The Green Bay Packers rushed for only 66 yards in their Thursday Night Football victory over the Carolina Panthers. Josh Jacobs, in his second game back from the Commissioner’s exempt list, rushed 21 times for 39 yards and a touchdown. That’s a 1.9-yard-per-carry average, not exactly what Packers fans were hoping for with his return. Over the season, his ypc is a bit better, though it is still only 2.3.
Jacobs isn’t the only Packers running back struggling. MarShawn Lloyd has carried the ball 57 times for 149 yards and 2 scores, for a 2.6-yard-per-carry average. Pierre Strong Jr. has rushed 17 times for 37 yards, for 2.2 ypc. Green Bay ranks dead last in rushing with only 485 yards on the season. Compare that to the Chicago Bears, who have 1,080 yards on the season, or the Falcons’ Bijan Robinson, who has 704 yards on his own.
They are the first team in NFL history to have a running record after eight games with fewer than 500 rushing yards.…