Quite a Number

Chris Johnson's last couple of games have been more workmanlike than what we saw in the first half of the season: 27 carries for 113 yards against Indy, 28 for 117 against the Rams, and 29 for 104 yesterday against Miami. Nonetheless, the following is pretty amazing: as in most statistics, the NFL runners tend to group together regarding the number of runs they've registered of 20 or more yards. You have eight guys who've had four this year, three who've had five, three with six, four who've had seven, two with eight, one with nine, three with ten, and one more who has raced for 20-plus yards eleven times. Together, they account for 25 of the first 26 positions. And then, outlier of outliers, you have Johnson with 20, nearly double anyone else. For a little bit of perspective, LaDanian Tomlinson, in his historic 2006 campaign, tallied only 12 such runs.