[Dante84]

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.

True, but Montee Ball is a self-proclaimed alcoholic and the sauce is what caused him to fall apart.