The NFL is said to be a passing league with running backs are no longer critical to success. The metrics are telling a different story in 2024 \u2013 and not just in Philly and Baltimore<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re remotely familiar with the National Football League these days, you know what people say about both modern offenses and the value of running backs within them. Over the last two decades, with the increase in having multiple receivers on the field, and the decreasing value of running backs both in the draft and free agency, it\u2019s now writ large that the NFL is a passing game, and that running backs don\u2019t really matter.<\/p>\n
As is the case with any absolute, there\u2019s more to the story, and that\u2019s been especially true in the 2024 season. Most people already know that Saquon Barkley of the Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> and Derrick Henry of the Baltimore Ravens<\/a> are re-jiggering the concept of running back value with their MVP-level seasons, but there\u2019s an undercurrent of creative and effective run games throughout the league in 2024 that is showing up more and more in the metrics.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The NFL is said to be a passing league with running backs are no longer critical to success. The metrics are telling a different story in 2024 \u2013 and not just in Philly and Baltimore If you\u2019re remotely familiar with the National Football League these days, you know what people say about both modern offenses … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}