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Running backs vs the defense

Week 2, 2021 last season's final profiles, while this season has fewer than three games

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.

Atlanta Falcons vsTampa Bay Buccaneers Buccaneers

Allowed 61 rushing yards a game last season.

Cordarrelle Patterson

41% of carries over his last four, 67 scrimmage yds a game.

Mike Davis

38% of carries over his last four, 72 scrimmage yds a game.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers atAtlanta Falcons Falcons

Allowed 71 rushing yards a game last season.

Leonard Fournette

74% of carries over his last four, 59 scrimmage yds a game.

Ronald Jones

40% of carries over his last four, 14 scrimmage yds a game.

Los Angeles Rams vsIndianapolis Colts Colts

Allowed 73 rushing yards a game last season.

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

The other 26 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.

Cleveland Browns atHouston Texans Texans

Allowed 147 rushing yards a game last season.

Nick Chubb

62% of carries over his last four, 101 scrimmage yds a game.

Kareem Hunt

39% of carries over his last four, 61 scrimmage yds a game.

Los Angeles Chargers atDallas Cowboys Cowboys

Allowed 127 rushing yards a game last season.

Justin Jackson

35% of carries over his last four, 7 scrimmage yds a game.

Denver Broncos vsJacksonville Jaguars Jaguars

Allowed 127 rushing yards a game last season.

Melvin Gordon

42% of carries over his last four, 118 scrimmage yds a game.

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.

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