Originally posted by thl408:
Originally posted by YACBros85:
I am not as worried as some folks are about Trey running. People like to point out that guys like Deebo and Kittle get hurt a lot because of the way they play the game. I will argue against that. A majority of those injuries to guys like Deebo and Kittle have been from when they were put in vulnerable situations like Kittle getting rolled over on in the backfield while run blocking. Or Deebo and Kittle catching late passes from the uh uhm QB and getting smashed. I don't think I have seen Deebo get injured once while laying the wood on defenders. Hit them before they hit you. Now I don't expect Trey to play with rekless abandon but he has shown some toughness and he is just as likely to get hurt in the pocket a la Jimmy.
Part of his skillset is what he brings to the running game, so I don't mind him running as long as he's able to protect himself. So far, I don't know if "slide" is in his vocabulary. When he dives at the feet of a defender, that's fine too. When he tries to truck downhill safeties, at some point, that's not going to end well.
That hit by the safety in the Texans game that everyone brings up. It really wasn't as bad as people make it out to be. He turned away from the hit, toward the sideline. He didn't try to truck him.