Can Melvin Gordon Become the Chargers’ Next LaDainian Tomlinson?

August 19, 2015   ·   Dan Pompei   ·   Jump to comments

SAN DIEGO—In the Southern California summer sun, Melvin Gordon takes the football from Philip Rivers in his midsection and steps hard into the gap between center and left guard. An unimpeded linebacker reads the play perfectly and moves to the same hole. He has Gordon lined up squarely. 
Then, with a flash to his left, Gordon is no longer where he was. The linebacker tries unsuccessfully to bring him down with a hand on a hip. Whoosh, Gordon is gone.
To the football aficionado, this is poetry in pads. You could watch a thousand running backs and not see one who can move like that, at least not as gracefully and forcefully as Gordon.
To a Chargers aficionado, it's not such an unfamiliar sight.
Nick Hardwick, the former Chargers center who retired in the offseason after 11 NFL years and is now the sideline reporter for the team's games on KIOZ-FM, noticed the similarity between Gordon and the great LaDainian Tomlinson. He noticed when he saw Gordon play at ...

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