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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 802232">Breaking tackles and yards after contact are important stats for a certain kind of RB.  Other kinds of running backs are successful in avoiding contact in the first place.  One would think based on these stats Gurly's yards before contact must skew to the high end.  Is that merely a function of the O-line opening holes where they are supposed to be or is it a function of Gurley finding them wherever they develop?  I'd have to watch him a lot more than I have to say one way or the other."The only real advantage he has over Aaron Jones, and it's a big one, would seem to be that Gurley is about 15lbs heavier than Jones."Gurley has another advantage:  4 seasons of high productivity on 250, 321 and 343 touches, while on pace for 368 this season.  We have no idea what Jones would do with 23 touches on average, week in and week out.</blockquote>

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