Running backs: the playoff slate

Weeks 15–17, 2026 last season's final profiles, while this season has fewer than three games

RB WR TE

Each offense's three opponents in weeks 15 to 17 and the mean of what those defenses have allowed a game to running backs this season, the softest slate first. What a defense has allowed is history, and our own check found it tracks the next game only faintly: read it as the matchup a player walks into, not as what he will do in it.

#	Offense	Week 15	Week 16	Week 17	Mean
1	Lions	@ 1059th	1172nd	@ 10410th	108.7
2	Vikings	8921st	1163rd	@ 1105th	105.0
3	Ravens	@ 9617th	9815th	@ 1201st	104.6

1 Lions wk 15 @ MIN · wk 16 NYG · wk 17 @ CHI 108.7rush yds a game, mean
2 Vikings wk 15 DET · wk 16 WAS · wk 17 @ NYJ 105.0rush yds a game, mean
3 Ravens wk 15 @ PIT · wk 16 CLE · wk 17 @ CIN 104.6rush yds a game, mean

Yards and targets allowed are from each defense's final games this season, ranked among the 32 (1 = allows the most). 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 floors are on How we count.