Whatever happened to the idea that running the ball isn’t important anymore? In three of the playoff games this weekend, the winners ran for over 150 yards and at least 3 TDs.

Since 2000, only four teams had run for least 4 TDs in a playoff game. Both Kansas City and New England did it this weekend.

In the last 18 seasons, only 18 teams had scored at least 3 TDs in a postseason game. It happened in three of the four games this weekend.

All three of those teams, oddly, put up their big rushing numbers despite playing against top-10 run defenses.

3 RUSHING TOUCHDOWNS IN PLAYOFF GAMES
TeamDateOpp.ResultAttYardsAvgTD
Seattle2003at G.B.L 27-33 (ot)21492.33
Atlanta2004St.L.W 47-17403278.23
Indianapolis2004Den.W 49-2424763.23
San Diego2006N.E.L 21-24331484.53
Chicago2006N.O.W 39-14461964.33
Green Bay2007Sea.W 42-20352356.73
Pittsburgh2008S.D.W 35-24421653.93
San Diego2008Ind.W 23-17 (ot)331675.13
Baltimore2009at N.E.W 33-14522344.54
Minnesota2009at N.O.L 28-31 (ot)361654.63
Chicago2010Sea.W 35-24451763.93
New Orleans2011Det.W 45-28361674.63
San Francisco2012G.B.W 45-31433237.54
San Francisco2012at Atl.W 28-24291495.13
New England2013Ind.W 43-22462345.16
New England2014Ind.W 45-7401774.43
Carolina2015Ariz.W 49-15371524.13
Jacksonville2017at Pit.W 45-42351644.74
Kansas City2018Ind.W 31-13331805.54
New England2018LACW 41-28341554.64
LA Rams2018Dall.W 30-22482735.73

—Ian Allan