It’s hard to determine whether or not LeGarrette Blount was ever called the train before he joined the Philadelphia Eagles in 2017. Still, any Eagles fan will always remember the call as Merrill Reese screamed ‘A runaway train… A runaway train’ when Blount broke one against the Los Angeles Chargers in what felt like a west-coast home game at a soccer stadium.
Despite an Eagles roster that featured Wendell Smallwood, Darren Sproles (for two weeks), Corey Clement and, eventually, Jay Ajayi, Blount emerged as what seemed like head coach Doug Pederson‘s and running backs coach Duce Staley‘s favorite.