Packers Running Backs: James Starks or Brandon Saine?
Could Packers RB Brandon Saine be on the team over James Starks in 2013?
I just recorded a podcast on the Packers running backs with my colleagues Jason Perone and Marques Eversoll. One of them, I can’t remember which, asked an interesting question: Will Brandon Saine make the Packers roster over James Starks?
Saine missed most of the 2012 season after blowing out his knee. He...
Packers James Starks: 2012 Player Evaluation and Report Card
1) Introduction: After missing his entire senior season at Buffalo due to injury, James Starks fell to the sixth round of the 2010 NFL Draft. The Packers stashed him on the PUP list to start the season before activating him for their week 13 game against the San Francisco 49ers. Starks was the Packers’ starting running back during the team’s run to the Super Bowl in 2010. But...
Report: Packers might lose James Starks for the season
According to ESPNWisconsin.com, Green Bay Packers running back James Starks suffered a significant knee injury during this past Sunday’s win over the Vikings that he could be placed on injured reserve and miss the rest of the season. According to an NFL source, Starks was later diagnosed with a knee injury, suffered during Sunday’s 23-14 victory over the Minnesota Vikings, and...
Packers News: Starks may be out for season
Packers RB James Starks
Jason Wilde of ESPN Wisconsin is reporting that running back James Starks may be out for the season with a knee injury.
Starks has battled numerous injuries dating back to his college days at Buffalo. He was forced to sit out the Packers’ first five games of the 2012 season with a significant turf toe injury.
But since returning to the field, Starks has...
Quick Thoughts From Green Bay Packers Pre-Season Game One
Football season is here!!
Oh wait….it’s just pre-season football. Well it’s better than nothing.
My issue with pre-season games is that the first game is usually pointless as the starters are on the field for such a short amount of time that if you go to the bathroom you may miss them playing entirely. The first pre-season game is usually really sloppy and borderline pointless...
James Starks not meeting expectations in Packers camp
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According to Bob McGinn of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Green Bay Packers running back James Starks hasn’t looked very good in camp so far.
“The Packers were looking for big things from James Starks in his third season,” wrote McGinn. ”So far, they haven’t seen it. Even though he has taken probably three times as many snaps as Alex Green, it has been...
Packers Training Camp Battles: Starks Leads by Default at Running Back
Packers RB James Starks has the edge to be the starter in 2012.
When James Starks took a handoff, shed two defenders, powered his way through another, and reached for a 17-yard touchdown against the Saints in last season’s opening game, it looked like the Packers were set at running back.
That run was exactly what the Packers were hoping to get from Starks. It wasn’t fancy. It...
Can James Starks be a fantasy football stud?
After helping to lead the Green Bay Packers to a Super Bowl victory, running back James Starks entered last year with some promise. Unfortunately injuries and Ryan Grant’s return led to just 133 carries..
Starks had one fewer carry than Grant, but finished with 19 more yards and 0.1 more yards per carry. Grant had one more touchdown than Starks, but James had three more explosive...
Starks says his knee is 'fine'
GREEN BAY, Wis. The injury to Packers running back James Starks may not be nearly as serious as it originally looked on the field.In the locker room following the game, Starks said he was fine.Coach Mike McCarthy announced that it was a knee sprain, adding that he wont know more information until Monday morning.Starks was injured on a run late in the fourth quarter. Trainers came...
Via Fox Sports Wisconsin
November 20, 2011
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Starks' bad game was a wake-up call
GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Packers running back James Starks never wants to play another game like he did in Week 3 at Chicago.
Against the Bears in that game, Starks ran for five yards on 11 carries while also fumbling in the fourth quarter. After all the promise that he showed when he exploded onto the NFL scene last season -- including running for 315 yards in the playoffs to help Green...
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November 17, 2011
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