You can see how fast a player is ("Damn, Best is fast!") or how powerful or disruptive a player can be ("They're double teaming Suh and he's still in the backfield!")
One thing I learned from watching so far is that the offense is completely different when Jahvid Best is in the game as compared to anybody else.
Whereas you cannot downplay the improvements made in the game of The Franchize, it is not hard to see that Best has to always be accounted for. This is both good and bad for the Lions.
Why?
Because Best, in his entire career, has never gone a full season without missing time with injuries. Even leaving out the youtube sensational highlight reel of his final concussion, which would have knocked anybody out (and was a very poor and unnecessary choice by Best), he had suffered other concussions and has had foot, hip, and elbow injuries.
Keeping Best healthy will be a monumental task for a team that needs him out on the field pretty much 100% of the time.
This fact is the main reason Best was not a much higher draft pick. Now people can point out that Best is in fact bigger than last seasons 2000 yard rusher, Chris Johnson. They can also point out that he has moves like Barry...but in fact, he's built a lot more like Marshall Faulk, and has a very similar skill set.
Let's hope he can perform anywhere near those he's being mentioned with...but more importantly, let's hope that he can stay on the field, because the Lions had another back just a few years ago that many said would be the next great Lions back. He was named Kevin Jones and he's already out of football with bad knees. Kevin Smith came next, but he's also run the same ACL injured course as Jones and he now sits behind the current savior, Best.
Can Best buck the trend?
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