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Film and stats that explain why Antonio Gibson a promising offensive weapon

Here’s the link to ESPN’s rushing stats.

If you sort the rushers by total yards or even yards per carry, you won’t find a Washington rusher in the top 32. Whether it’s the scheme or the blocking, the WFT running game hasn’t been efficient this season.

Of course, this raises the question of whether the problem isn’t the blocking or the scheme, but the running backs who are carrying the ball. Somehow, Adrian Peterson always seemed to put up decent numbers behind the Washington line, even when it wasn’t very good.

I went from the standard rushing stats to the Pro Football Reference “advanced” stats to see if anything stuck out in a positive way, and some things did.