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David Johnson Is Having the Best Receiving Season by a Running Back This Century

If you've watched the NFL this season at all, you probably don't need me to tell you that Arizona Cardinals running back David Johnson is good at football.

He has recorded at least 100 total yards in every game and leads the league in scrimmage yards with 1,709 to pair with 15 combined touchdowns.

In the process, he's likely piecing together the best receiving season by a running back since 2000 according to the advanced metrics.

Johnson's Metrics

Per our Net Expected Points (NEP) metric, which indicates how many points a player actually adds (or subtracts) to his team's expected total, Johnson has a very comfortable lead over the rest of this year's running backs in terms of receiving production.