Ever eaten a rice cake? That’s Addai’s game. Ok, so he’s fast; that’s about where the pluses end. He cannot break tackles, his solution for every play is to bounce it to the outside, and his field vision is sub-par. His rushing average has dipped over a ½-yard in each of his first three seasons. Addai never carried a full load in college, so we remain mystified as to why Indy spent a first rounder on him. He was stuffed as much as any back in the league in ‘08… on split carries! He was stopped for negative or zero yards 18 times on 155 carries, and to put this in perspective, in ’08, Thomas Jones had 290 carries and was only stuffed 15 times. As a final nail in the coffin, Addai plays his worst football in December – that’s right, during the fantasy football playoffs. Check it:
He plays on a great team with the second best QB in the game and a strong offensive line. Those are the only reasons he managed the stellar numbers he did in ’07. It doesn’t take much to punch the ball in from the one yard line with Peyton manning under center.
