In this video, we are breaking down five running backs that I believe the market and everybody talking

about them has the wrong opinion on and here's why. And we'll start with Tony Pollard. Now,

this could be their wrong because they're too high or they're too low on the guy. I just think

that the opinions are maybe a little bit group think everybody saying the same thing and just

believing it. But for Tony Pollard, I think people are wrong on disliking him to the amount that I'm seeing in drafts right now. And let me address the concerns because they're valid. Last season, his first season has the full-on starter in Dallas,

and he didn't do too great. You can see right here, Pollard only average 4.3 yards per touch,

according to player profiler. That ranked 44th in the NFL. And if you're familiar from past

seasons, he was always right around a top 10 player in these metrics. His juke rate, which is how often he's breaking a tackle per carry, just 38th in the NFL, which, you know, is below average in terms of starting

running backs or just running back seeing around 40 to 50% of the snaps. So what changed for Pollard?

Well, there's the obvious fact that with Ezeko Elliott gone last year in Dallas, Pollard saw a

larger workload. And when you see more touches, you're just going to become naturally less efficient over time. But maybe there's something else that can account for

Pollard's bad season. Like it came out of nowhere. It's not like this guy was getting older and that's

something could be an injury. Because Pollard did end up having ankle surgery, tight rope surgery,

to be exact, at the beginning of the year. This was in January of 2023. You can see right here is when the article was written. So he had surgery in mid to late January on his ankle. And now in general, if it's a clean recovery and

everything goes right, he should have been back in like four to six to eight weeks at most.

And by all accounts in the preseason in camp, everything seemed to be fine. But maybe if it

wasn't physical pain that he was feeling, There was some sort of mental issue going on with Pollard. Surrounding this injury specifically because at the end of the year when it was like

Super Bowl Week and there was a bunch of media, he did a couple of different interviews and in one

of them he said that he felt lost a little bit when it came to just figuring out how to explode his

explosiveness as a running back after that tightrope surgery. We've heard a lot of quarterbacks have this, but they don't rely on expulsiveness as much as a running back will. So this is some good information that we got from

Pollard after the surgery. And if that's how he was feeling, there's a mental component. Maybe there

was a physical component. It wasn't rehab properly. It just wasn't back to full strength in time to

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