As has been the case all preseason, rookie running back Ronald Jones III struggled to make anything happen. But as I’ve also said all preseason, bad box score games for a running doesn’t necessarily mean a bad performance. Take the following play for example:
This is just a few plays into the game. Jones does a great job here avoiding not one but two tacklers behind the line of scrimmage, which was at the 46. In fact, he even gets a couple yards out of it. So it’ll go in the box score as one rush for two yards, but that’s not really what happened, since at the time of his initial juke he was evading a defender three yards in the backfield.