I began to work on this piece before the Jerick McKinnon injury. Neither McKinnon or Matt Breida showed anything this preseason to really wow me. You would read practice reports every other day about how explosive everyone was, but then when the lights came on the preseason, they all seemed to be wearing concrete shoes. Then everyone got hurt.
Enter Alfred Morris, signed halfway through the preseason in what seemed to be an after thought. I always liked Morris, even from his Washington days. Back then I knew nothing about Kyle Shannan, outside of the fact that he was the son of a great coach and coordinator.