It's not only NFL general managers who don't want to hand out big-money contracts to running backs.
In a player survey conducted by The Athletic, one player said he "would never pay a running back" if he was a general manager.
"I know that running backs complain about the market," the player explained. "But from an insider's perspective, if I was ever a GM, I would never pay a running back. There's a lot of talented backs that come out in the draft every year—at any place in the draft. I would never draft a running back in the first round.