Sentences with phrase «rushing yards well»

Michigan State once again beat Michigan in a monsoon, Alabama looked mortal for the first time in weeks, Clemson elected once again to pull its «look good when you have to, and not a moment more» routine, and your Heisman favorite (Penn State's Saquon Barkley) had negative rushing yards well into the second half of an easy win.

Not exact matches

It's much better to have a guy rush for 900 yards who is averaging 4.7 yards a carry because it means the team is probably churning out 1st downs.

Connor Shaw threw for 162 yards on only ten passes and rushed for over 70 yards as well, scoring three touchdowns in the process.

Redshirt freshman quarterback Zerrick Cooper was put in an impossible situation and acquitted himself reasonably well (10 - for - 14 for 88 yards), but Syracuse was able to tee off on him because of Clemson's rushing problems.

The Fighting Irish finished with 379 yards rushing on 52 carries, good for a 7.3 average.

Moore has struggled through the draft process, but with an aging linebacker core, the Steelers will take the best pass rusher left on the board and be happy for his poor Combine performance (4.95 40 — yard dash & 12 reps on bench).

Washington's defense in regular season: Allowed 92 rushing yards per game, best in FBS Washington's defense vs. Saquon Barkley: Allowed 92 rushing yards on one play

Here's how high Lewis has taken it this season: He leads the league with 1,045 rushing yards, and his 68 yards in a 24 - 17 victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday helped the Ravens improve their record to 5 - 3, best in the AFC North.

He almost always jumped the snap (which also led to some offsides penalties), and yet even with his really good pass - rush technique he still wasn't able to turn the corner tightly at less than nine yards from the line of scrimmage most of the time.

Last season, Elliott blew away the competition and finished with 1,631 rushing yards, which was more than 300 yards clear of the next best rusher, fellow standout rookie Jordan Howard.

The Pirates gave up 1.8 rushes per game of 20 - plus yards, which wasn't good (92nd in FBS), but we're speaking relatively here.

Rushed for CCS - best 2,206 yards, 23 TDs while eclipsing the century mark 12 times en route to a NorCal title.

Unfortunately, all the hubbub surrounding Ezekiel Elliott has led to the removal of the Cowboys» win total, as well as the props for rushing yards and touchdowns.

Wisconsin didn't have perhaps its two best interior linebackers, Jack Cichy and Chris Orr, and it still held Michigan's rushing attack to 2.2 yards per carry excluding sacks.

Sunday's matchup against the Lions sets up well for Collins with the Ravens as 3 - point home favorites against a Lions defense that's allowed an additional 8.4 points per game and 76.2 rushing yards per game since losing defensive tackle Haloti Ngata (biceps, IR) in Week 5.

That doesn't bode well for Indy, which only rushes for 118 yards per outing.

Proving that there is some run to complement the shoot, the Falcons won eight of the nine games in which Heyward — who averaged a career - best 4.6 yards per rush — carried the ball at least 14 times.

Oakland has averaged a paltry 62.3 rushing yards per game while Denver hasn't been much better with 90.3.

The Badgers must replace the best running back in the country, a guy who rushed for nearly 2,600 yards, caught 19 passes, scored 32 touchdowns and put together some of the most brilliant performances you'll ever see.

If Liuget is a good run stopper this year, why are the chargers giving up 135 - 140 yards rushing a game?

In last week's 23 - 14 win over the Minnesota Vikings, the Packers got one of their better rushing performances of the season, as running back James Starks picked up 66 yards on 15 carries with a touchdown, while Alex Green gained 58 yards on 12 attempts.

They lost their best runner (1,100 - yard man Mario Bates) and pass rusher (Shante Carver) to the NFL and their best linebacker (Brian Easter) to a suspension for violating team rules.

The run game was humming along pretty well against the Utes, producing 200 yards at 4.8 yards per carry, though it struggled more against a Houston front that includes sensational nose tackle Ed Oliver, rushing for 152 yards at 3.9 yards per carry.

His best season was 2011, when he set career highs with 1,364 yards rushing and 76 catches for 704 yards receiving.

