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Originally Posted by scooper
Wrong, actually. Ki-Jana Carter ripped his knee to shreds on his first carry of his first pre-season game. He did not play at all his first year. He did play a few seasons beyond that, but his knee was never the same.
It's hard to tell if his career would have been a bust playing behind a terrible offensive line with little skill position help, but his "busting" can just as easily be attributed to injury as Emtman's.
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Like I said, I didn't pay close attention to Carter's career. Given that info, I'd say there are similarities to Emtman in that it's hard to evaluate how much of his suckiness in the NFL was due to injury and how much was due to being over-rated. The one difference here is that Emtman had (I believe) 9 games in his rookie season before he had his first knee blowout, and he was pretty damn good for those first 9 games.