Yes, good people who love football, we have officially hit the doldrums. Actually, forget about hitting the doldrums; we’re instead attached to the depths of the activity pool with the strongest Gorilla adhesive.
Hey, that’s just life in the digital content game of the National Football League. Once the NFL draft ends, the dip begins en route to the brutal month of June — before the highest of training camp highs arrives in late July.
Count Breece Hall in on the “looking for something to discuss” party. The New York Jets running back recently showed love to a fantasy football legend.
Hall, 25, re-posted an Arian Foster-focused X post while calling him a “smooth operator.”
Breece, who was but a mere 8-year-old when Foster strapped it up for the first time in the NFL, couldn’t help but admire the highlight package. For good reason, too.
From 2010 through 2012, Foster put up diabolical numbers.
His 1,616 rushing yards and 16 touchdowns on a 4.9 yards-per-carry mark immediately thrust him up the fantasy football draft board the following season. The fact that he also went for 604 yards and 2 more touchdowns on 66 receptions is just icing on the already obscene cake.
By the time the 2010 season had concluded, the fantasy football world had a new star. Considering he went undrafted in 2009, he seemingly appeared from thin air.
In 2011, he did it again, eclipsing 1,800 scrimmage yards and 12 total touchdowns in just 13 games. In 2012, he upped his rushing mark to 1,424 and a league-leading 15 touchdowns op the ground.
Interestingly, it makes sense for Breece to highlight Foster’s on-field abilities; the two are stylistically similar in some ways.
Both guys are far from short — a common characteristic for this position, which demands a lower center of gravity. Both also seemingly glide on the field, sometimes exuding an effortless way about them, despite their very real zooming pace.
Breece Hall is coming off the first 1,000-yard rushing season of his NFL career. Whether or not he can improve upon that, and thus cement himself as the fantasy football player so many in the industry always felt he would be, hinges on the much-needed support the New York Jets must provide.
