Overrated/Underrated Redskins

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Originally Posted by SirLK26

Explain to me how Clinton Portis is overrated. He's one of my all-time favorite NFL players, any position, so you really hurt my feelings by insulting him. Just kidding.

But, really, explain it to me. For his career in Washington, he had 6,824 yards, 46 TDs, and a 4.1 avg. When he was healthy, he averaged 1,395 yards a season. 9 TDs a season. And a 4.2 average.

And that is just stats. That's not saying anything about his locker room presence, his example setting, even his stats beyond running. A HOFer in my books without a question. I love Alfred Morris and I'm a huge fan of his. But given the choice between Alfred Morris and a healthy Portis, the choice is so obvious...

I know Morris broke Portis' single season rushing record last year, but if we had had Portis with this good of a team, instead of the crappy teams he had to put up with, he would have gotten over 1,800 yards, possibly broke Dickerson's record. Did he have a problem with staying on the field? Yes. But that takes very little from his legacy as one of the greatest running backs of ALL TIME.

Well first let me say that CP his first year here was great. Also CP was a GREAT blocking back. But considering that we got rid of an all pro CB in Champ Bailey for him, that is one point i need to make. Because we re basically saying that a RB is as good as a CB, and that Portis was as good if not better to Gibbs in his eyes than Champ Bailey was. But had we of known how to draft we would have been able to get a back as good if not better than CP.

Another thing to point out about CP is that he wasn't that game changing speed/break away back like a Chris Johnson, AP, McCoy, Jamal Charles is. He had one long TD run in his whole career. The money we paid him at that time said to me that he was a top 5 back, parts of his career you can argue that, but for a majority of his Redskins career he was more of a top 10 back in my eyes. Which is still good, but not Great like others say he is.

Health is another problem he had. He was out of the league before he was 30 I believe. I know RBs careers are short, but his seemed even shorter. The last four years of his career starting when he was 25-26, the injuries really caught up to him.

Just remember that a player being overrated doesn't mean he's bad, it can also mean that he isn't as good as the hype, but he can still be very good.

I think Clinton was a very good back at times, but there was a time that people talked about him as if he was hall of fame worthy. He also had a pretty big ego, letting the whole face of the franchise get to his head at times. His costumes were kinda funny and different, but I didn't really think much of them other than the other great backs in the league don't need to dress up in drag or wigs to get attention.

Ill also say that I'd take Stephen Davis in his prime over Portis in his prime.