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Playing with Numbers: Running back touch attempts

By Ken Daube
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

An NFL player's opportunity to produce is directly tied to his fantasy value. Oh sure, his skill set will play a definite part in how productive he may be, but without clear opportunity, skill set is useless. For running backs, allow me to suggest a new metric for helping with the evaluation of opportunity: touch attempts. Touch attempts is simply the number of rush attempts plus the number of times that player was targeted by the quarterback with a pass. Touch attempts alone will give you t ...

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