If running back pay is ever going to rebound, this is the year.
The team that carries the NFL’s biggest contract at the position played in the Super Bowl. The draft is lacking, with perhaps the best tailback in this year’s class rehabbing a torn ACL and without a real first-rounder to be found in the bunch. And the free-agent group, now untethered from franchise tags, is loaded with well-pedigreed bellcows.
