Factoid
A couple of backs who put up big numbers last year – DeAngelo Williams and Michael Turner – will have to deal with much harder schedules this year.
If you plug in the numbers for strength of schedule for each team, except use rushing yards and rushing touchdowns, than Atlanta and Carolina project to have the hardest two schedules ths year. That potentially could make it harder for Carolina to again score 30 rushing touchdowns, and it will make it more difficult for Michael Turner to duplicate the kind of production he put up in his first year in Atlanta.
Notable running backs with seemingly easy schedules against the run include Adrian Peterson, Clinton Portis and LaDainian Tomlinson.
STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE – RUNNING VERSION
Yards TDR Points
1,976 16.5 18.5 Baltimore
1,934 16.9 18.4 Minnesota
1,967 16.2 18.4 Washington
1,896 17.1 18.2 Arizona
1,948 16.1 18.2 San Diego
1,907 16.7 18.2 San Francisco
1,943 15.9 18.1 Pittsburgh
1,889 16.5 18.0 Seattle
1,905 15.9 17.9 Chicago
1,905 15.6 17.8 Jacksonville
1,886 15.3 17.5 Cincinnati
1,869 14.9 17.3 Kansas City
1,897 14.4 17.2 Denver
1,868 14.8 17.2 Dallas
1,833 15.4 17.2 Cleveland
1,847 15.1 17.2 Philadelphia
1,856 14.9 17.2 Oakland
1,843 14.9 17.1 Houston
1,835 15.1 17.1 Green Bay
1,805 15.3 17.0 St. Louis
1,871 14.2 17.0 NY Jets
1,874 14.1 17.0 New Orleans
1,803 14.4 16.7 Tennessee
1,790 14.4 16.6 Indianapolis
1,827 13.8 16.6 NY Giants
1,848 13.4 16.6 Buffalo
1,793 13.9 16.4 New England
1,795 13.4 16.2 Tampa Bay
1,741 14.1 16.2 Detroit
1,761 12.8 15.8 Miami
1,728 12.1 15.3 Atlanta
1,731 12.0 15.3 Carolina
—Ian Allan
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