Player Review: Lance Ball

by shake n bake on Jan 6, 2009 2:00 PM EST Comment 5 comments

Ball spent only one of 17 weeks on the Colts active roster, but he made that one week count.

Games	Carries	Yards	YPC	TDs	Rec	Yards	Fumb	Lost
1	13	83	6.4	0	1	5	1	0

via www.colts.com

Future Contract Info Unknown, he made 1/17th of a rookie minimum salary this year.

88 yards in 14 touches against the Titans backups week 17, is promising. 6 yards per touch can't be ignored even if it wasn't against top competition. Obviously it's too early to project anything from cleanup duty in a meaningless game, but he justified his existence on the fringe of the roster. Ball showed promise, but if Mike Hart is able to return healthy and Dom or Edge return, Ball will have little chance of making the roster and may not make the practice squad as a 5th RB.

Update: Here's a scouting report on Ball since we only saw a little bit of him.

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I was hoping

I was hoping and bugging my friend the entire game that they should’ve given him a shot. I honestly don’t think we could’ve rushed it less effectively than we were doing if we tried. May as well have tried to put this guy in and see if he could’ve sparked something. And I think you’re right, unless Hart and others have a setback I’m not sure if we can justify keeping him on the practice squad. But he would definitely get my vote for having a cool name. I think he should legally change it to add an s at the end. Then play him so the announcers have to keep saying “Balls!” throughout the game.

by monstersbox on Jan 6, 2009 3:29 PM EST reply actions 0 recs