The good: It was short lived, but when Ameer Abdullah and Theo Riddick were a healthy 1-2 punch for Detroit’s run game, it thrived. Unfortunately, that was a reality for just two games. Detroit totaled 116 yards and 137 yards, respectively, on the ground the first two weeks of the season before Abdullah was lost for the rest of the year with a foot injury. He was averaging 5.6 yards per carry when he went down.
“It’s frustrating when you sit in my seat that you build a team and then you have your starting running back go down in the second week of the season,” GM Bob Quinn said last week.