I hope I'm wrong, but if history (or rather, the last twenty-five or so years of it) is any indication, any evidence of Hillis' success will be qualified—in the media—in a way that discredits his talent or athleticism (ie, weak opponents, beginner's luck, the Black runningback is better even though all empirical evidence says otherwise, etc.). Any White male success ANYWHERE has to be given the proper spin, so that colored people, women, DWFs and **** (the latter two are usually one and the same) can comfort themselves that "I could do anything the White man can do—I just don't want to, or was not given the chance because White men are so racist ..."
As great a player as he is, it's an insult to the White race for the NFL to merely "tolerate" a White runningback, as if Hillis is the only one halfway decent enough to play the position. As if allowances have to be made to lower the bar, so that he can play (injuries to "actual" [Black] runningbacks).
There are some who could be among the better TBs right NOW (Hillis, Gerhart, Hester, jump to mind), and I'm sure there are others.
The regular DWF comment that Affirmative Action is necessary in the workplace because "equally qualified" (yeah, right) muds are the victims of the Good ol' Boy network, but professional sports are a purely merit-based concept, is truly delusional.
Professional sports might have been at one time a meritocracy, but now it's a political soapbox, too, which is why Whites can never really make inroads at runningback because Blacks have flipped on their inner-toddler switch and decided that it's "their" position. Same with quarterback, which is why Blacks will continue to increase their number in that position regardless of whether or not vastly superior White quarterbacks rot away on benches or free agency or never get on a roster at all.
I fully expect for the NFL to eventually include female players at some point, along with the corresponding sissification of the rules, and perhaps gay pride days where sodomites can molest each other as part of some grotesque halftime show.
As time goes on, though, I also expect that a growing number of Whites will become sick of this nonsense and either stop watching the NFL as it currently stands (the Negro WAAA-GIMME-THIS-GIMME-THAT-I-KNOW-WHITEY-IS-BETTER-BUT-LET'S-DO-THE-SECRET-HANDSHAKE-AND-PRETEND-HE-ISN'T organization), or demand that the rules change in a manner that in some way turns out favorably for the screwed-over Whites.
Honestly I think that when Whites are no longer the dominant race, our numbers in professional sports might actually increase as Whites stop being afraid of being called racist, and use their innately superior intelligence to fight a guerrilla war against a crumbling infrastructure being maintained by obviously inferior people.
This of course assumes that professional sports will still exist, and that the whole world will not implode in a conflagration of unbelievably cretinous Black and Brown stupidity.