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with the rookie contract the way they now are, i dont think any position outside of specialist should be off limits even as high as 1 (so no kickers, punters or long snappers)
buttttttttttttttttttttttt, having said that, pro bowl RBs selected outside of the 1st in each of the last couple drafts (kept it to just guys who made the pro bowls.. so no blount or dion lewis, for example):
2008: matt forte (2nd round), ray rice (2nd round), jamaal charles (3rd round), justin forsett (7th round), clifton smith (UDFA)
2009: shady (2nd round), cedric peerman (6th round), arian foster (UDFA)
2010: chris ivory (UDFA)
2011: demarco murray (3rd round)
2012: alfred morris (6th round)
2013: leveon bell (2nd round), eddie lacy (2nd round), latavius murray (6th round), cj anderson (UDFA)
2014: devonta freeman (4th round)
2015: david johnson (3rd round), jay ajayi (5th round)
2016: jordan howard (5th round)
2017: hunt and kamara (3rd round)
gotta assume lindsay and chubb got great shots at making the pro bowl from this last draft
problem with RBs, as exemplified above, they aint long for the league or that level of play even if they're good.. plus the value you can get later on.. just a rinse and repeat position
I dont disagree that you can find values at the running back position in later rounds, but that can be said for every single position in the NFL. Here is every single running back drafted for the last few years.
The last few years we have been blessed with some Incredibly deep running back classes, but even then, later round picks are a damn crapshoot. For every alfred morris there are 20 players who barely played a snap
For every leveon or chub taken in the second, there is a bishop sankey and jeremy hill