The top free agent running backs rarely end up living up to their contracts, so APC proposes an alternate strategy and target for Green Bay to embrace this offseason.
There are good running backs, and bad running backs, but in free agency, nearly all running backs are bad running backs - especially the good ones.
That may sound like Lewis Carroll-esque gobbledygook, but it is largely true. Accomplished running backs often fetch indefensible prices in free agency, as the position is simply not worth very much. If you do delve into this market, the place to do it is often older, one-cut-and-go power backs or specialists - by which I mean pass-catchers and blitz-pickup guys.