The stock market isn’t the only thing crashing right now.
NFL free agency has seen running backs (all of them, except for maybe a few) as a collective and colossal loser, which is starting to match how the data views them in terms of importance in winning football games relative to the quarterback position.
It started when the Arizona Cardinals were able to not only unload David Johnson’s lucrative contract to the Houston Texans, but somehow receive DeAndre Hopkins in return. Instead of paying Johnson $13 million over the next 12 months, they’ll have Kyler Murray throwing footballs to the game’s best wide receiver.