Running backs vs the defense

Week 14, 2026 2026 through week 8

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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

Backs with a real workload have gained 84% of their recent average against defenses like that since 2016, and beaten it in 33% of games. Against the middle of the league, 42% have.

vs Seahawks

Holds them to 26 fewer rushing yards a game than the offenses it has faced usually gain.

Cam Skattebo

56% of carries over his last four, 90 scrimmage yds a game.

Giants-Eagles inactives: Cam Skattebo out for New York Big Blue View, 3 h ago

at Steelers

Holds them to 25 fewer rushing yards a game than the offenses it has faced usually gain.

Bhayshul Tuten

54% of carries over his last four, 93 scrimmage yds a game.

Thursday Night Football: DE Travon Walker, RB Bhayshul Tuten active for Jaguars vs. Ravens ProFootballTalk (RSS), 2 d ago

vs Jaguars

Holds them to 22 fewer rushing yards a game than the offenses it has faced usually gain.

Jaylen Warren

64% of carries over his last four, 137 scrimmage yds a game.

Ben Roethlisberger says Steelers RB Jaylen Warren belongs in MVP conversation Behind the Steel Curtain, 2 d ago

Rico Dowdle

35% of carries over his last four, 59 scrimmage yds a game.

The other 24 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

Backs with a real workload have gained 106% of their recent average against defenses like that since 2016, and beaten it in 50% of games. Against the middle of the league, 42% have.

vs Eagles

Allows 22 more rushing yards a game than the offenses it has faced usually gain.

Jonathan Taylor

55% of carries over his last four, 98 scrimmage yds a game.

Belief around league circles is that Colts will keep Jonathan Taylor despite trade inquiries Stampede Blue, 3 h ago

at Titans

Allows 20 more rushing yards a game than the offenses it has faced usually gain.

Jahmyr Gibbs

83% of carries over his last four, 149 scrimmage yds a game.

Sione Vaki emerges as Lions' change-of-pace back to pair with Jahmyr Gibbs ProFootballTalk (RSS), 4 d ago

at Giants

Allows 19 more rushing yards a game than the offenses it has faced usually gain.

Emanuel Wilson

64% of carries over his last four, 90 scrimmage yds a game.

Jadarian Price

40% of carries over his last four, 44 scrimmage yds a game.

Snap Reactions: Jadarian Price & Zach Charbonnet return, can’t wake Seahawks offense Field Gulls, 4 d ago

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.