I remember you and I both posting advanced stats for years from years ago during his prime that showed he was like underperforming expectations, but quite a decent margin...but ppl love their fav players. He always seemed a me-first player in spite of accolades to the contrary about his blocking, etc. That feed-me thing was just annoying. Wanted to love the guy, but I maintain more than a few RBs could have put up similar numbers behind those early lines and that is recognizing how historic his performance was, but moreso how great those lines were. I think you posted something about his number of runs over 40 yards is so far down the bell curve of statistically likely, something like 5 in 2000 carries.
Now I hate on him more than I should as he's just an avatar for the current state of the franchise. And I'll also suspect Garrett didn't do him any favors, but I just imagine there were so many 50+ yard runs, or even 10-20+ left on the field.
I will say this - his negotiations skills were definitely top-5 worthy and good for him - hopefully he's just sitting on that bag and can enjoy life.