No confirmed reports and won't hear anything from coaching staff until after practice but twitter is buzzing. Anything from a leg injury to waiting for MRI results and fear he will miss entire season is what I am reading. Not good news.
Beat me to it. Welp, Cordarrelle Patterson and Tarik Cohen at running back in the event that Pelissero is wrong and Monty didn't avoid the serious injury. Should FA become necessary it starts with Devonta Freeman. Problem is, dude's best years are behind him. The Skins just cut a promising young kid Guice--but he's probably banned for a while. Allegedly choked his ladyfriend unconscious back in March leading to his release then got hit with two rape accusations spanning back to 2016 while he was at LSU. Otherwise, Spencer Ware, Bilal Powell, and Isaiah Crowell round out the FA's who had even a moderate slice of success in their career. Ware's the best fit. Played with Nagy, has starter's experience (2016 his best year).
So he slipped at the beginning of a play when Mitch was gonna hand off to him. And he walked off under his own power. And was then carted back for evaluation. Not as bad as it nearly sounded I think. Or I hope.
I would argue Montgomery is our most talented offensive player behind Robinson. This would be bad. I haven't stressed about anything NFL-related because I didn't think the season was going to successfully happen, but this is the first time dread is creeping in. I really hope he's okay.
Leonard Fournette is now available after being cut by the Jags. His style certainly doesn't fit Nagy's schemes. He's also a bit of a diva. But I'd still take a chance on him.
Entirely reasonable. Can see that going south in the lockerroom really quick when Nagy runs the ball 7 times in a whole game. Fournette wouldn't be quiet there... Also, it's kind of a red flag that Jax coach Doug Marrone told reporters today that "we couldn't get anything for him, a 5th, 6th, or 7th round pick." That's telling for a 24-year-old halfback coming off a 1000+ yard season averaging over 4 ypc (who also caught 76 passes last year for over 500 yards). It also seems moot because today the bears just signed 2020 undrafted free agent Napoleon Maxwell from Florida International at RB.
While Monty's injury is only 2-4 weeks I would still want them to sign someone because a bad groin injury can linger all year long.
Well, assuming Monty isn't ready for next week, seems like Nagy is going to ride it out with the Cohen/Patterson combo at RB. This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone given how Nagy has previously demonstrated a willingness to go large chunks of time without establishing a run game. The position is just another receiver.
Yeah i guess during his end of season deep dive self scout Nagy concluded that running was the ball 7 times a game was not part of the problem and he should keep doing that. But who will get the 4th carry and therefore be the "lead back", Cohen or Patterson? Oh the excitement.
