vin.couve12":1ykqjvdp said:
Y'all probably missed the part 2 weeks ago where Pete said that if they had Davis last year then he would have started?
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If they had a ham sandwich on the roster last year, he would have had a chance to start at RB.
Heck, they had Farmer, Magee, Pope, and McKissic at one time or another.
About Farmer, Carroll had this to say
“George has been my special project for some time now,” Carroll said. “He’s played a few different positions, and that’s because he’s such a talented athlete. He’s a really good competitor. He has a good mind for it, he’s handled the things that we’ve done with him. All along, when we drafted C.J. (Prosise), we looked at him and said George can do the same things that he could do. We’ll see if that works out. We really like the player, and I think you’re going to see he has a lot of versatility.”
After Carroll made that statement, Farmer played one game, had no runs, and snagged 1 catch for 4 yards before being cut then signed to the practice squad.
So you can't really use what Carroll says as a reliable metric on who really has a chance of making the team and staying on it.