So are we still sad we lost Thomas Jones?

Like most bears fans I was sad to see Thomas Jones go this last season. His replacement for this year was Cedric Benson out of Texas. I thought that Jones and Benson were a good combo last year, making it all the way to the Superbowl. This year however Benson was picked as our lead HB and Jones went off to the Jets. The Bears invested alot in Benson taking him as the 4th overall draft pick in 2005, Players they passed on that year were Braylon Edwards (WR), Shawn Merriman (OLB), Ronnie Brown (RB) and Aaron Rodgers (QB) just to name a few. We lost Benson after 11 games this year to injury, wich sidelined him the rest of the season. Jones was able to play all 16 games of the season for the jets and I thought it would be interesting to compare thier numbers on the season.

Cedric Benson

Recent Career					Rushing							Receiving										Fumbles
Year	Team	G			Rush	Yds	Y/G	Avg	TD			Rec	Yds	Y/G	Avg	Lng	YAC	1stD	TD			Fum	FumL
2005	Chicago	9			67	272	30.2	4.1	0			1	3	0.3	3.0	3	8.0	0	0			1	1
2006	Chicago	15			157	647	43.1	4.1	6			8	54	3.6	6.8	22	9.3	2	0			0	0
2007	Chicago	11			196	674	61.3	3.4	4			17	123	11.2	7.2	19	8.2	5	0			3	2

Thomas Jones

Recent Career					Rushing							Receiving										Fumbles
Year	Team	G			Rush	Yds	Y/G	Avg	TD			Rec	Yds	Y/G	Avg	Lng	YAC	1stD	TD			Fum	FumL
2005	Chicago	15			314	1335	89.0	4.3	9			26	143	9.5	5.5	41	7.2	6	0			2	2
2006	Chicago	16			296	1210	75.6	4.1	6			36	154	9.6	4.3	21	7.3	5	0			1	1
2007	NY Jets	16			310	1119	69.9	3.6	1			28	217	13.6	7.8	25	8.5	8	1			2	0

As you can tell Jones didn't have a good year with the Jets. If Benson would have been able to finish the seasons going at the rate he was, its likely he would have put up better numbers than Jones. Im not a benson hater like most people, i think he still has a chance to prove himself this next seasons. On the other hand I dont like Adrian peterson at all, im hoping the bears get rid of him and look into free agency or a 3rd round draft HB to have someone to compete with Benson, and get the Bears running game back out of the trash.