AMERICAN FOOTBALL is dedicated to excess: more drama, more hype, more impact. But one aspect of the sport is diminishing rather than increasing: the role of the RUNNING BACK (RB).
RB has long been one of the game’s marquee positions, the player who takes the ball in the backfield and has to find a way through the wall of defenders in front of him: “run to daylight” as legendary coach Vince Lombardi said. But running full tilt into half a dozen behemoths with GBH on their mind can be injurious to
