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Running Back · Detroit Lions

Jahmyr Gibbs

No. 0 · 4th season

Year four, and Detroit might finally hand Gibbs the whole thing

There's a moment in every running back's career where the team stops managing them and just lets them run. For Jahmyr Gibbs, that moment might be now.

Gibbs has spent three seasons with the Detroit Lions building toward something. Heading into year four, the expectation is that Gibbs could take on a true featured-back role — the kind where a team leans on one player to carry the load from the first quarter to the last.

That's a different ask than what most young backs get early in their careers. Teams protect their investments, rotate players, manage touches. Handing someone the full workload is a statement of trust.

If Detroit is ready to make that statement, Gibbs is the one they're making it about. What he does with it is the whole question.

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