You know the crazy thing about Edge is he's a HOFer. But if he never had his injury in the NFL I actually think he'd be looked at as the unanimous 4th or 5th best RB in NFL history after Barry, Payton, and Jim Brown and maybe Eric ****erson. Not Emmitt smith, AP, LT, etc....
He's 14th all time in career rush yards with 12,246. 22nd in Rush TDs with 80. He had 7 1k+ seasons, 4 of which were 1500+yards. His first 2 yrs he had 1500 and 1700 yards. Then he tore his acl 6games into season that he was setting the pace to be the best of his career with at least 110y/g and 1800 yards rushing.
The issue is it really made him take a step back for multiple years before truly returning to form and racking up another two 1500 yard seasons. I think had he not had that setback he'd legit have 7 straight 1500 yard seasons to start his career. And I wouldn't be surprised if 3+ of those were 1700 yard seasons. Now I don't know if he would have put up a 2000 yard season that most of the rbs who were viewed as the top top did, but that is also because he had Harrison/Wayne competing for touch-share.
For comparison in terms of amount of 1500 yard seasons, Emmit Smith has 3, AP had 2, LT had 3, Barry had 5 (another 2 at 1400), ****erson had 4 (but 3 were 1800+!!!), Curtis Martin had 2, Derick Henry has had 5.... Terrell davis had 3 in his (who imo shouldnt be be a HOFer) 4yr run to start his career before falling off a cliff due to the acl injury as well was basically the same starting pace Edge was on. Except Edge actually returned from injury and put up 5 more 1k seasons....