BYU alum Tyler Allgeier is stuck in NFL Groundhog's Day as Arizona drafts star RB

Lies, deception, inequality, brutality. These are just a few of the words one could use to describe the unfair treatment of former BYU running back Tyler Allgeier since his introduction to the NFL. Now with his second team, he's being forced back to the sideline in an identical turn of events to his years with the Atlanta Falcons.

He's Tom Hanks in Groundhog Day. He's Tom Cruise in Edge of Tomorrow. He's Andy Samberg in Palm Springs. No matter where Allgeier goes, his team drafts a running back in the first round. Only this time, the Arizona Cardinals didn't even give their new back the decency of one season as RB1.

After dominating at the collegiate level, breaking spines and records on his way to the north and south end zones of BYU's LaVell Edwards Stadium, this wrecking ball from the backfield was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons and immediately emerged as one of the most elecrifying and impossible to tackle tailbacks in the entire National Football League.

In his rookie season, he had already broken through. So imagine Allgeier's shock (along with the rest of the NFL world) when the Falcons drafted a Bijan Robinson, a star running back out of Texas, in the first round of the following draft.

From that point on, Allgeier was forced to play second fiddle to Robinson. The Falcons' shiny new tailback was, admittedly, every bit as talented as advertised, but sitting at RB 2 was perhaps the most overqualified understudy in the entire league. Frustrated and underappreciated, Allgeier left in free agency in hopes of finding a new home, and a starting role.

He found just that in Arizona, as the Cardinals were in the middle of a reconstruction that would finally give their new, talented running back all the room he needed to stretch out.

But like a broken record, Allgeier was thrust back into the background when his new team drafted another running back in the first round, Notre Dame's Jeremiyah Love, with the third overall pick. When a team picks up a running back in the top 10 of a draft, that's a guarantee that they plan to run out their new toy on virtually every down. Love and Allgeier won't be running back by committee. This is Love's show now.

Sure, Allgeier will be wiping his tears with hundred-dollar bills on his current $12.6 million deal over the next two seasons, but to lose your starting job in the exact same way -- by no fault of your own -- it's hard to believe that you could ever be a starting running back again.

For the former BYU star, who has already proved capable of succeeding at the NFL level, the Cardinals' draft selection should feel like a slap in the face.

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