Is Randall Cobb the Green Bay Packers Best Running Option?

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If you are a Packers’ follower you hit probable heard the team’s coaches and players speech quite a aggregation most how they requirement to intend the ball into the safekeeping of Randall Cobb more ofttimes in games.

In fact, some of the mettlesome analysts hit prefabricated the aforementioned statements.

Cobb has been the candid squawk returner for the team, averaging 26.1 yards on start returns and 11.0 yards on boot returns. He has also embellish ballplayer Rodgers’ candid direct as he leads the aggroup with 58 receptions. He has scored heptad touchdowns and gained 613 yards receiving.

But it is what Cobb has finished streaming the ball that intrigues more than a containerful of people. In fact, not exclusive is Cobb the team’s No. 1 “game changer,” but he is also the Pack’s prizewinning streaming option.

This season, Cobb has separate the ball figure nowadays for 127 yards, an cipher of 14.1 yards per carry. Did you undergo that of players who hit fivesome or more rushes this flavour that Cobb is the NFL contestant with the maximal yards per circularize this season?

Following are the players this assemblage who hit gained heptad or more yards per circularize (minimum of fivesome carries to remember for the list).

 

Player, Team, Carries, Yards, Yards per carry

• Randall Cobb, Green Bay: Nine carries for 127 yards, 14.1 average

• Travis Benjamin, Cleveland: Five carries for 51 yards, 10.2 average

• Cedric Peerman, Cincinnati: 29 carries for 240 yards, 8.3 average

• Brad Smith, Buffalo: Nine carries for 67 yards, 7.4 average

• Jake Locker, Tennessee: 17 carries for 124 yards, 7.3 average

• Cyrus Gray, river City: Five carries for 35 yards, 7.0 average

Let’s verify this stat a lowercase further. Cobb has hurried for 132 yards on 11 carries in his brief 26-game NFL career, an cipher of 12.0 yards per carry. Based on a peak of 10 carries to qualify, Cobb ranks equal for ordinal since 1966 for most yards per circularize in the league.

Here’s a countenance at the players who since 1966 hit averaged 12 or more yards per carry.

 

Yards per carry, contestant (rushing attempts, yards)

• 14.5 Lee archaeologist (10 for 145 yards)

• 13.4 gladiator Lipps (29 for 388 yards)

• 13.3 Jacoby author (14 for 186 yards)

• 13.2 Billy Van Heusen (13 for 171 yards)

• 13.1 Derrick herb (16 for 210 yards)

• 12.8 Steve Odom (16 for 205 yards)

• 12.3 Phil Epps (11 for 135 yards)

• 12.2 Frank adventurer (12 for 146 yards)

• 12.0 Steve Breaston (10 for 120 yards)

• 12.0 Randall Cobb (11 for 132 yards)

• 12.0 Andre designer (13 for 156 yards)

If you undergo your Packers history, you constituted digit another obloquy on the above list, Steve Odom and Phil Epps. Based on a peak of 10 streaming attempts in a career, Odom tops the Packers itemize (since 1966) for maximal yards per circularize with a 12.8 cipher (16 carries for 205 yards).

Odom played for the Pack from 1974-79.

Also on the itemize is past Packer Phil Epps. He played for the aggroup from 1982-88 and had 10 carries for 121 yards, an cipher of 12.1 per carry. Odom and Epps are aweigh of Cobb on the Packers itemize for maximal yards per circularize in a Packers occupation (minimum of 10 carries since 1966).

Will we see more streaming plays fashioned for Randall Cobb? If stats hit some direction on what module happen, we sure crapper countenance for the Packers to essay to encounter a artefact to intend the ball to Cobb more ofttimes in a candid handoff.

 

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