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Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr
You think the NFL would look just the same if the top 130 rb's were suddenly out of the picture?
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It wouldn't be the same, but it would be significantly closer than it would be if any other position group was removed. Teams have consistently said they would rather have RB #45 at $2M than RB #10 at $10M.
The handful of recognizable stars like Henry, McCaffrey, and Barkley would be missed, but most of those guys have missed a ton of time over the last few seasons anyways. Teams would look around for the non-union guys who can plug the hole well enough to get by and roll with that. Think about a guy like James Robinson who came out of nowhere as an undrafted player, rushed for 1,000 yards, then tore his ACL and is currently unemployed. He will probably kick around for a couple more years, but he was effectively done by the time he was 24. Or Thomas Rawls who had basically the same arc (he didn't make it to 1,000 yards before he got hurt. There are dozens of quality college running backs that would jump at the chance to play in the NFL even as scabs and probably enough of them could play well enough to break a union pretty quickly.