{"id":2519,"date":"2011-08-17T16:23:12","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T20:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qballers.com\/blog\/?p=2519"},"modified":"2011-08-17T22:03:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T02:03:53","slug":"2011-rb-mileage-meter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/17\/2011-rb-mileage-meter\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 RB Mileage Meter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before every season its a good idea to take a look at the RB mileage meter. The last thing you want to do in a keeper league is get saddled with a guy closing in on 2,000 life-time carries. You can generate the total number of carries for RBs across all seasons very easily using pro-football-reference.com<\/a>. Avoiding 2,000 carry RBs is a good rule of thumb, but not a perfect indicator, witness Tomlinson last season. However, the bulk of the time it works. For instance, if you had run this report two seasons ago, as I did here<\/a>, you would have wisely avoided Edge James, Fred Taylor, Jamal Lewis and Clinton Portis, all guys who were being hyped in that pre-season. So what does this year’s chart tell us?<\/p>\n

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Total Life-Time Rush Attempts For Active NFL Players<\/strong><\/p>\n

Player\tG\tGS\tAtt\tYds\tY\/A\tTD\tY\/G
\nLaDainian Tomlinson\t156\t154\t3099\t13404\t4.33\t144\t85.9
\nFred Taylor\t153\t137\t2534\t11695\t4.62\t66\t76.4
\nThomas Jones\t164\t117\t2525\t10113\t4.01\t68\t61.7
\nRicky Williams\t131\t84\t2323\t9565\t4.12\t64\t73
\nClinton Portis\t113\t108\t2230\t9923\t4.45\t75\t87.8
\nSteven Jackson\t100\t88\t1878\t7948\t4.23\t47\t79.5
\nWillis McGahee\t105\t66\t1541\t6167\t4\t55\t58.7
\nLarry Johnson\t84\t55\t1426\t6221\t4.36\t55\t74.1
\nBrian Westbrook\t121\t90\t1385\t6335\t4.57\t41\t52.4
\nFrank Gore\t84\t71\t1371\t6414\t4.68\t35\t76.4
\nJulius Jones\t94\t77\t1280\t5068\t3.96\t22\t53.9
\nCedric Benson\t76\t51\t1256\t4702\t3.74\t25\t61.9
\nAdrian Peterson\t61\t54\t1198\t5782\t4.83\t52\t94.8
\nMaurice Jones-Drew\t77\t34\t1141\t5248\t4.6\t54\t68.2
\nChester Taylor\t139\t33\t1140\t4663\t4.09\t25\t33.5
\nRonnie Brown\t76\t71\t1128\t4815\t4.27\t36\t63.4
\nMichael Turner\t102\t43\t1116\t5198\t4.66\t45\t51
\nMarion Barber\t88\t41\t1042\t4358\t4.18\t47\t49.5
\nJoseph Addai\t66\t49\t977\t4020\t4.11\t38\t60.9
\nCadillac Williams\t70\t57\t968\t3677\t3.8\t20\t52.5
\nBrandon Jacobs\t86\t42\t926\t4278\t4.62\t49\t49.7
\nChris Johnson\t47\t46\t925\t4598\t4.97\t34\t97.8
\nMarshawn Lynch\t57\t48\t852\t3338\t3.92\t23\t58.6
\nKevin Faulk\t154\t44\t847\t3550\t4.19\t16\t23.1
\nMichael Bennett\t107\t50\t842\t3703\t4.4\t13\t34.6
\nDeAngelo Williams\t64\t37\t841\t4211\t5.01\t31\t65.8
\nLadell Betts\t111\t14\t821\t3326\t4.05\t15\t30
\nDominic Rhodes\t99\t33\t814\t3286\t4.04\t26\t33.2
\nMatt Forte\t48\t48\t811\t3236\t3.99\t18\t67.4
\nRyan Grant\t48\t38\t790\t3457\t4.38\t23\t72
\nMaurice Morris\t129\t32\t787\t3332\t4.23\t12\t25.8
\nSammy Morris\t141\t37\t708\t2955\t4.17\t26\t21<\/p>\n

Quick Hits<\/strong><\/p>\n

  • If this chart would format correctly you would be able to easily see that Tomlinson, Thomas Jones and Ricky Williams should be avoided like the plague. They’ve already hit the 2,000 carry red flag warning marker. <\/li>\n
  • Steven Jackson has only half a season before he hits 2,000 carries. Red flag.<\/li>\n
  • Frank Gore might have two more seasons, but I would only count on one.<\/li>\n
  • On the flip side guys like Jones-Drew and Michael Turner have been getting discounted in keeper league circles because of their age, but if you look at their mileage, they should have 3 good years left (with the usual caveats barring injury and keeping the starting job).
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