You all completely missed the point.AP is great and I try to draft him every year in Fantasy Football but he is NOT and NEVER WILL BE Barry Sanders. The moves Barry had never existed before he came into the NFL and will likely never be seen again in our lifetime. Even if AP racks up more yards will he be another Emmit Smith who everyone says he should thank Barry for retiring before he set all the records?
AP has his own style of running but play for play I don't think he's as good as Barry, great, phenomenal... but not Barry and never will be. AP had Stephen Hutchinson for a while too. Barry had one of the worst OL's run blocking for him that ever existed...
The original statement was that AP was a once in a decade talent like Sanders, not that he would surpass him in stats (though that looks possible), or that they had same running style (totally different styles).
They did both play behind shitty lines with shitty quarterbacks, unlike Emmitt Smith who piled up all his yards and TDs behind what's probably the best O-line in history.