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For me it comes back to that empty backfield rush that Nix took to get injured. That play still makes no sense to me. It was 3rd and 5 and if you watched most of the game. Irving was averaging 7.5 ypc. Whittington was also at 5.3. A lot of Nix runs were in escapes where he saw lanes and then smartly slid. Here is the play where he gets injured: