A positive - Chase Brown

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(11-25-2024, 10:57 AM)ochocincos Wrote: Ok so it's about YPC. Got it.
I don't agree necessarily because there will be games where a RB may have under 4.0 YPC due to a good defense and/or may be asked to get used more in the passing game, but to each their own.
I was just curious what you were basing it on.
I base mine more on raw rushing+receiving yards rather than efficiency just running the ball.

If a dude ends up with 1200+ yards from scrimmage but under 4.0 YPC in some games, that's still a RB1 in my eyes.

Just a reminder that Giovani Bernard surpassed the 1200 yard mark twice in his first 3 seasons (in 16 games rather than the 17 of now) and he was most certainly not what folks would consider an RB1.

Darren Sproles surpassed the mark once, too, with only 87 carries that year.
Austin Ekeler broke the 1500 yard mark in a season where he rushed for 557 yards, with just 8.3 carries a game.

Just straight yards from scrimmage on it's own isn't a very good indicator of someone being a RB1 because particularly good pass catching RBs will screw that up something fierce. You need to also factor in both bulk and efficiency.

(Also you have cases like LeGarrette Blount who was just NOT a pass catcher so extremely that he had a season with 299 carries, 1,161 rushing yards, 18 TDs... and didn't reach 1,200 yards from scrimmage because he had a low ypc and nearly zero receiving production.)