Chris Johnson in the slot

"He also mastered the art of shaking off leg tacklers."

that's news to me.

 

I doubt it gets used often, but every now and then i expect it

 

Part of why we didn't see it in the preseason may be that CJ turned out to be a much better between-the-tackles runner than most were expecting.

 

We'll use him all over the place, much like the Saints do with Reggie Bush. You can bet he'll get a number of snaps lined up wide.

 

i think im gonna have to bump him up from 1000 yards combined rushing+recieving to 1200 or 1300 in my prediction... hopefully he lives up to what we all expect out of him.

On the original topic, we're all pretty sure the only reason we saw vanilla stuff was because it wasn't the actual season. I agree with SK, he'll be our Reggie Bush, hopefully even better though.

 

I don't see why this is a suprise to anyone. CJ is the fastest player on the field everytime he steps on it. If Dinger doesn't utilize CJ in the slot he should be fired. Especially since we have zero reliable hands. But I fully expect CJ to be used everywhere.

 

.. I agree that it will be very interesting what we plan on doing with CJ. We weren't given much in the preseason as in the way of plays for CJ but I was very surprised of how many balls he dropped. All this talk about him being really good out of the backfield then he drops like 4-5 passes in preseason. Not dogging him but just a thought.

 

In the slot he is out of his element. It's harder to get him the ball and he has less favorable matchups.

As a receiver he is best in the typical RB role catching screens, flares and dink and dunk passes. Those passes give him some room to run facing the defense as opposed to running routes in the open field where he can get his head taken off.

Keep using him like we did in preseason.