Lloyd pace points to a rare low mark for Packers rushing leader
MarShawn Lloyd leads Green Bay with 68 rushing yards after three games. A straight-line projection would put him at 385 for the season.
MarShawn Lloyd leads the Green Bay Packers in rushing after three games, with 68 yards. The team has 146 rushing yards overall, just over 48 per game.
If Lloyd maintains that pace across a 17-game season, he would finish with about 385 yards. That is a projection from a three-game sample, not a season result.
Yahoo Sports, citing Pro Football Focus statistics dating to 1932, says 385 yards would be the 12th-lowest season total by a Packers rushing leader in that comparison. The source notes that records from the earliest football seasons may be less precise.
The comparison includes 15 seasons in which a player led Green Bay in rushing with fewer than 400 yards. Of the 11 totals below Lloyd’s projection, the source says only one came after 1958: Michael Haddix’s 311 yards in 1990.
On projected yards per game, Lloyd would rank second-lowest in the comparison, behind Haddix. That measure also depends on the current pace continuing over a full season.
