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INDIANAPOLIS — For a long, long time, the NFL’s archetypal running-back tandem was built on power and speed. A bruiser and a burner. Thunder and Lightning.
From the great fullback-halfback tandems of the ‘60’s and ‘70’s — Jim Brown and Bobby Mitchell, Jim Taylor and Paul Hornung, Franco Harris and Rocky Bleier — to Mike Alstott and Warrick Dunn in Tampa Bay, Ron Dayne and Tiki Barber in New York, all the way to Chicago’s Jordan Howard and Tarik Cohen now, backfields have been built around deploying two backs with very different styles together.