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I'll admit, I wasn't stoked on Henderson right away but that was mostly because I didn't know much about him (and my emotions were more tied to what I imagined this could mean for Gurley's enigmatic knee). I'm certainly getting more pumped with what I'm seeing and reading now and I can't help but compare him (matchup-wise) to Tavon Austin.
It does seem like one of the things missing from the offense last year was that jet-sweep threat. Sure, we used it out of 11 personnel with WRs but it never had the dynamic threat that we had when Tavon was there.
Henderson seems like he could offer the explosiveness of Tavon with surer hands (and maybe with time, better route running - that wouldn't take much even for a RB).
When McVay talked about scheme flexibility - aside from lining the guy at at RB to spell Gurley - this was what I was thinking.
It does seem like one of the things missing from the offense last year was that jet-sweep threat. Sure, we used it out of 11 personnel with WRs but it never had the dynamic threat that we had when Tavon was there.
Henderson seems like he could offer the explosiveness of Tavon with surer hands (and maybe with time, better route running - that wouldn't take much even for a RB).
When McVay talked about scheme flexibility - aside from lining the guy at at RB to spell Gurley - this was what I was thinking.