Last year Dallas had the 4th best ranked O line (according to PFF), Pitt had the 12th best, Jacksonville had the 15th. Take Bell or Fournette, put them behind our O line and give the ball to them several more times per game than almost every other running back and I would expect them to have similar success and yards to Zeke. As I’ve said, way too many variables, just glad we have a great O line and RB because if our O line sucked we wouldn’t even be having this conversation.
Just like Barkley this year, I fully expect him to have less yards than Zeke, Bell and Fournette because even that revamped Giants O line is putrid. That won’t mean he’s not as good or better than any of them. There’s only so much a RB can donwhen there’s nowhere to run which is why he had 39 yards on one play that he had to create on his own and averaged 1 ypc on the others because he was swallowed up. Zeke, Bell, Fournette wouldn’t have fared much better.