Why would any parent push their child to play RB?

The parents don't always have a say-so, and a lot of running backs were raised by a mom or grandma that doesn't take into account things like earnings per position.

The best athletes play QB or RB in youth sports, the culture of winning at that level is long and deep rooted. "Hey, this kid can fly, let's put him at corner and totally negate him from any action"

You don't see youth coaches with that mindset

And despite the knowledge that a kid can make more money if he's a good corner, kids still want the glory. Running backs get to score touchdowns and get their name in the paper

Up until college, a lot of these guys are playing on both sides of the ball and on these lower levels you put you stud at QB or RB.

Once they are being recruited, a lot of these players don't want to give up the ball. They see it as a demotion to play LB.

If this was true everyone that isn't a 5 star or high 4 star RB would do it by college

How many of these kids switch to RB after the potential of playing at a higher level is displayed? Not many I'd presume, as youth coaches into High School are going to put their best athletes at the positions that garners the most opportunity to win.. RB/QB are those positions in youth football. Id be willing to bet that most WR's played RB at some point in lower levels only to move to the WR once their full size was realized and or the team had a better RB.

I understand the point, but RB is the glory position. I remember playing youth football, no one would care that I had 5 pancakes and 5 tackles while playing both sides. But my rb friend, everyone would be in love with him because he scored three touchdowns. That is just the matter of the game.

If we are being honest. About 95% of football players want to play the offensive skill positions. Eventually most give that dream up. (Lineman realize they're too fat, DB's realize they can't catch and don't like getting hit, and LB's realize they have absolutely 0 vision.)

Usually by college this sort of thing weeds itself out. Everyone who is not in their best position will usually end up changing. But, that is not always the case.

With all due respect, I think you lawyers sometimes get caught up in everything being 100% about money

With everyone on this board complaining about how boring football has gotten, can you imagine if we started playing the most athletic skill kids at every other position and the least athletic at RB?

Let's talk about how boring that would be

Cant throw well.
Cant catch.
Has terrible hand eye coordination.

Reggie Bush made decent money in the NFL but I've wondered how good of a cb he could have been with his size and speed.

I would never encourage my kids to play rb, neither are rb size anyway.