Green Bay may have it's lead RB finally, in the person of James Starks. However, they will be sweating injury with every carry. Injuries to Ryan Grant, an underwhelming performance by Brandon Jackson, and finally an injury to Dmitri Nance has pulled James Starks up onto the active roster.

I'm sure that the Packers would have preferred to give Starks another year to develop physically, but the future is now. Starks is a more thin-framed RB, he is big at 6'2, 218...but is built more like a WR. At the NFL Combine in 2010 Starks bench pressed just 15 reps, which confirms more of his frame/strength issues. To further it more, Starks missed his entire senior season (2009) with injury and fought various injuries through out his career.

A quick briefing on James Starks:

• Star High School running QB
• Not heavily recruited, wound up at the University of Buffalo with new coach Turner Gill
• Changed from QB, to CB, to ultimately becoming a RB
• Wound up as the all-time career rusher at Buffalo, despite missing his senior season
• College stats against better competition:
• vs. Penn State as a SOPH = 41 yards rushing and 1 TD, 4 rec for 30 yards
• vs. Rutgers as a SOPH = 21 yards rushing , 1 rec for 13 yards
• vs. Syracuse as a SOPH = 62 yards rushing, 5 rec for 37 yards
• vs. Pitt as a JR = 97 yards rushing, 2 rec for 7 yards
• SOPH YEAR = 1,103 rushing yards, 4.4 ypc, 12 TD, 41 rec for 311 yrads and 2 TD
• JR YEAR = 1,333 rushing yards, 4.9 ypc, 16 TD, 52 rec for 361 yards and 1 TD
• Missed Senior season with shoulder injury
• Was a projected 2nd-3rd Round pick after Junior season
• 2010 NFL Combine invitee
• Very good speed/agility metrics, weaker strength metrics based on Combine results
• Fell to a 6th Round pick of GB in 2010

Starks will definitely get some people excited, but given his inexperience and crowded backfield in GB...I wouldn't rush head first into this pickup. Deeper leagues with 12+ teams and bigger rosters may want to take a flier on him to see how he develops. 2011-2012+ is probably more where he will materialize to steady productivity, if he does.

 

 

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