Who's The Worst Redskins RB Of All-Time?

I wouldn’t put the Timmmah in as the worst RB ever (not even sure he belongs on this list to be voted on!) but other than the playoffs that year (yeah, he was outstanding the whole playoffs that year), he did SQUAT. The next year he was supposed to be the featured back and I think he ended the season with something 470 yards, way underachieving for us with a 3.0 yard per carry average, only 3 TDs, and only 53 yards recieving in 14 games (and he wasn’t hurt). His longest carry was 29 yards and his biggest reception was 16 yards.

In his rookie season, during the REGULAR season, he got some time, too… he played in 7 games, carried 29 times for 126 yards, 4.3 yards per with one catch for -2 yards in the regular season. His longest regular season carry was only 15 yards, but he was consistently decent (4.3 was Riggos ypc during those years, too, but Riggo could sometimes explode well for longer carries).

He downright SUCKED for Dallas, playing only one game, with 6 carries for 6 yards, with 3 on one carry….not good even on an AWFUL Dallas team.

Where he shined was the playoffs; in 1987 he played all three playoff games for us, and had three of his four longest carreer runs (that 29 yarder he had in 1988 was his fourth longest); he was 16 for 66 yards (4.1 ypc, with a long of 13) against the Bears, 13 for 72 (5.5 ypc with a long of 34, his second longest carrer run) against the Vikings; actually not all that good if you take the one long run out, but he was effective), and of course he had his superbowl game, his “perfect game” with 22 for 204 (9.3 ypc), a long of 58 yards (his third longest was 31 yards, IIRC, also in that game), 2 TDs (40% of his carreer TDs) and one reception for 9 yards. For the postseason, he was 51 for 342 yards (6.7 ypc) with 2 TDs, and obviously 1 for 9 yards in recieving.

He was the featured back through the entire Playoffs, but was NOT the featured back much during the regular season; that honor went to George Rogers; Timmy was slowly working his way in as a change of pace for the fading (fast) Rogers, and techically, Smith had a better year all around, thouigh he gained fewer yards and of course had less TDs (Rogers had injuries and only played 11 games, but still way out carried Smith and ended up with 163 for 613 (3.8 ypc) with a long of 29 for the season, and 6 TDs, adding in 4 receptions for 24 yards. Even in the Playoffs, Smith had to share carries with Rogers, who had 23 carries for 76 yards (3.3 ypc) with a long of 9 and 1 TD, plus 1 for 11 in receptions) Rogers best game came against Min, where he was 12 for 46, though he got the TD against Chicago. Rogers has a poor 5 for 17 (3.4 ypc) with a long of 5 in the Superbowl.

So basically, Timmy was number 3 of a tro that season, and was slightly more effective than the fading Rogers (the Superbowl was Rogers last game) statistically (BTW, Kelvin Bryant was the #2 guy, 77 carries for 406 yards (5.3 ypc) with 1 TD). Heck, our best guy on a per game basis was one of the scrubs, Lionel Vital, 80 carries for 346 yards, (4.3 ypc) with 2 TDs…. but then he’s a trivia question, since I don’t believe he played ever again after the scrub games (and of course, now you know why we were 3-0 in the scrub games….)

Randall FREAKING Cunningham had more yards from scrimmage rushing than Bryant and Smith, BTW.

So, Timmy showed promise, and had one great game, but I’d nominate Vital as a better RB than Smith for his career; we wouldn’t even remember Smith if not for that Superbowl… and he got his ring for that.

can we throw in another draft pick to get his knee back to 100%?

Redskins: TJ Duckett- Sucked
Falcons: Ashley Lelie- Sucked
Broncos: Ryan Harris- Sucked, sorry Skins fans, he’s just not that good