(02-11-2019 11:26 PM)7 Wrote:  All jackassery aside, the punt return search led me to stat I've been looking for.

Childers was sacked 49 times for 322 yards last year. His overall rushing stats were 194 attempts for 531 yards (2.7 YPC). Take out the sacks and it goes to 145 carries for 853 yards and 5.9 YPC.

I don’t think that 5.9 ypc represents Childers running ability very well. Here’s why. As much as Childers holds the ball too much, causing all those sacks, it also allows him easy pass play runs. He’d take a 3rd and 15 with the defense dropping back, not pull the trigger, and then run for an uncontested 12 yards. Lynch avg 6.2 ypc in 2012. That is with sacks, but he was only sacked about a dozen times while having almost 300 carries. It wouldn’t move his average very much.

It’s not practical, but I’d need Childers “designed runs” ypc to judge him. I think he is a decent runner, but his own passing deficiencies actually help his running numbers. He’s around a 4-4.5 ypc talent as a runner IMO.

As it is with QBs, those sacks yards should offset those broke runs on pass plays, but Marcus is sacked so much and holds the ball so long, it makes him unusual to judge or compare to good QBs.