right got lucky the season ender was in the season ender but, its bad injury.. he would have missed 3 months if we needed him but that rest of the game without him was effected by his injury so it mattered more than 1 season game.
Compared 3 months vs what could have been an ACL or Achilles tendon.
Pollard injury did not come up until that point. And he's not Thanos, he can be physically hurt like any other RB, even the very well regarded RBs that have their
share of injuries.
But what is important now that Pollard is the clear front runner starter, is that we do everything in our very power not to contribute matters that could lead to potential injuries,
..meaning how to best distribute and rationalize touches and reps among our RB unit to lessen the wear 'n tear toll on Pollard.
And BTW, since you're hypothetically mentioning the " what if he missed 3 months if we needed him " ... that is exactly why you really need the reserve backs to be very
capable of filling in and have some kind of effectiveness to be factors in a game.
Of course, the reserves will not be on the same level of skill set as Pollard, but do they anything in their own skill set to where they have something to where they can be effective
enough on some sort ?
Other backup reserve examples:
- if Nick Chubb out … could Browns resort to Kareem Hunt or D’Earnest Johnson
- If Packers Aaron jones is out … AJ Dillion ?
- If Chiefs Isiah Pacheco is out, .. could backup Jerick McKinnon ?
- If Ravens JK Robbins out ,,, Gus Edwards ?
- If Davin Cook is out .. Alexander Mattison ?
- Exit Miles Sanders ('22) ,,,, enter Kenneth Gainwell or Boston Scott ?
- When RB McCaffrey was out (per Panther final dayz) .. enter D’Fonta Foreman
- Ditto David Montgomery out … enter Khali Herbert