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Given new HC Chan Gailey’s desire to employ high-character players, there have been rumblings that Lynch could be shopped around on the trade market. Speaking at the NFL Scouting Combine, Gailey dodged the question, not addressing whether Lynch could be traded, instead choosing to praise the player and talk about what he hopes the running back can offer the team in 2010. “Marshawn is an excellent football player,” Gailey said.
Reported by Pro Football Weekly
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Lynch, who has had some legal troubles in recent years and was suspended to start the 2009 season, played second fiddle to Fred Jackson last year. Jackson rushed for 1,062 yards in ’09, compared to 450 yards for Lynch, a former first-round draft pick. Gailey went on to suggest that having two solid backs might be his preference. "’m not so sure that today it doesn’t take two quality guys to get you through a season," Gailey said. "Players are getting so much bigger and faster and stronger that collisions are bigger every year and it takes a couple of guys. ...” Gailey is right. And Jackson and Lynch are certainly a quality pair.
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