When defensive end Dante Fowler Jr. went down with injury and was unable to compete in a single contest in 2015, all eyes turned to second round running back T.J. Yeldon as the next highest rookie for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
That added a large amount of pressure to young back out of Alabama, but it wasn’t enough to derail the reviving of the running game in year three under head coach Gus Bradley.
Yeldon finished the season 740 yards on 182 attempts (4.1 yards per attempt) with two touchdowns in just 12 games. His 61.7 yards per game aren’t eye popping by any means, but that pace would have put him just a few yards shy of a 1000 yard season if he had been available for all 16 games.