Sox-n-Hawks":10qidspi said:
Bleacher Report says Seattle made the 8th worst pick of the draft. I hope they're wrong.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...om&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorial
What is says about Barkley rings completely untrue though. The list of high picked RBs runs pretty good
OJ Simpson
Earl Campbell
Barry Sanders
Eric Dickerson
LT
Marshall Faulk
Tony Dorsett
Walter Payton
Gale Sayers
All hall of famers that were picked in the top 5. More than a quarter of RBs in the HoF were picked in the top 5. Then you also have Jim Brown, Marcus Allen, Larry Csonka, John Riggins Jerome Bettis among others picked in the top 10. There are probably others among the older players (particularly pre-superbowl era) that were also picked high that are in the HoF that I'm not aware of.
Plenty others who maybe didn't have transcendent careers but were still very good players, Jamal Lewis, Edgerrin James, George Rogers
And then the likes of Bo Jackson, Billy Sims, who had short careers due to injury but were "tilt-the-field" players when they were on it.
So basically what I'm saying is if you want a Hall of Fame running back you need to pick them early or you've got practically no chance, so this BR article is not worth reading... I never even got to the bit about the Seahawks pick