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Originally Posted by tk13
Andy Reid has a long, long 20 year track record of drafting RBs in the middle rounds of the draft and turning them into stars.
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This is actually completely false. More myth and hyperbole than fact.
While Reid definitely hit on a few guys throughout the years, his "Hit Rate" is clearly not exceptional:
2000-6 Thomas Hamner
2001-4 Correll Buckhalter
2002-2 Brian Westbrook
2004-7 Bruce Perry
2005-3 Ryan Moats
2007-3 Tony Hunt
2009-2 LeSean McCoy
2010-6 Charles Scott
2011-5 Dion Lewis
2013-3 Knile Davis
2014-4 D'Anthony Thomas
2017-3 Kareem Hunt
2019-6 Darwin Thompson
Westbrook, McCoy and Hunt (before the incident) are his best selections by a long shot. But during that time, the Chiefs hit on Larry Johnson and Jamaal Charles, two players that were clearly in the upper echelon of NFL running backs despite spending the majority of their careers on very bad football teams.
This isn't an indictment of Reid but does prove that he's always searching for quality running backs, even if he has a better-than-average starter.
Again, this isn't an indictment of Reid but he's not a "RB Guru" of any sorts.