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Originally Posted by RealSNR
He's not really an Andy Reid-type back. If you only give him 10-15 touches a game, he's not going to be that productive.
It can be argued that James White is the most productive back to come out of Wisconsin in a long time, and it's because he does a lot of things really well, including just being a talented ballcarrier. Ogunbowale isn't quite as versatile as Clement, and as a RB he shows some nice stuff, but a lot of the big plays you see him create are because his OL gives him holes that a sumo wrestler could run through.
That's always been the issue with Wisconsin RBs is you never get a chance to see what their productivity will be like when blocking is not as generous in the pros, even behind pretty good OLs.
Yes, Melvin Gordon had a lot of speed and pretty good vision. He's kind of making it work okay because (when healthy, at least) he's good in the passing game and has improved a lot as a blocker. Montee Ball was a much bigger workhorse than Gordon in college, but look how his NFL career ended up.
We'll see. He could have a nice career for a team, but I don't think Andy Reid is going to look at Ogunbowale's body of work and see the versatility he wants out of his RBs.
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That wasn't really true, especially in 2015. Their line was really young and kinda sucked ass. It was still quite young this year, with the only real improvement being the addition of Ramzcyk