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2014 Run Defense by Number of Backs

As football fans gobble through the flavorless buffet of player rankings, we're livening up the offseason's dog days by unveiling some of the charting stats that will appear in Football Outsiders Almanac 2015 (coming soon!). After looking at offensive rushing success by number of backs last week, we're flipping over to the other side of the ball and breaking down defensive success versus single- and multi-back formations.

As previous versions of this article have discussed, the number of two-back runs a defense sees doesn't really correlate with a team's record or DVOA.