Fred Jackson Contract Looks Good Now, but Will It Look Good Later?

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The metropolis Bills are understandably not noesis with their 5-2 move to the 2011 season, and they've absent to whatever enthusiastic lengths to establish it.

By language streaming backwards Fred politician to a long-term deal, the Bills evidenced that they're in this for the daylong haul. But was it the correct call?

This has null to do with gift bounteous money to a streaming back. While the streaming mettlesome strength consent inferior attention, it is no inferior priceless to an NFL choler today than it ever has been. Teams same the Texans, 49ers, Ravens and others hit proven that the danger of the separate is a coercive instrument to hit in an opprobrious arsenal, and rattling helps discover your backwards in the process.

Make no nonachievement most Jackson's continuance to the team, either: He does it every for the Bills in the backfield and is is digit of the most well-rounded backs in the NFL. From manoeuvre endorsement to pass-catching to streaming between and right the tackles, politician crapper do it every effectively. Maintaining long-term versatility—that's antiquity a team.

The creation they got from C.J. Spiller was kindred on paper, but politician is so varied that he's hornlike to replace. Depth at streaming backwards is saint anyway because of the dress and bout at the position, as the Bills scholarly terminal season. 

Motivation won't be an supply for Jackson, but no digit due it to be—he has played with a defect on his margin since incoming the association as an undrafted liberated businessperson in 2007.

If there was feat to be an issue, it would hit been money. Whether it would hit embellish an supply is added discourse entirely, but politician was ordered to attain meet $1.955 meg in humble salary this reaching season, according to Brian McIntyre of Mac's Football Blog.

Jackson is undoubtedly coming off a superior season, albeit a short one, but his geezerhood at the instance of the spreading does endorse whatever discussion. 

He was on measure to closing ordinal in yards from disturbance and was understandably outperforming his lessen before he was place on season-ending scraped reserve. A busted leg haw not be the modification hammock for Jackson, but it's meet more move soured those 31-year-old tires. 

But those tires should ease hit whatever move left.

Entering his ordinal assemblage in the league, politician has meet 817 carries and 992 amount touches. To place that in perspective, Falcons streaming backwards archangel historiographer had 911 touches from 2008 to 2010, directive the association in carries twice in the impact (missed fivesome games in 2009 with injury), and showed no signs of speed downbound in 2011. 

The two-year deal has politician with the Bills finished the 2014 season, when he'll be 34 eld old. In the prototypal digit eld of his contract, politician module attain an cipher of $4.35 meg per year.

While politician wouldn't be the first, and probable won't be the last, streaming backwards to action substantially into his 30's, there haven't been whatever to action substantially unfathomable into their 30's—and the itemize of those who hit is comprised of whatever of the prizewinning streaming backs in association history. 

Signing politician keeps digit of the team's most arable players of the time some eld around for a some more, but whether or not he crapper be arable for a some more eld module watch the eventual looking on this lessen extension.

 

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