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Not A Lot Of Negatives Associated With Steelers RB LeGarrette Blount

In addition to penalties, negative plays can absolutely kill drives for an offense. Just so you know, last season, the Pittsburgh Steelers had a total of 35 rushing plays that went for negative yards.

During the offseason, the Steelers signed free agent running back LeGarrette Blount to compliment starter Le’Veon Bell. We’ve already looked quite a bit at Blount so far, but I was interested to see what his negative run percentage is through the first four years of his career.

The sortable table below shows running backs that have carried the football at least 400 times over the course of the last four seasons. As you can see, Blount’s negative run percentage of 9.33% is very respectable.

As for the other stats I included, while Blount’s first down per carry percentage rate of 19.69% doesn’t look all that great, it’s important to point out that only 27 of his career caries have come on either third or fourth down.

One the most surprising things about Blount is that he has shown the ability to break off the big run at the NFL level. So far during his career, 11.92% of Blount’s carries have gone for 10 or more yards. For a 250 pound running back, that’s quite impressive.

There’s just not many negatives associated with Blount and he should compliment Bell very well in Pittsburgh.

PLAYER RUSH YDS YPC TD NEG NEG % FD FD % 10 + 10 + %
Shonn Greene 791 3178 4.02 20 46 5.82% 159 20.10% 58 7.33%
BenJarvus Green-Ellis 908 3525 3.88 37 57 6.28% 211 23.24% 71 7.82%
Michael Bush 563 2132 3.79 22 38 6.75% 123 21.85% 46 8.17%
Peyton Hillis 589 2320 3.94 17 40 6.79% 123 20.88% 45 7.64%
Ray Rice 1066 4386 4.11 30 75 7.04% 187 17.54% 92 8.63%
Ryan Mathews 840 3672 4.37 20 63 7.50% 164 19.52% 91 10.83%
Felix Jones 471 1961 4.16 5 37 7.86% 102 21.66% 50 10.62%
Maurice Jones-Drew 963 4147 4.31 19 77 8.00% 217 22.53% 104 10.80%
Knowshon Moreno 600 2525 4.21 19 48 8.00% 128 21.33% 65 10.83%
Jamaal Charles 784 4350 5.55 21 65 8.29% 208 26.53% 124 15.82%
Fred Jackson 714 3194 4.47 23 61 8.54% 160 22.41% 74 10.36%
Willis McGahee 654 2687 4.11 15 56 8.56% 145 22.17% 64 9.79%
Ben Tate 421 1992 4.73 11 38 9.03% 108 25.65% 60 14.25%
Stevan Ridley 555 2477 4.46 20 51 9.19% 141 25.41% 62 11.17%
Ahmad Bradshaw 706 3078 4.36 25 65 9.21% 163 23.09% 89 12.61%
Pierre Thomas 445 1853 4.16 10 41 9.21% 97 21.80% 43 9.66%
LeGarrette Blount 579 2711 4.68 20 54 9.33% 114 19.69% 69 11.92%
Chris Ivory 438 2140 4.89 11 41 9.36% 107 24.43% 50 11.42%
Rashard Mendenhall 819 3066 3.74 31 80 9.77% 161 19.66% 65 7.94%
DeMarco Murray 542 2681 4.95 15 53 9.78% 146 26.94% 64 11.81%
Beanie Wells 449 1678 3.74 17 44 9.80% 77 17.15% 30 6.68%
Arian Foster 1077 4793 4.45 42 106 9.84% 257 23.86% 131 12.16%
Alfred Morris 611 2881 4.72 20 62 10.15% 147 24.06% 83 13.58%
Trent Richardson 451 1509 3.35 13 46 10.20% 65 14.41% 23 5.10%
Cedric Benson 665 2426 3.65 14 69 10.38% 123 18.50% 51 7.67%
Marshawn Lynch 1102 4787 4.34 41 117 10.62% 249 22.60% 123 11.16%
Donald Brown 473 2096 4.43 14 51 10.78% 97 20.51% 48 10.15%
Steven Jackson 1002 3968 3.96 21 108 10.78% 186 18.56% 100 9.98%
Matt Forte 953 4408 4.63 23 104 10.91% 202 21.20% 121 12.70%
Jonathan Stewart 461 2047 4.44 7 51 11.06% 100 21.69% 62 13.45%
Frank Gore 1000 4320 4.32 25 111 11.10% 212 21.20% 122 12.20%
Darren McFadden 661 2826 4.28 18 74 11.20% 122 18.46% 62 9.38%
Reggie Bush 702 3228 4.6 16 79 11.25% 139 19.80% 97 13.82%
Doug Martin 446 1910 4.28 12 52 11.66% 82 18.39% 49 10.99%
C.J. Spiller 587 3001 5.11 12 69 11.75% 117 19.93% 76 12.95%
DeAngelo Williams 615 2751 4.47 16 75 12.20% 114 18.54% 68 11.06%
Adrian Peterson 1118 5631 5.04 46 140 12.52% 268 23.97% 155 13.86%
LeSean McCoy 994 4836 4.87 35 125 12.58% 255 25.65% 147 14.79%
Michael Turner 858 3514 4.1 33 109 12.70% 178 20.75% 86 10.02%
Chris Johnson 1132 4731 4.18 27 147 12.99% 207 18.29% 115 10.16%
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