Mark Ingram centered on how decisive he looked as a runner, improved he looked as a receiver, comfortable he looked in the New Orleans Saints offense and imposing he looked as a back carrying around 215 pounds packed muscularly onto a 5-foot-9 frame?
Rinse it off and repeat it this year, with this addition: He’s more confident now that he has done a fraction of what he always knew he was capable of doing.
After three spotty, sometimes injury-interrupted seasons in which he ran for a combined 1,462 yards and 11 touchdowns on 356 carries in 37 games (an average of 487 yards and four touchdowns on 119 carries, in 12 games), he broke out last year with 964 yards and nine touchdowns on 226 carries, in 13 games.