Tuesday, September 18, 2018

TRADE 1: Big Burly Man Fish

We finally have a swap! Old trading partners Pawnee and Phoenix renew their bus route, swapping running backs (and throwing in a linebacker) to close week two's action.

PAWNEE ACQUIRES RB RASHAAD PENNY & LB DE'VONDRE CAMPBELL
PHOENIX ACQUIRES RB DERRICK HENRY

An exchange of these hulking running backs was in discourse before week two began, but ultimately required another round of tape before coming to fruition. All three players are of the big and fast variety, emphasis on big: De'Vondre Campbell is 6'4" and 234 lbs, Derrick Henry is 6'3" and 238 lbs, and Rashaad Penny is only 5'11" but weighed in at a whopping 236 at training camp.

All of these players are in pivotal years in their development; In his third year, Henry is expected to challenge for more of a bell cow role, though at the moment he's more of a thunder component to a thunder/lightnign dynamic. The Uprising will hope he bumps his touches north of 20 in coming weeks; With Reuben Foster returning from suspension in week three, the team had an abundance of linebackers, and Campbell was the odd man out.

He'll fit in nicely with a Pride team that has seen almost no production from veteran edge rusher Ryan Kerrigan. Campbell's elevated role (following his batterymate Deion Jones being placed on IR-DTR) and ever snap skill set should bump up the floor for a team coming off a narrow defeat. Penny is also a nice fit; He joins Chris Carson on the Pride, handcuffed together for the time being. Ultimately Pawnee might prefer to see one RB cede carries to the other, but locked in a timeshare they've hedge their bets in supplementing their rookie RB1 Saquon Barkley.


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