Should Philadelphia Eagles Consider Ryan Mathews over DeMarco Murray?

October 16, 2015   ·   Andrew Kulp   ·   Jump to comments

When a team signs the reigning NFL rushing champion in free agency, as the Philadelphia Eagles did in March, the expectation is he’s being brought in to carry the load. When the player in question is awarded $21 million guaranteed on his new contract, per Spotrac, typically that cements his status as the workhorse.
But the Eagles complicated matters—perhaps unnecessarily—when they went out and signed a second feature back simultaneously, a two-time 1,000-yard runner himself.
And now that the so-called No. 2 is moving the football much better than the No. 1, the team finds itself in a bit of a bind.
Should it continue to feed DeMarco Murray carries when he’s significantly less productive or promote Ryan Mathews and risk creating a rift in the locker room?
Obviously, the situation is a little more nuanced than that, but that’s the basic gist.
Whether it’s because Murray is still feeling the effects of his grueling 2014 campaign...

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