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Cedric Benson wins FedEx Ground Player of the Week; comparing his season to Rudi Johnson's franchise-setting season in 2005

One could argue that Cedric Benson won the FedEx Ground Player of the Week award because he did it against a team that hadn't allowed a 100-yard rusher in 39 straight games. With 27 carries, Cedric Benson recorded 120 yards rushing and a 28-yard touchdown. The touchdown, in the closing minutes of the third quarter, gave the Bengals a 10-7 lead over a heavily favored opponent. In Baltimore, no less.

Benson, the NFL leading rusher, has recorded two 100-yard rushing performances this season, three touchdowns with a season-average of 4.4 yards-per-rush. In five games this year, Benson hasn't recorded less than 74 yards rushing, and fell below 4.0 yards-per-rush in one game (Denver). Rudi Johnson holds the franchise record for most yards rushing in a season, rushing for 1,458 on 337 attempts and 12 touchdowns in 2005. Below, we compare Rudi Johnson's franchise setting season to Cedric Benson's season this year.

  Cedric Benson (2009) Rudi Johnson (2005)
Yards 487 464
Carries 111 110
Touchdowns 3 5
Yards/Rush 4.4 4.2

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i would argue ced’s season so far is more impressive than rudi’s in 2005. for one thing, this offensive line, at least coming into the season, was considered patchwork whereas the 2005 line was considered to be one of the best in the league. for another, rudi was coming off of a franchise-record-setting season, but ced is considered to be a reclamation project. i expected ced to be a hell of a contributor this season, but i didn’t expect him to be the offense five games in.

i'm going to go america all over your ass!

by Raging Clue on Oct 17, 2009 1:16 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Let's here it tommorow

Rudy Rudy Rudy Ced Ced Ced

by featherman on Oct 17, 2009 2:01 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Note to Cedric

Don’t get the bright idea of dropping 20 pounds this offseason.

by bodacio on Oct 17, 2009 4:59 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

i’ll drink to that.

i'm going to go america all over your ass!

by Raging Clue on Oct 17, 2009 6:13 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Working on the drinks now

I hope Ced doesn’t try to shed 20 pounds to become an outside runner…besides, we have Bernard Scott for the outside stuff if Brat gets his head out of his ass and stops trying to run him up the middle.

by Danimal, Destroyer of Worlds on Oct 17, 2009 10:40 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Cedric Benson is who the bengals needed... who knew!?

This is the most bizarre football team in NFL history. Absolutely no reason to think that such a clusterf*** of has-beens, never-was, and where’d-he’go’s would be leading the AFC North. No better rep of our team than the soft-spoken, laid back University of Texas Running Back, Cedric Benson. If you think about outside the 275 Loop, UT has an even more dubious reputation of great talent that never produces at the highest level (in this case, going from College to the NFL) than the Bengals do. Going to grad school here in Austin, I can tell you that the bengals are both blessed to have QUAN COSBY AND Cedric Benson. The talent on this team from Austin, Tejas has played against the top talent for years, but Austin is just a bit different than Cincinnati (having lived in both, but in Cincy for a dozenplus yrs more). I think Ced thought Chicago was a bigger Austin where everyone was down with winning, but didn’t see thebusiness side of this thing. Now he does, and he was put in a situation with no pressure (pure Austin- relaaaax. think matthew mcconaughey with all the lady-killing, plus the talent) , and he really just blossomed in that.

Quan Cosby on the other hand was a top student in school after having made his first $100,000 as a minor league baseball player. He went back to school, excelled in Sociology, brought awareness of economic injustice and social equity concerns across the city and has always been the finest gentleman in the public eye at all times. He is our Marvin Harrison+Wes Welker+TJ Houshmanzadeh.

by Yaccub Fleishcman on Oct 18, 2009 2:53 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

i would subtract tj from your final equation there. tj was never one to be the finest gentleman. he’s actually kind of always been a douche.

i'm going to go america all over your ass!

by Raging Clue on Oct 18, 2009 10:44 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

From another perspective:

TJ’s pretty much a douche.

Note to TJ…good job stomping on the Towel. Douche move. Crazy to say it, but you’re better off with Chad Ochowhateverhewantstocallhimselfbecauseit’sallgayanyway.

"If I could start my life all over again, I would be a professional football player and you damn well better believe I would be a Pittsburgh Steeler." -- #58

by __.58.__ on Oct 19, 2009 3:31 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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