Running backs have been an oft-discussed subject here at Buffalo Rumblings over the last calendar year. The Buffalo Bills, under head coach Sean McDermott’s tenure, seem to maintain a strained relationship with running the ball in its most traditional and basic form.
You’d be hard-pressed finding someone who doesn’t believe this to be true, even if they acknowledge that the Bills found success on the ground last season (2,232 total yards) in fielding the seventh-ranked rushing attack. That’s because Josh Allen is an elite dual-threat quarterback who makes up for Buffalo’s lack of production out of traditional running sets, with 3,087 yards on the ground in his young career — including 763 and 762 yards each of the last two seasons.