Jordan Howard has become the favorite of Chicago Bears fans everywhere in the past six months. Everybody loves an underdog or a Cinderella story. Howard is a little bit of both. A quiet young man from Alabama, he hoped to forge his football legacy at the University of Alabama-Birmingham as their featured running back.
Despite an outstanding 2014 season, his entire career was jeopardized when the football program at UAB went belly up. That left him without a team to play for. In the past some young men were forced to switch their entire future plans to something different when that happened. Howard held out hope he could rescue the moment.
He transferred to Indiana and worked his way into the starting lineup. There he became their offensive focal point. His play earned third and even second round grades from some draft experts. However, people were skeptical. He ended up falling to the fifth round were the Bears scooped him up. Even then people didn’t realize what Chicago had gotten.
Now the final stats are revealing it, and they’re staggering.
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