| 11 May 2010
In the comments for the article on Justin Forsett's Elusive Rating, some readers seemed to be curious about how the rest of Seattle's current group of running backs would rate if they were measured using Pro Football Focus' shiny new statistical toy. Well, I had some free time today, so I spent it crunching the numbers for you1. After all, we're right in the middle of the doldrums between the draft and the beginning of training camp, so there isn't much else to talk about at the moment. And as long as I was at it, I also plugged in the stats for each player's 2008 season and threw Edgerrin James and Maurice Morris into the mix, too, since they played for Seattle in '09 and '08, respectively.
Now, before we get to the data tables, I'd like to point a few things out. First off, some of these players didn't have many opportunities with the ball last year, and the fewer stats we have for a player the more unreliable their elusiveness rating becomes2; the only reason I've included the more suspect stat lines is for the sake of completeness. Also, Rankin and Forsett have no offensive stats for 2008 -- Rankin spent most of that season on Oakland's practice squad, and Forsett didn't have any carries or receptions.
2009
| Name | Att | MTRush | YCo/Att | Rec | MTRec | ER |
| Justin Forsett | 114 | 23 | 3.2 | 41 | 11 | 70.19 |
| Julius Jones | 117 | 14 | 2.5 | 35 | 4 | 21.23 |
| LenDale White (Ten) | 64 | 6 | 2.1 | 3 | 1 | 21.94 |
| Leon Washington (NYJ) | 71 | 6 | 3.0 | 15 | 0 | 20.93 |
| Quinton Ganther (Was) | 62 | 10 | 2.6 | 9 | 3 | 47.61 |
| Louis Rankin | 8 | 1 | 2.1 | 5 | 2 | 48.46 |
| Edgerrin James | 46 | 3 | 2.1 | 3 | 2 | 21.43 |
| Maurice Morris (Det) | 93 | 7 | 2.6 | 26 | 0 | 15.29 |
2008
| Name | Att | MTRush | YCo/Att | Rec | MTRec | ER |
| Julius Jones | 155 | 23 | 2.7 | 14 | 1 | 38.34 |
| LenDale White (Ten) | 215 | 6 | 2.0 | 9 | 3 | 8.04 |
| Leon Washington (NYJ) | 76 | 15 | 3.2 | 47 | 11 | 67.64 |
| Quinton Ganther (Ten) | 10 | 1 | 2.6 | 9 | 3 | 54.74 |
| Edgerrin James (Ari) | 194 | 24 | 2.8 | 19 | 2 | 34.19 |
| Maurice Morris | 132 | 11 | 3.2 | 19 | 5 | 33.91 |
1 Seahawk Addicts: Doing the math so you don't have to™.
2Assuming the elusive rating stat is reliable at all, I mean. At this point it's just an entertaining novelty.
[UPDATE: For those of you who want a little more math in your diet, be sure to check out SeahawkFanInNY's analysis of the elusive rating stat in the comments section. It is good stuff. -Ed.]
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