Clinton Portis To Announce Retirement

I was at the game for Clinton's first carry. The place went crazy.

I was in my first apartment and went crazy!

What a play. I was already jacked to have him in B&G and he does THAT on his first carry as a Skin? Perfect moment.


Normally when a player retires or leaves a team, we stop wearing their jerseys because they're not a current player...at least that's what I've done.

I'll still proudly wear my CP jersey.

I agree! When Portis was healthy, he was pretty solid.
15 TDs in a season is more than "pretty solid".

Aside from rushing for more than 1200 yard 6 of his first 7 years and topping 1400 yards 4 times, he also racked up a lot of receiving yards and topped 1700 total yards many years.

Check out his total yardage numbers in his healthier years:
2002 - 1872
2003 - 1905
2004 - 1550
2005 - 1732
2006 - 693 in 8 games
2007 - 1651
2008 - 1705

His production plus his blocking...I do think he's Hall-worthy eventually. Not even close to a first-ballot but definitely worth strong consideration in the future.

I am glad he is going out with class. Good for him.

I was at the game for Clinton's first carry. The place went crazy.

Same here. When he broke that run off, it was nuts. I still think that's his best carry as a Redskin.

CP finishes 27th on the all time list, pretty nice accomplishment. But going by some of the names ahead of him, I find it hard to see CP getting in to the Hall.

NFL Career Rushing Yards Leaders - Pro-Football-Reference.com (http://www.pro-football-reference.com/leaders/rush_yds_career.htm)

CP finishes 27th on the all time list, pretty nice accomplishment. But going by some of the names ahead of him, I find it hard to see CP getting in to the Hall.

NFL Career Rushing Yards Leaders - Pro-Football-Reference.com (http://www.pro-football-reference.com/leaders/rush_yds_career.htm)

And to add to this, The Skins were not contenders very often when CP was with us, though no fault of his part. I man let's just face facts folks without a legit QB, you can't win in this league and I loved Mark Brunell as much as the next guy when he was here, but the Skins haven't had an elite QB in 20 years. Hoping so much for RG3 to fix that.

Portis was a fine RB in his prime, but that was a terrible deal in an of itself... They should have been sending a COUPLE picks our way, instead Danny was so excited by the "big name" RB and so ignorant about the actual value and rarity of a true shutdown corner that he got smoked by Shanahan... champ bailey was leaving dc no matter what. and the whole league knew it. this is 1 time the front office got the best deal possible.

at that time it looks like denver got the best of us. champ is special, and shanahan zbs was churning out 1000 yard backs with ease. and denver got our second round pick they used on clinton replacement tatum bell.

but since bell really didnt do much in denver, bailey did well but denver never really went anywhere, meanwhile portis carried our offense for a few years....

I think we got the better deal by sheer luck.

I was at the game for Clinton's first carry. The place went crazy.

My cousin's friend got so hyped after that run that he punched a hole in the wall in his own home. LOL.

Same here. When he broke that run off, it was nuts. I still think that's his best carry as a Redskin.

I was also at the game and if I'm correct it was the longest run he had as as a skin.

Great post

I'd say top 3 redskins backs no doubt..

Riggins
Davis
Portis

For me personally

Thats what I had. Top 3. Definately Riggo first and second, third, fourth, and fifth could all be a toss up with Portis, Davis, Byner, and some other older cat whose name escapes me right now.