I think it is no secret that I am most concerned with the lack of opportunity for white running backs. When 2/3 (at least) if star high school running backs are white and then, magically, they are deemed not good enough for college (and then the few that star here are deemed not good enough for pro ball) it grinds my gears.
While whites have made headway in the wide receiver position, slow as it may be, at least we’ve seen growth of multiple guys hitting 1k yards over the last decade or two in Decker, Welker, Nelson, Thielen, Kupp, etc.
On the slip side, only two white running backs have been given the chance for enough rushes to show what they are capable of in Hillis (for one year) and CMC.
There have been a few players get some carries like Woodhead and Burkhead, but more often than not a talented white man is relelgated to getting shuffled on practice squads or inexplicably cut altogether (see treatment of Nall and Funk and Borghi). On the rare occasion a talented running back is made to switch to fullback to block for the “real” athletes (see Janovich, Hester and Horvath, for example).
I get so pissed of about this.
