{"id":10763,"date":"2014-07-20T11:55:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T15:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=10763"},"modified":"2014-07-20T11:55:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T15:55:17","slug":"jaguars-planning-to-use-toby-gerhart-as-every-down-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/07\/20\/jaguars-planning-to-use-toby-gerhart-as-every-down-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaguars planning to use Toby Gerhart as every down back"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe Jacksonville Jaguars continue to suggest that Toby Gerhart will be an every down back as he enters his first season with the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cToby will be our workhorse,\u201d offensive coordinator Jedd Fisch told the Florida Times Union<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n

Statements like those are largely based off of where the Jaguars have finished the last handful of seasons in rushing. In fairness the Jaguars have not held a lot of leads forcing them to pass the ball.<\/p>\n

\u201cToby has the ability to do it all,\u201d Fisch said. \u201cHe can catch it well. He can pass protect well, and he\u2019s going to be in the game a lot \u2014 third down, base downs, short-yardage, passing downs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jordan Todman and Denard Robinson will fall behind Gerhart on the dept chart.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose two guys are truly change-of-pace backs,\u201d Fisch said. \u201cJordan really intrigues us with his burst, speed and acceleration. \u2026 I\u2019m excited about Denard.\u201d<\/p>\n

In four seasons with the Vikings, Gerhart has run 276 times for 1,305 yards (4.7 avg) with five touchdowns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Jacksonville Jaguars continue to suggest that Toby Gerhart will be an every down back as he enters his first season with the team. \u201cToby will be our workhorse,\u201d offensive coordinator Jedd Fisch told the Florida Times Union last week. Statements like those are largely based off of where the Jaguars have finished the last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[426,141,216,780],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-10763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-front","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-nfl","tag-toby-gerhart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10765,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10763\/revisions\/10765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10763"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}