re: Why don’t more WRs move to RB?

RB is a position with an extremely short shelf life and extremely low on the food chain of money at the next level. Plenty of kids are choosing from an early age to focus on WR or LB because it’s a better path. Hard to convince someone to go in the reverse.

Half of the great Alabama or LSU LBers from this decade would’ve played RB 20 years ago.

I'd say the ONLY reason is vision.

WRs, from my experience, vision in traffic isn't that great. Busting through a line or dealing with tacklers at multiple angles just isn't their forte.

The best way I can put it is that it seems to be an inherent trait for RBs to 'use space', which could span the range from running over someone to bouncing away (like a WR) with alot in between.

A WR tries to 'create space' inherently. Which usually means moving away from a tackler, sometimes spectacularly. But it doesn't include that wide range of skills to 'take what space is there'.

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I think the question should have been, “Why don’t more RBs move to WR? Look at Josh Reed and Devery Henderson. To of LSU’s best WRs. They came to LSU as RBs.

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This right here.

The success we've had is RB to WR, defensive line to O-line.

I would like to see basketball players to tight end, but we don't need that right now with stud recruit coming in.

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RBs get beat the frick up and have relatively short careers. I don’t know why anyone would want to switch from WR to RB.

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RBs and WRs have almost exactly the same average career length in the NFL

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People move positions all the time in college though.

I’m expecting to see Jefferson in the backfield a couple of times against OU. Seen it at times throughout the year. He offers some reliable hands coming out of the backfield, and it usually creates a mismatch.

I played Diarse in high school and he certainly should’ve been a RB in college. The guy was tough as hell to tackle and had balance for days. He played QB for Neville

Eric Martin moved from running back to WR. So did Josh Reed...

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It’s a much easier transition going from RB to WR than the other way. A RB is going from where everything happens in a phone booth with very large humans trying to tackle you to where you are open in space one on one with a db.