(12-28-2019, 09:11 AM)Upper Wrote:

(12-28-2019, 12:59 AM)JackCity Wrote: Remember short yardage uses brings down yards per carry and he's used on short yardage more than any back in that group. Also ypc isn't a good stat to measure RB performance.

Is there evidence of the former?

And YPC isn't perfect no, but our eyes show us plenty too. There are still multiple times a game where there is a gaping hole and LF just misses it, or he gets to the outside and it's him one on one vs a DB and he goes down feebly. Then we have to go back to how the rest of the offense has to sacrifice in order for square peg Fournette to have the offense catered to him. He doesn't come across as better than average no matter how you slice it to me.

Yeah it doesn't stabilize until thousands of carries.   

Fournette gets less yards of push with his line than most RBs this year too, which also directly effects what YPC would look like. Team who give up a lot of penetration and don't get yards before contact always are way down the charts of ypc too.  

I don't think he's anymore than average/slightly above average, just using YPC as evidence for that doesn't really hold water give how key the offensive line is in it.

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