Maybe a little off topic, but RB contracts are going to be a hot topic this year.
I feel like the RB position really took a blow when Brock Purdy went down.
If the 49ers managed to win and advance to the Super Bowl with the league’s highest paid RB, and CMC made a big splash doing CMC things (and the Niners possibly winning the game), I think the offseason conversation about RB value might have gone differently.
Instead, we had a Super Bowl where both teams went cheap at the RB position, and none of the recent winners have had a top back. And that’s been brought up in pretty much every conversation about the current RB market. How much different would that narrative have been if the Super Bowl had been The CMC Show instead?
I feel like the RB position really took a blow when Brock Purdy went down.
If the 49ers managed to win and advance to the Super Bowl with the league’s highest paid RB, and CMC made a big splash doing CMC things (and the Niners possibly winning the game), I think the offseason conversation about RB value might have gone differently.
Instead, we had a Super Bowl where both teams went cheap at the RB position, and none of the recent winners have had a top back. And that’s been brought up in pretty much every conversation about the current RB market. How much different would that narrative have been if the Super Bowl had been The CMC Show instead?
I don’t think so. CMC is an outlier. You can get guys in the draft or even undrafted.