Who misses this young version of a RB?

[kskboys]

He had covid, but he got his bag, and was no longer hungry.

Which has nothing to do w/ losing his burst.

 

[rambo2]

He should've had the same production and longevity as Derrick Henry and almost finished with a Hall of Fame career. It's unbelievable how he fell off the cliff.

He probably had a bad diet and put alcohol in his system. Henry has a strict diet and doesn't drink.

 

[stag hunter]

lots of different theories in this thread and pretty much all have some validity — definitely not just one reason for the decline. Honestly didn’t recognize him in OP’s clip, forgot he was ever that svelte.

They put a lot of miles on him in those first few years, shame they didn’t end up with any hardware to show for it.

 

[stag hunter]

Doubt it.

He had almost 1,500 touches in his first four years in the league. It was totally unsustainable.

Remember reading a while ago that pretty much any time an RB hits 370 touches in a season, they are due for major regression the next year.

Regardless of lifestyle factors, training, covid, etc, he was never going to be the same player after shouldering that kind of workload early on.

 

[Thomas82]

Wow. I never thought about this, K. Thinking about it, now, it makes sense. Is it true that Zeke got the Corona virus? If so, how many times and during what years/seasons?

It was 2020. He never looked right that whole season.

 

[Thomas82]

I agree that Covid took away some of Zeke's burst. But to me, the 2 biggest contributors to his sudden fall-off were a combination of him not taking care of his body and seeking out contact instead of trying to avoid it.