Emmett Johnson

#21 · RB · Jr. · Nebraska5′11″ · 200 lb · Minneapolis, MN · Academy Of Holy Angels

Emmett Johnson: RB · Nebraska · #21.

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The season so far

  • 5straight 100-yard games, their longest run
  • 217yards against Iowa, their best game
  • 12touchdowns in 12 games
  • 4thamong FBS players in rushing yards (1,451)

57% of the carries, 75% of the yards, 60% of the touchdowns

  • Carries57%251 of 437
  • Yards75%1,451 of 1,939
  • Touchdowns60%12 of 20
  • Yards a carry: 5.8. Everyone else on the team: 2.6.

At least 40% of the team's rushing yards in every game

  • 96%CIN
  • 59%AKR
  • 40%HCU
  •  MICH
  •  MSU
  • 91%@MD
  •  @MINN
  • 79%NU
  • 88%USC
  • 78%@UCLA
  • 79%@PSU
  • 93%IOWA

No bar in a game where the team had under 100 rushing yards: a share of that little says nothing.

Who carried it

  • Emmett Johnson1,451 yards, 251 carries, 12 touchdowns
  • Mekhi Nelson147 yards, 27 carries, 2 touchdowns
  • Kwinten Ives133 yards, 20 carries, 2 touchdowns
  • TJ Lateef120 yards, 40 carries, 4 touchdowns
  • Isaiah Mozee115 yards, 26 carries
  • 7 others63 yards

Share of the team's total this season.

Style of play

Style of play

Play style

Cuts upfield fast. Designed to find the crease, not run through the line.

Boom vs consistent · carry-yardage shape

Steady, not spectacular

248Carries
1447Yards
17.6%Top-5 share
8.5%Stuffed rate

Just 17.6% of the season's rushing yards came on the 5 best carries — remarkably even — and the back is stuffed on 8.5% of carries. 14 carries for 63 yds vs Minnesota; 28 for 216 vs Iowa.

Counted from the play-by-play, so a carry or two can differ from the box score.

Closer · Q4-with-lead carry share

Not actually a closer

61.0%Carry share
40.5%Q4-lead share
100.0%In competitive games

61.0% of carries overall (250/410) → 40.5% of Q4-with-lead carries (17/42) — 100.0% of those in competitive (≤16-pt) games.

Counted from the play-by-play, so a carry or two can differ from the box score.

Short-yardage / goal-line · enumeration

Who gets the tough yard

20/273rd/4th & short
15/23Inside-5 share

20 of 27 on 3rd/4th-and-2-or-less (74.1%). 15 of the team's 23 inside-the-5 carries (65.2%).

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