Don't think its any indictment on Lingard at all. Think Johnson is the real deal, Wright missed some spring due to injury so Lingard was getting a lot of touches/PR and nobody realized how good Etienne was going to be right from the get go. Everywhere I have read basically says Lingard looks good, its just that our RB room looks really really good. *Need to consider it is preseason with a new staff that just about everyone likes at the moment so have to consider we are getting a lot of sunshine pump.
Seems to be a theme with most of that transition class. We only took 20 players but it seems over a quarter of that class is already looking like talent that is going to get on the field early because they are that good. James, ETN, Moore, Wison, Douglas, Reynolds, McClellan, Lyons, Savaiinea and Smack...albeit, the DL guys probably will see the field due to poor depth.