Rookies Taking Over Older Football Players Positions

May 2015

Just like spring cleaning, each NFL team needs to clean house and strengthen their team, which is why we have the Draft. This means that the older football players will have to start watching out for their positions as the start of the season is getting closer. Rookies will always have something to prove, especially if they were selected specifically to take over for a well-respected player.

A few of the players that were picked up during the 2015 Draft that were selected to replace someone on the team would include:

POS	Rookie	Player Being Replaced	Team
DL	Owamagbe Odighizuwa	Cullen Jenkins	New York Giants
RB	Tevin Coleman	Devonta Freeman	Atlanta Falcons
OLB	Alvin “Bud” Dupree	Jarvis Jones	Pittsburgh Steelers
RB	Todd Gurley	Tre Mason	St. Louis Rams
DE	Randy Gregory	Jeremy Mincey	Dallas Cowboys
DL	Leonard Williams	Muhammad Wilkerson	New York Jets
RB	David Johnson	Andre Ellington	Arizona Cardinals

It is always great so see how players react when their position is in jeopardy, and we usually get to see great things during their final seasons. Rookies may be fresh, but some lack the experience that older football players have, so we may not see as many replacements this coming season, but rather in a few years.