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Detroit Lions running back carousel: Eight is not enough in 2019

By Payne Schanski

DETROIT, MI - DECEMBER 15: Wes Hills #36 of the Detroit Lions celebrates a third quarter touchdown during the game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Ford Field on December 15, 2019 in Detroit, Michigan. Tampa Bay defeated Detroit 38-17. (Photo by Leon Halip/Getty Images)
DETROIT, MI - DECEMBER 15: Wes Hills #36 of the Detroit Lions celebrates a third quarter touchdown during the game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Ford Field on December 15, 2019 in Detroit, Michigan. Tampa Bay defeated Detroit 38-17. (Photo by Leon Halip/Getty Images) /
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Bo Scarbrough, Detroit Lions
Bo Scarbrough, Detroit Lions (Photo by Rey Del Rio/Getty Images) /

RB7: Bo Scarbrough

2019 Season: 4 games, 301 yards, 1 touchdown

Exclamation points: !!!!!!! (Bough Scarbro!!!! This guy can play!!!)

If Bo Scarbrough can get back on the field for like two more carries, he’s going to end the season as the leading rusher for the Detroit Lions. Pretty amazing for the 7th round afterthought on his fourth team in a year and a half, who didn’t get his first carry with Detroit until the season was already essentially over.

Scarbrough literally churns out yardage though, and was a revelation when he finally got his chance in the Dallas game. A Taylor Decker penalty (if I had a dollar for every one of those…) is the only thing that kept Bo from topping 100 yards against Washington, and even his worst game was still a respectable workhorse showing of 65 yards on 19 carries.

Bo is one of those guys who seems to fall forward for an extra yard or two on every carry, a luxury the Lions haven’t had consistently in a very long time. Out with a rib injury, possibly for the remainder of the season, I’m really hoping that we see Bo back with the Honolulu Blues for the 2020 season.

RB8: Wes Hills

2019 Season: 1 game, 21 yards, 2 touchdowns

Question marks: ??? ??? (Who??? How???)

Wes Hills started the Buccaneers game on Sunday about as close to a nobody in the world of the NFL as it’s possible to be. Thanks to a seven minute stretch midway through the second half, now he’s tied for the Lions’ team lead in rushing touchdowns!

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The cynical side of me needs to point out that both touchdowns were from a single yard out, he would’ve fumbled the second one if another yard was needed, and he only averaged 2.1 yards on the day in ten carries. That’s hardly the point though. Wes Hills is a feel good story embedded in two seasons that have been a vast majority of feeling bad as a Lions fan.

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