Running backs: the playoff slate

Weeks 15–17, 2024 last season's final profiles, while this season has fewer than three games

QB RB WR TE

Each offense's three opponents in weeks 15 to 17 and the average of what those defenses have allowed a game to running backs this season, the softest slate first. What a defense has allowed is history. Across the whole league it has said little about the next game; at the two ends it has said more, and each block below gives that record.

#	Offense	Week 15	Week 16	Week 17	Average
1	Colts	@ 118	90	@ 111	106.3
2	Falcons	@ 98	111	@ 102	103.5
3	Saints	102	@ 96	98	98.6

1 Colts week 15 at DEN, week 16 vs TEN, week 17 at NYG 106.3rush yds a game, average
2 Falcons week 15 at LV, week 16 vs NYG, week 17 at WAS 103.5rush yds a game, average
3 Saints week 15 vs WAS, week 16 at GB, week 17 vs LV 98.6rush yds a game, average

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.