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The Year of the RB

By By Bruce Feldman

Wednesday, September 18, 2002

Remember how everyone was saying this would be The Year of the QB? Well, one month in, we've found out we were all wrong. It's actually The Year of the RB. More specifically, it's become the year of the battering ram. So forget the Golden Boy types of Rex and Dorsey and Casey and Eli and focus on the roughnecks -- Derrick Nix, Maurice Clarett, Cecil Sapp, Greg Jones and Willis McGahee. Led by this fivesome of 230-plus pound guys with quick feet and teeth-rattling style between the tackles, th ...

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