xwalker
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Number of carries or total rushing yards are not good stats to judge the impact of a quality run game.
Situational performance and the ability to force defenses into run heavy personnel/formations (i.e. 8 in the box, etc.) are the true impact of a quality running game.
- Those are difficult to measure with commonly available stats.
Defenses will adjust to limit rushing. Those adjustments make their pass defense weaker.
It is actually the threat of the run that has the most impact in a game, not the yards gained or number of runs.