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Chargers' Sproles barely eludes infamy

By Bill Barnwell
Football Outsiders

Monday, January 5, 2009

It seems impossible, but the player who did the most to improve his stock among football fans this weekend did arguably the single worst thing a running back can do with the pigskin in his hands. Everyone knows that fumbles are bad. Longtime readers of Football Outsiders know that fumbling the ball, even if you end up recovering it, is a bad sign because fumble recovery isn't a skill -- that is to say, there's no team year-to-year which recovers a consistently high or low percentage of the b ...

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