A player sat out a whole year before?
edit--after some googling
I guess Eric Dickerson is the closest comp for a handful of games but that was in an era where stud RB meant a lot, now it's just that's nice and Bell isn't much better than everyone else in the league. Hell he's not better than Conner as a runner on Pit. (receiver sure, runner nope according to the STATS)
Chancellor got owned more than anything on his.
The others were draft picks, your Bo Jackson (this is a pretty epic lol bucs story on it's own), Kelly Stouffer (eventually traded)
Dallas caved for Emmitt after a couple games but only b/c they lost and were in the super bowl window.
idk, there's just so many teams that won't be interested whatsoever
Generally holdouts have a statistical decline. I think it's more or less simply running backs don't produce that ridic level very often ever again--that list who did in recent memory is basically adrian peterson.
http://www.nfl.com/photoessays/0ap20...stical-decline
maybe it's just me making the typical extrapolating mindset error as I wouldn't touch Bell's demands with a ten foot pole even if I needed a RB as a NFL team.
Jarmarcus held out but that's because he didn't want to play football.
Sean Gilbert in 1997 is the closest similar situation--the redskins traded the 6th overall pick for him (rams took lawrence phillips with this lol)--franchised him and he promptly sat out a year, got franchised again, NFLPA ruled they couldn't do that, Carolina signed him and had to fork over two first round picks. (one of which was later traded for the entire draft + more for ricky williams) Gilbert performed solid but he was never the dominant force again.
I didn't know that entire draft for williams saga had dominos to it, washington had to majorly **** up a trade to get that offer in the first place. Later they moved the second pick with their own for the 3rd overall in that 00 draft they also had the 2nd overall. And became a oh right they did nothing with all of that.
Last edited by wheatrich; 11-19-2018 at 04:04 AM.