Running backs vs the defense

Week 13, 2021 last season's final profiles, while this season has fewer than three games

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Every week, the defenses that have been hardest and easiest on running backs this season, after adjusting for who they have played, and the players who face them this week. What a defense has allowed is history, never a forecast.

The toughest matchups for running backs

From last season's final figures, until this season has three games.

at Buccaneers

Allowed 61 rushing yards a game last season.

Cordarrelle Patterson

41% of carries over his last four, 96 scrimmage yds a game.

Mike Davis

38% of carries over his last four, 25 scrimmage yds a game.

vs Falcons

Allowed 71 rushing yards a game last season.

Leonard Fournette

74% of carries over his last four, 85 scrimmage yds a game.

Ke'Shawn Vaughn

42% of carries over his last four, 16 scrimmage yds a game.

at Colts

Allowed 73 rushing yards a game last season.

Rex Burkhead

61% of carries over his last four, 38 scrimmage yds a game.

Mark Ingram

40% of carries over his last four, 84 scrimmage yds a game.

Saints Hall of Fame Honors Mark Ingram, Terron Armstead and Sal La Rock Canal Street Chronicles, 1 d ago

The other 22 defenses on the field this week are on the full board, with the players who face each one.

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The softest matchups for running backs

From last season's final figures, until this season has three games.

vs Texans

Allowed 147 rushing yards a game last season.

Jonathan Taylor

81% of carries over his last four, 157 scrimmage yds a game.

Belief around league circles is that Colts will keep Jonathan Taylor despite trade inquiries Stampede Blue, 4 h ago

at Cowboys

Allowed 127 rushing yards a game last season.

Alvin Kamara

52% of carries over his last four, 120 scrimmage yds a game.

Mark Ingram

40% of carries over his last four, 84 scrimmage yds a game.

Saints Hall of Fame Honors Mark Ingram, Terron Armstead and Sal La Rock Canal Street Chronicles, 1 d ago

at Jaguars

Allowed 127 rushing yards a game last season.

No running back on the Rams has a big enough share of the work to name.

Yards and targets allowed are from each defense's final games this season. Every rank is over usual: what the defense allowed each game against that offense's own average in its other games, 1st the biggest margin, over each row's games. Shares are of the team's carries or targets over the player's last four games. Data from nflverse (CC BY 4.0). The definitions and the record are on How we count.