It doesn’t seem like many question his credentials. I thought more would question his HOF chances but his stats speak for themselves I guess.

The all-position all-post-1970 era stat that Pro Football Reference is working on has Edgerrin as the 40th best player of the last 37 years and the 5th best runningback of that period.

I think Edge’s poor postseason play and the Colts not winning a title are related but not Edge’s fault. The Colts ran him and ran him and threw to him and ran him all regular season then when they leaned on him in the playoffs he had nothing. He topped 369 carries and 430 total touches in both his first two seasons before blowing out his knee in his third year. After a relaxing 330 touch season to recover Edge was back to nearly 400 touches a season for the rest of his time in Indy. The Colts rarely spelled James during the season so come playoff time after ~400 touches of his pounding fall forward style he had nothing left.

Look at James’ first two seasons. He was on pace to be an all-time great. The Colts did him and themselves a disservice by overworking him so badly. He lost his explosiveness after the knee injury. His long runs just stopped. They seem to have learned there lesson, they are keeping Addai’s workload at a more sustainable level and have 3 possible backups on the roster with Rhodes, Hart and Keith.

Since he almost never broke long runs after his knee injury, 4.1 career YPC means that he consistently moved the chains. He didn’t get the long runs that make up for getting stuffed by YPC. One 40 yard run and 9 runs for no gain gets 4 ypc but kills drives. 10, 4 yard runs is what makes long scoring drive possible. Football outsiders success rate is a great tool to use in combination with YPC to pick out the boom and bust runners.