This is from a fantasy-related article but still:

We can roughly estimate that Rams running backs will see in the range of a combined 450 touches this season. That’s an average of just over 28 per game. Gurley’s usage over the first nine weeks of last season would equate to an enormous 86.6% of that workload. As we saw last year, that’s simply unsustainable. Reducing his workload to an average of 18 touches per game would put him at a much more reasonable 64%. We can then project Henderson in the range of 26-30% with the remaining slice of the pie going to the rest of the backfield.

An average of 18 touches per game equates to 288 over the course of 16 games. While that’s below the bell cow range of 20-plus per game, backs with that type of workload are rare in today’s NFL. Last season, only five backs averaged greater than 20 touches per game: Ezekiel Elliott (25.4), Gurley (22.5), Saquon Barkley (22.0), James Conner (20.8), and Christian McCaffrey (20.4). Joe Mixon was also close at 19.9.

An average of 18 touches per game would have ranked Gurley just outside the top-10 last season, but other running backs has shown the ability to be very productive with similar volume. Alvin Kamara averaged 18.3 touches per game last season.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/05/2019 07:02AM by LMU93.