Ronnie Brown's Profile at Pro-Football-Reference

RBBC

The 'Fins have their RBBC entering the final years of their respective contracts in '09.  Ricky Williams is 32, but because of his love of the sticky does not quite have 32-year old mileage.  Ronnie Brown is young at 27, but has not proven he can handle a full load at either the college or NFL level.  There have been no signs from the Dolphins front office of a desire to extend either back before their contracts are up.  Why would they?  Ricky Williams has probably 2-3 one-year contracts left in him, and Ronnie Brown is only one season removed from ACL surgery and will be forced to prove that he is worth a many million dollar investment.  This is the perfect scenario for fantasy owners to realize a return.

Truth in Numbers

Ronnie Brown bulls beware; he is not an every down running back... or at least not so far in his career.  You would think at 6'0" and 230 pounds that he could handle a full load.  He split carries throughout college with fellow pussy, Cadillac Williams, and has yet to crack the 300 touch mark in his four years in the league.  The numbers he put up in '08 are a bit misleading.  The 1,170 yards on 247 touches are serviceable.  The ten TDs are impressive, up until you realize that he scored seven of them in the first five games of the season when teams were still looking for their "Wildcat" playbooks that were buried in storage.  He did nothing in the 2008 fantasy playoffs against three weak defenses.  In fact, he has never registered a TD in his career in the month of December.  Do we play to make the playoffs, or play to win in the playoffs?  Guys who can't produce because they are tired in December are worse than useless.  They get you used to playing them all season, then drop a nice set of dog balls on your forehead when the season is on the line and leave you right between the hawk and the buzzard.  Torturous.

2009 Fantasy Outlook

For all of the venom we just spewed about this guy, we think he can produce solid returns on draft day 2009.  Contract years tend to have that effect.  All Ronnie needs to do is condition himself this off-season ("Ronnie Brown showed up to camp in the best shape of his career" rumors are rampant on fantasy newsbreaker sites all over cyberspace), hope not to get injured, and rack up about 1,400 total yards and he is looking at a 20 million dollar contract.  NFL GMs still don't get it.  This doesn't ensure that he will stay productive for 16 games, but if there was ever going to be a season he pulls it off, this is the one.