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For NFL running backs, free agency market is active but still a tough bargain

New year, same sticky business when it comes to NFL running backs.

They are still prone to get the short end of the league’s gold-plated money stick.

Look at Aaron Jones. After making his mark as one of the best running backs in franchise history for the Green Bay Packers, he’s ticketed to be a Minnesota Viking now.

Yeah, those Vikings. The ones the Cheeseheads would call a dreaded division rival. At least Jones, who moves with a one-year, $7 million deal that becomes official when the NFL’s free agency market officially opens on Wednesday at 4 p.