Over those samethree weeks Miami has allowed 298 rushing yards and three TDs on the ground.Those trends bode well for Jacobs owners for this game in London.

But the best performances might come from the Horned Frogs themselves: 18 starters return, including Andre Davis, who rushed for 867 yards in» 93.

He's also the only quarterback in history to have thrown for at least 4,000 yards and 30 touchdowns while rushing for 500 or more yards as well.

He finishes the year with 2,019 yards rushing, a school record, as well as 645 yards receiving, and 15 total touchdowns.

The good news is that they don't have to go to Romo all that much; Dallas has rushed for 120 yards.

He did his best work as a running back this week, rushing for 162 yards and two touchdowns on 16 carries.

Nebraska may have come to Norman with the best rushing attack in the nation (395.6 yards a game), but the Sooners countered that with a scorched - earth defense that had yielded only 65.2 yards a game on the ground.

UCLA attempts balance but leans a bit on the run, and it's worked out well: sophomore Paul Perkins is one of the nation's most underrated backs, rushing for 1,172 yards (6.2 yards per carry, 6.1 highlight yards per opportunity) and taking hits away from quarterback Brett Hundley (107 carries, 725 yards).

I think one year, there was a R.B who led the NFL in rushing who didn't get Rookie of the year, because another R.B. had a better yard per carry.

As was often the case in 2015, the Wisconsin run game worked only so well — Corey Clement and Dare Ogunbowale rushed 32 times for 116 yards, a mediocre 3.6 yards per carry.

The dude was one of the best runners in the NFL last year, rushing for more than 1,000 yards in just eight starts, but has just 359 yards this year in nine starts.

Kaepernick has played well so far in the postseason for San Francisco, completing 63.5 percent of his passes for 496 yards and three touchdowns, while rushing for 202 yards and two touchdowns.

Down to their third - and fourth - string options in Bryce Brown and Christine Michael — both of whom were signed off the street, by the way — the Seahawks rushed for 182 yards against the hapless Browns last week, which was actually their third - best total on the year.

Anderson had his best game of the year in Week 12 against the New England Patriots, rushing for 113 yards and two touchdowns, including the game - winner in overtime.

Against UL - Lafayette, Memphis, Tennessee and Mississippi State — a group that includes three good defenses — Walton rushed 41 times for 375 yards (9.1 per carry).

The big late games put him over 1,000 rushing yards for the season, and he showed potential as a pass - catcher as well.

Kirby, who doesn't hit the hole as fast as Hearst but who is a better outside runner, rushed for a career - high 120 yards and two touchdowns on 25 carries last Saturday.

The Browns mercifully won, 26 - 10, over the Bengals, and Byner had one of the best games of his long career, rushing for 121 yards on 31 carries.

I honestly think that CMC could still get 1000 - 1200 yards rushing a season if he were used this way, especially if the blocking and passing game gets better.

We know that the 3rd round pick may be a player who rushes at an historic yards per carry rate, or who is in the argument for the best TE in the league, or who leads the league in rushing.

Plus, backup running back Tre Watson wasn't really a backup to Muhammad — he carried only nine fewer times, and while he was less explosive, he had better rush efficiency numbers and caught 21 of 24 passes for 241 yards.

It won't be easy for him, as a backup, to top his rushing total from 2014, but I'm betting he will be able to best his yards per carry average of 3.6 per.

Although Manning threw for just 204 yards and one score, Knowshon Moreno posted his best game of the season, rushing for 118 yards and a touchdown in a 34 - 17 victory.

Frampton, who rushed for 2,345 yards last season in leading St. Mary's to the CIF Division I state title game, didn't have the best SPARQ rating of the day, but no other running back came close and it was the best SPARQ rating among any of the players from California.

He picks his spots well, he's big enough to break weak tackles, and in two seasons as Alabama's starter, he's rushed 272 times (not including sacks) for 1,855 yards and 21 touchdowns.

Despite rushing for a school record and Sac - Joaquin Section - best 2,884 yards and 43 touchdowns — and adding seven more scores by way of reception, interception return, fumble recovery, and punt return — the Thundering Herd senior is not considering multiple D - I offers.