When looking at the graphic for face value, Tony Pollard's DRBR scores don't look all that bad. In the dynamic areas, he scored over 60, which is okay. But for Tony Pollard, it's actually pretty awful because he's become accustomed to scoring well into the 70s and even the 80s in his dynamic scoring since coming into the league.
Last season, Tony Pollard had two things working against him. The first was his return from a broken leg the year prior—that takes some time. You're not going to have a whole lot of juice right away, and you have to build yourself back up. But number two was just the way he was used in Dallas because he's not one of those running backs that you line up behind center 15 times a game and run him up the middle between the tackles. Get him outside, get him in open space, get him working in the passing game—all things he did very well when Zeke was the starter and he was the backup. His efficiency was really, really good in the touches that he was getting. Then last season, they changed his usage, and the efficiency went down.
Now he finds himself in Tennessee with Tyjae Spears, who was significantly better in all of his dynamic categories from last season. These two running backs have got to be looking at a true 50/50 split. I really don't see one getting significantly more touches than the other. Yeah, Tony Pollard got the contract, but Tyjae Spears has the better moves right now. So even if we see a 50/50 split to start, I don't necessarily think we get to a point where we're talking about a 60/40 in either direction. Maybe Tony Pollard gets to 60% just because of his contract, but if Tyjae Spears keeps up with him in terms of his efficiency and he's doing more with less, Tennessee is going to start to give him more and more touches.
Honestly, when I take a look at these scores and everything involved with Tennessee this year, I'm staying away from both of these guys because I believe it's going to be a truly, truly horrendous headache. Now, both of them scored well enough in the dynamic section that absolutely they could end up being fantasy viable, but I think we're going to have a tough time telling which week that would be.
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