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Some thoughts on “The Titans shouldn’t pay Derrick Henry because paying running backs never works out”

There has been so much talk about what the Titans should do with Derrick Henry’s contract. The majority of that discussion centers around the fact that traditionally playing a running back huge money hasn’t worked out. It has been pointed out #nofreeshouts (h/t @BussinWTB) that the top 5 current running back contracts are all with guys on teams that weren’t good in 2019. Those include:

People want to use those contracts to prove that tying that much money up in a running back makes the overall team worse. I have 2 arguments against that:

The first is that those teams listed above are bad for reasons other than the money they are paying their running back.