Portis: The Ultimate Team Player

[Southpaw]

Originally Posted by onlydarksets

Even if we are grossly overpaying him? What's the point of paying $6 million a year to do the job someone else can do for $1 million? That said, I think Portis brings more than YPC, and I think he is worth the money.

What does he have to do to earn his money? Be LaDanian Tomlinson? Portis may not be having a Pro Bowl year as far as numbers go, but he is one of only a handful of complete tailbacks in the league. He's probably the best blocking tailback in the league, he can catch out of the backfield as good as anyone, and he is still a home run threat.

People are trying to compare him to Tiki or Shawn Alexander, but if Portis had the holes to run through that those two do, he'd have similar numbers. And for those of you who think we should've picked up Alexander instead of Portis, you need to watch more Seahawks games. Alexander is a pure edge runner. Not at all a Gibbs style runner. Notice when they played Washington, he was completely ineffective running between the tackles. His only substantial gain came on an edge play.