Despite your concern for free agents coming off of injuries, you fail to note that the RB you seem to have hung your hat on has an extensive injury history of his own. And, unfortunately for Dowdle, his long list of injuries have been to his legs/hips/groin. All of which are extremely critical for a RB.

The man runs hard, I'll give him that. But, his lower half doesn't seem to hold up well to his running style. There's absolutely no way they should go into next season counting on him to be anything more than a backup/special teams guy. Attitude can only get you so far if your body can't take the abuse.