[Rany Jazayerli] Even for Patrick Mahomes, this is ridiculous: He has 23 rushing attempts for 83 yards this season, a mediocre 3.61 YPA. But 10 of his 23 attempts – *43%* – are kneeldowns. Take those out, and Mahomes has 13 rushes for 103 yards, a 7.92 YPA. Kneeldowns should not be rushes.
October 8, 2024
[Rany Jazayerli] Even for Patrick Mahomes, this is ridiculous: He has 23 rushing attempts for 83 yards this season, a mediocre 3.61 YPA. But 10 of his 23 attempts – *43%* – are kneeldowns. Take those out, and Mahomes has 13 rushes for 103 yards, a 7.92 YPA. Kneeldowns should not be rushes.
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The fact that he already has 10 kneeldowns with 5 games played says more than the YPA.
College football records kneeldowns as a team rush instead of assigning the yards to a specific player, and I’ve always thought that makes way more sense
Mahomes non-designed runs are the most efficient play in football.
Wait a minute… Kneeldowns are a team stat I thought. This makes no sense.
Fantasy owners across the globe have been screaming this for years!
They need to stop counting kneel downs as individual rush attempts. It’s just stupid. Stupid for gambling/fantasy and just stupid for the way we track the game. It’s literally not a rush attempt
Agreed! A couple of years ago in fantasy football, I had the win sealed in a super close game. Mahomes got me two extra points from his 40 yards rushing that day—which put me over the top by a fraction of a point. But then he had two kneeldowns at the end, and the negative yards took a full point off because he went down to 38 yards. Lost me the game because of non-plays.
Also a couple of those kneel downs he was moving backward to use a little extra time but if you care that much about stats the backup could do the kneeling but nobody care that much about those things
9 comments
The fact that he already has 10 kneeldowns with 5 games played says more than the YPA.
College football records kneeldowns as a team rush instead of assigning the yards to a specific player, and I’ve always thought that makes way more sense
Mahomes non-designed runs are the most efficient play in football.
Wait a minute… Kneeldowns are a team stat I thought. This makes no sense.
Fantasy owners across the globe have been screaming this for years!
They need to stop counting kneel downs as individual rush attempts. It’s just stupid. Stupid for gambling/fantasy and just stupid for the way we track the game. It’s literally not a rush attempt
Agreed! A couple of years ago in fantasy football, I had the win sealed in a super close game. Mahomes got me two extra points from his 40 yards rushing that day—which put me over the top by a fraction of a point. But then he had two kneeldowns at the end, and the negative yards took a full point off because he went down to 38 yards. Lost me the game because of non-plays.
Also a couple of those kneel downs he was moving backward to use a little extra time but if you care that much about stats the backup could do the kneeling but nobody care that much about those things
