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I read an interesting article which argued that Jordan Howard was struggling because he was no longer seeing any 8 man boxes. In prior years, teams crashed in on howard Immediately, which compressed 8 defenders all into the same level of the field (the line of scrimmage). All Howard had to do was make 1 quick cut and there were no defenders in the 2nd level for Howard to maneuver around.
This year, with the offense spread out, Howard saw the least amount of 8 man boxes in the NFL for a starting RB. Now Howard has to maneuver around defenders at every level, 1 cut is not going to spring him loose.
:thinking::thinking::thinking::thinking: