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Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath15
I'm not sure who's usage (or lack of) confuses me more - Thornhill or CEH.
Most of us were salivating at the thought of this kid being the centerpiece of Andy's famous screen game, taking on the Westbrook role.
Last night - zero targets, zero receptions.
There are games where Andy just forgets to run the ball - and there are games where he completely forgets to utilize the screen game/CEH in space.
It's maddening.
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There's gotta be a reason for it.
The thing that had most people excited for CEH wasn't his rushing ability - it was his ability to operate at a high level in the passing game.
And not only do we not utilize him in the pattern like we thought we might (a poor mans Leveon Bell), we don't even use him in the screen game. We just don't use him in the passing game.
Part of that may just be that typically a play that goes to the HB in space is designed with him in mind and when you have Hill and Kelce, why bother? But if you're not gonna use your 1st round picks biggest strength, why'd you draft him to begin with?
But really, it's all mitigation at this point. He's a bad pick. If we are able to use him in the passing game to make him a less bad pick, great. But he's just not a dynamic enough runner to have been a 1st rounder.