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| | Edwards not worried Johnson is carrying too often | | NFL rushing leader Larry Johnson is on track to break one of the league's most punishing records, a fact Kansas City coach Herm Edwards insists does not concern him one bit. "I'm not going to wear him out," Edwards said Friday, with a hint of impatience that the issue would even be raised. "That's what good runners want. They want the ball. Larry made the statement earlier in the season he doesn't get warmed up until after about 25 carries. You ask for something, and you get it."
With 34 carries Thursday night in the Chiefs' 19-10 victory over Denver's hard-hitting defense, Johnson raised his yardage total to 1,202 on 282 carries. That's an average of almost 26 carries a game, which projects over a 16-game season to about 410 -- the record Jamal Anderson set in 1998 when he piled up 1,846 yards in leading Atlanta to the Super Bowl. That's a lot of bumps and bruises, even for a strong and well conditioned young man who just turned 27. "I'm not worried about Larry. Larry's fine," Edwards said. "He wants the ball that many times. It's not like he's walking around here saying, `I'm carrying the ball too much."' In his last six games, while the Chiefs... | |
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