Philip Rivers 'Pulling for' Melvin Gordon in Chargers RB's Contract Holdout - Rob Goldberg
"It certainly is a deep position for us, and those guys all love to play and work hard," Rivers said in July, per Matt Szabo of the Los Angeles Times. "We love Melvin, but we're going to go with what we've got. It's a pretty dang good group."
Austin Ekeler is Alvin Kamara-in-Waiting: How Season-Long Game Script Affects Running Back Production, Part 2 - Ryan Collinsworth
On top of that, Ekeler and Kamara also share eerily similar workout metrics, both with above average size-adjusted speed and elite explosiveness.