(S23) - PT 4 - The Butterfly Effect

[SwankyPants31]

When creating my wiki entry for Richard Gilbert, I wrote about a pivotal moment that came in his football career during college. To summarize, after coming as a runner up for the Heisman, Gilbert elected to stay for his senior year to chase the award. He suffered a devastating injury only a couple weeks into the season his senior year though. The result of his injury was that his draft stock plummeted for the DSFL. Despite performing reasonably well in the DSFL, tying for second most touchdowns on the season on limited carries, the plummeting draft stock also carried over to the NSFL draft, though not to quite the same degree. This has been a huge driving factor in his career so far, as he’s been playing with a massive chip on his shoulder to prove he can still carry the load and be a workhorse back. While Gilbert put up an impressive sophomore performance in the DSFL, getting a nod with a running back of the year nomination which he ultimately did not win, he has struggled in his NSFL rookie season. Gilbert has kept his head up and kept fighting to prove the doubters wrong though, and recently had what might have been a breakthrough game in which he led the Yeti in rush yards and averaged just shy of 5 YPC with a touchdown to top it all off.