Tapp-ing into the Numbers: 40 Packers Stats Until Opening Kickoff (No. 18)
By JERRY TAPP
The Packers were one of four teams last season whose leading rusher tallied less than 500 yards for the season. Ty Montgomery led the Packers in 2016 with 457 yards rushing.
The Detroit Lions’ Theo Riddick led his team with only 357 yards last season, the fewest yards rushing of any player who led his team in rushing yards.
Here are the seven teams last season whose leading rusher gained less than 600 yards.
Theo Riddick, Detroit, 357
Ty Montgomery, Green Bay, 457
T.J. Yeldon, Jacksonville, 465
Christine Michael, Seattle, 469
Jerick McKinnon, Minnesota, 539
Jacquizz Rodgers, Tampa Bay, 560
Rashad Jennings, New York Giants, 593
Jerry Tapp
Jerry Tapp is a freelance writer from Racine, WI with a major concentration on sports statistics and numbers that define sports teams and players. He began his foray into sports stats-focused writing as a regular contributor to the “Numbers” column in Inside Sports magazine in the mid-1980’s and then began writing a weekly “Stats on Tapp” column for the Racine Journal Times. That column was eventually nationally syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate. He later wrote sports stats items for the Washington Post under the “Stat of the Day” heading. After launching his blog, www.statsontapp.com in 2011, Jerry turned his sports stats attention to sports websites. He wrote regularly for Bleacher Report, BallHyped, football.com and Heavy.com. Today he keeps busy writing weekly columns of stats-centric articles for three sports websites, Today’s Pigskin (NFL), Today’s Knuckleball (MLB) and Today’s Fastbreak (NBA), and as a monthly contributor to the Milwaukee Brewers “GameDay” publication that is distributed to fans attending games at Miller Park.