{"id":25997,"date":"2014-08-19T23:15:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T03:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=25997"},"modified":"2022-04-01T03:39:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T07:39:28","slug":"bilal-powell-the-forgotten-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2014\/08\/19\/bilal-powell-the-forgotten-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Bilal Powell; The Forgotten Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jeremy<\/a>Despite coming away from Cincinnati with their second consecutive preseason win, Jets fans didn’t have a whole lot to be excited about.\u00a0 After being pummeled by the Bengals starters for a little over a quarter, the Jets made a run against the Bengals’ second and third-string units to pull out a 25-17\u00a0win.\u00a0 While QB Geno Smith was an efficient 10 \/ 13, there were enough mistakes on both sides of the ball to leave Jets fans pondering what lies ahead as the offense continues to struggle to make plays.<\/p>\n

One player who did stand out was fourth year RB Bilal Powell.\u00a0 Powell carried the ball four times for 41 yds, including one run\u00a0of 32 yards and a 2-yard touchdown in the 2nd quarter.\u00a0 Powell added two receptions for 13 yards and showed impressive moves and a great second effort at one point\u00a0when he picked up 12 yards evading several Bengals defenders along the right sideline.<\/p>\n

On a team that boasts a potentially\u00a0potent 1-2 punch in Chris Johnson and Chris Ivory, Powell is somewhat of a forgotten man on the Jets’ offense.\u00a0\u00a0Since\u00a0joining the Jets in 2011 Powell has never been given a heavy workload on a\u00a0consistent basis, but he has performed well at times when given the opportunity.\u00a0 Powell averaged an impressive 4.1 YPC over the first six games of the 2013 season on 87 carries while hauling in 15 catches for 137 yards.\u00a0 While those numbers aren’t going to get anyone to Hawaii, it’s worth noting that Powell pulled this off while playing on a team whose passing game was anemic and regularly faced seven and eight-man fronts.<\/p>\n

Powell lacks elite speed but he exhibits patience and good vision out of the backfield and has developed in to a reliable blocker when picking up the blitz. \u00a0That\u2019s an entirely new story. \u201cHe looks slimmer to me, and man, I love the way he protects,\u201d Rex Ryan said. \u201cHe\u2019s a very aggressive blocker, and that\u2019s what you have to be to pick up these linebackers blitzing.\u201d<\/p>\n

So while Johnson and Ivory continue to grab the headlines, Jets fans can’t ignore Ivory’s injury history, and Johson’s mileage.\u00a0 If either of those two were to miss significant time, Powell is making a bid to beat out speedy newcomer Daryl Richardson to be the next man up.\u00a0 Last Saturday in Cincinnati was a good start.<\/p>\n

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Despite coming away from Cincinnati with their second consecutive preseason win, Jets fans didn’t have a whole lot to be excited about.\u00a0 After being pummeled by the Bengals starters for a little over a quarter, the Jets made a run against the Bengals’ second and third-string units to pull out a 25-17\u00a0win.\u00a0 While QB Geno […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":16549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1337,213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-home-slider","8":"category-jet-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/powell.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-6Lj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25997"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26024,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25997\/revisions\/26024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}