LeGarrette Blount - Lost and Found

LeGarrette Blount, the football player that everybody seemed to loved to hate and hated to love. A big bruising back (look at his play against GB below):

who has surprising agility, see him here against the Cardinals:

and against the Falcons:

and finally against the Seahawks:

The first three years of his NFL career looked like this:

Career Stats Season	Team	Games		Rushing					Receiving					Fumbles
		G	GS	Att	Yds	Avg	Lng	TD	Rec	Yds	Avg	Long	TD	FUM	Lost
2012	TB	13	0	41	151	3.7	35	2	1	2	2	2	0	--	--
2011	TB	14	14	184	781	4.2	54T	5	15	148	9.9	35	0	5	3
2010	TB	13	7	201	1007	5	53	6	5	14	2.8	7	0	4	3

His number dwindled each year, but the talent remained the same.  Had LeGarrette remained in TB, he might have been lost to us forever.  Enter the Patriots and a breath of new life for LeGarrette.

The other night, LeGarrette had over a hundred yards, half coming on this play:

Anyone who watched LeGarrette run at Oregon, knew then he was a big back that was quite comfortable running over people.  At the 'pro' level, the nay-sayers were saying that he wouldn't last, that nobody wanted him, and that his style of running would be 'taught out of him'.  His rushing performance against his old college coach, should be more than enough to answer questions about what he can and can not do.

LeGarrette is uniquely situated at New England to show the football world what Bill Belichick has always known and when the trade came to fruition, Belichick was quoted as saying:

"It's not like he hasn't performed well in this league before. We traded for a player that we thought was a good player. It's no shock he can run the ball. We all know that he did a nice job (Friday) night."

Some in the main stream media has argued that LeGarrette numbers have a down side story, that half his yards came on one run.  

Okay, let's go with that.  

His long run was 51 yards of his total 101 on 11 tries.  That would leave 50 yards on ten tries or an average of 5.0 yards a touch.  That's top shelf any day of the week and to use the cliche`, twice on Sunday.  Those kind of numbers keep you on the team and in the game.

LeGarrette is on track to be revitalized and not surprising to either Belichick or Ducks fans, he could have a monster year.