I seriously doubt that Hawes is a better blocker than Anderson so, unless he’s going to get consistent targets in the passing game, it will be a downgrade when the Bills go big. They threw to him once last night and it was a big play. The running game was below last season’s averages. I don’t like that trade off.
Now, it’s the Ravens and just one game, so we’ll see how this works moving forward but I’m not in favor of reducing the effectiveness of the running game for 1 or 2 targets a game.