Tony Pollard's season

[eromeopolk]

As awful as the running game has seemed at times, TP is only 65 yards short of 1,000 (935) and 10th out of all running backs. McCaffrey leads all backs by a wide margin with 1,459, but TP isn’t that far off from the rest of the top ten and could pass a few of them with one decent game. Derrick Henry, who many were begging the Cowboys to get before the trade deadline, has 1,014. However, Henry does have 11 TDs compared to TP’s 5.
Has his season truly been as bad as everyone thinks it was?

Repeat Henry does have 11 RUSHING TDS. Over and over again to yourself.

Then remember Elliott walked away with 12 rushing TDs given him away for free.

 

[wssaustin]

Plain and simple: pay your OL, not your RB.

 

[Calvin2Tony2Emmitt2Julius]

Speaking of Zeke, he’s currently #39, with 588 yards and 1 touchdown.

Yup Add that to what Tony Has and you have a running Game. We needed him this year , and we could have had him at a discount. So many were ready to move on from him.

It clearly hurt our team

 

[Calvin2Tony2Emmitt2Julius]

Plain and simple: pay your OL, not your RB.

That's like saying Pay your receivers , not your QB.

You must be good at all positions

When will you people learn

 

[Jayinem]

1000 divided by 17 is only 58 yards per game. It's sorta embarrassing for any starting RB who gets the majority of carries to not have that yet.

 

[Kellsbells]

1000 divided by 17 is only 58 yards per game. It's sorta embarrassing for any starting RB who gets the majority of carries to not have that yet.

Well, only 6 of 32 teams have a RB with 1000, so I guess there are 26 embarrassed teams.

 

[Kellsbells]

He’s averaging less than 15 carries a game (14.6875). How is any RB supposed to get over 1,000 yards with such limited action? Zeke was regularly getting 1.5-2 times as many in his big years. Many times he wouldn’t have any success until the 3rd or 4th quarter. Now, we all but abandon the run by the 3rd or 4th quarter.

 

[Typhus]

2023 RBs Yards from Scrimmage and TDs (thru week 17)

1. C. McCaffery....2023 yds, 21 TDs (2000 yards ...again)
2. J Cook...1515 yds, 6 TDs
3. R. White...1446 yds, 9 TDs
4. T. Etienne...1397 yds, 12 Tds
5. B. Hall...1395 yds, 8 TDs
6. K. Williams...1350 yds, 15 TDs (only 11 games....2nd best RB this year, imo)
7. Bi. Robinson....1332 yds, 7 TDs
8. J Mixon....1293 yds, 10 TDs
9. D Swift....1263 yds, 6 TDs
10. J Gibbs...1231 yds...10 TDs
11. T Pollard...1230 yds, 5 TDs
12. D Henry...1228 yds, 11 TDs
13. R Mosert...1187 yds, 21 TDs (wow)
14. I Pacheco...1179 yds, 9 TDs
15. A Kamara...1160 yds, 6 TDs (13 gms)
16. S Barkley...1145 yds, 8 TDs (13 gms)
17. J Warren...1104 yds, 4 TDs
18. J Jacobs...1101 yds, 6 TDs (13 gms)
19. J Ford...1100 yds, 9 TDs
20. D Montgomery...1092 yds, 12 TDs
21. K Walker...1083 yds, 9 TDs
22. N harris...1072 yds, 7 TDs
23. Br Robinson...1066 yds, 8 TDs
24. C Hubbard...1043 yds, 5 TDs (11 srts)
25. D Singletary...1026 yrds, 3 TDs (9 strts, 16 gms)

If you consider the 6 weeks that Achane missed in his rookie season, he would be on that list.

 

[Typhus]

A RB only needs to average 59 yards per game to get 1,003 yards. Does that meet your expectations for Pollard?

That meets your expectations for a pass first offense.

 

[Jayinem]

Well, only 6 of 32 teams have a RB with 1000, so I guess there are 26 embarrassed teams.

True but if you look at team stats 9 teams have over 2000 yards rushing and we're not one of them. So a lot teams have rbs sharing the load.

 

[IceStar-D7]

Pollard has missed some huge holes and a few missed scoring opportunities. The Oline haven't helped as they've been pitiful most of the season in run and quarterback protection.

 

[Chasing6]

Pollard should be in a shared backfield. They needed to get better than Dowdle.

Yes he should be in a shared backfield, where you pay two of them combined, what he is making.

 

[TheFinisher]

Hasn’t had much room to work with this year imo.