It is easy to lose a skill position player or two when you have guys like Joe Burrow, Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins headlining an offense.
However, FOX Sports’ Colin Cowherd sees a major diamond in the rough that most outside of Cincinnati are overlooking. He claims that running back Chase Brown is “the best running back in the NFL.”
Lets get this out of the way first. I think Brown is quite good, and he has been on a pretty good year going back to last season. He still needs to do a bit more before
I’m putting him ahead of guys like Jahmyr Gibbs and Saquon Barkley.
He could absolutely be looking at being in that tier in a year or so. Maybe even after this season. He just needs to show he can keep this up relatively consistently.
I mean the Cincinnati Bengals are betting on him. They changed their offense to put Burrow under the center more. That is partially to help keep their quarterback from hopefully getting hit as much as well as keep a more unpredictable offense. But they wouldn’t do this if they did not believe that Brown was a running back who could handle a bigger role.
We will see where he sits at the end of the season.
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