Red Zone Play: Carlos Ain’t Hyde’n No More

Photo by Alex Davidson/Getty ImagesAt 6’0” and 238 lbs, Carlos Hyde is built like the prototype tailback for Bill O’Brien’s establish the A-Gap and dominate the run game offense we’ve witnessed the last 6 seasons. While Hyde was just a rookie in O’Brien’s rookie year of head coaching at the NFL level, between March of 2018 and the day he was traded to the Texans for Martinas Rankin, Hyde played in Cleveland, Jacksonville and Kansas City.

So far this year, Hyde has racked up 704 rushing yards, the third highest total of his career. At this rate (granted, the 160 yard breakout last weekend against the Jaguars skews this a little), he’s on pace for 1,251 rushing yards this year, by far his best…