At the halfway point of the season, the Seattle Seahawks' Marshawn Lynch is averaging 3.64 yards per carry.
According to ESPN Stats & Information, that ranks 41st out of 49 qualifying players. And it's a marked drop-off from 2014 when Lynch averaged 4.66 YPC (13th).
There are plenty of theories floating around Seattle about why Lynch's production has slowed. Has it simply been the result of poor blocking? Is the sample size (103 carries) too small to draw any conclusions?
Or is it possible that Lynch, who missed two games with a hamstring injury, is showing the effects of a 1,181-carry workload over the previous four seasons, the most of any running back in the NFL during that span?