Jonathon Brooks: Rising Star Running Back for Panthers
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00:03 Let's start the running back.
00:04 Where do you wanna go?
00:05 - Yes, projections and expectations.
00:07 That's what we're talking about here.
00:08 We have to start with Jonathan Brooks.
00:10 Now projections are gonna be very calm
00:13 when it comes to Jonathan Brooks,
00:14 the running back from Texas,
00:15 who is a terrific talent drafted by the Carolina Panthers.
00:18 People will say Miles Sanders is ahead of him.
00:20 We got other guys ahead of him in the depth chart.
00:22 I don't care.
00:23 The best running back in that room is Jonathan Brooks.
00:25 He's coming off an ACL tear that happened in November.
00:28 So he should be starting to work his way up here
00:31 in August into September.
00:33 And at some point, Jonathan Brooks
00:35 is gonna take over this backfield.
00:36 I wanna go back a few years ago
00:38 to David Montgomery's rookie season,
00:41 to DeAndre Swift's rookie season,
00:43 to Jonathan Taylor's rookie season, right?
00:45 To all these rookies we've seen the last few years.
00:47 How about just last year with Jameer Gibbs?
00:49 Do you remember when everybody wanted to get rid
00:51 of Jameer Gibbs in October 'cause everyone was pissed off
00:54 that he wasn't getting as much work as he should have?
00:56 And then what happened?
00:56 The rest of the season,
00:57 Jameer Gibbs was winning people championships, right?
00:59 You have to have patience with rookie running backs.
01:02 This is the perfect storm where the best rookie running back,
01:05 the guy that Dallas Cowboys wanted
01:07 and they got sniped here in the draft
01:09 and then didn't know how to recover from it
01:10 is Jonathan Brooks.
01:12 So Jonathan Brooks is gonna go late in redraft leagues.
01:14 People are gonna see him buried on the depth chart.
01:17 I don't care.
01:18 This is the guy you want for the last six
01:20 to eight weeks of the season.
01:21 So you have to draft him, you have to have patience.
01:23 But I'm telling you, Texas' Jonathan Brooks is that dude.
01:25 He's that guy who's a three down running back
01:28 and eventually he will take over this backfield.
01:30 The new head coach, Canellas, he's a really good coach.
01:33 He saw him last year in Tampa running that offense
01:35 with Rashad White.
01:37 Think of Jonathan Brooks as a much better version
01:39 of what you saw in Rashad White
01:40 and that's a reason to get very excited.
01:43 However, you look at the numbers and projections,
01:44 they're very reasonable.
01:46 Why?
01:46 Because nobody knows exactly how much he's gonna play
01:48 or when he's gonna take over,
01:50 but 698 yards, five touchdowns,
01:52 that's scratching the surface of what he can do.
01:55 And if you factor in to him doing that
01:57 over a six week span towards the end of the season
02:00 or eight week span even,
02:02 all of a sudden we're talking about a guy
02:04 that is gonna be very useful.
02:05 So instead of going early draft capital and running backs,
02:08 start with guys like Jonathan Brooks.
02:10 I think it's gonna be a much safer path.
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