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Bill Jandro -> RE: General Vikes Talk (6/17/2020 12:42:18 PM)
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Jones vs Cook
In any case, Jones has 534 touches in three years and has averaged 5.5 yards per touch with 32 combined rushing and receiving touchdowns. Cook has 561 touches for 5.4 yards per touch, but only has a combined 19 TD’s. Cook has so far required almost 11 more carries than Jones to score a single rushing TD, and where Jones has made a TD catch every 21 receptions, Cook has only caught a TD once every 52 catches.
And, oh yeah, Jones has four fumbles to Cook’s seven.
Jones has played in 40 games (38 with one or more rushing attempts) to Cook’s 29:
Games with over 5.0 yards per carry: Jones 17 (44.7%), Cook 11 (37.9%).
Games with between 4.0 and 4.9 ypc: Jones 7 (18.4%), Cook 3 (10.3%).
Games with under 4.0 ypc: Jones 14 (36.8%), Cook 15 (51.7%).
So, where Jones has averaged 4.0 or more ypc in over 63.1% of those 38 games, Cook has averaged under 4.0 ypc in 51.7% of his 29 games.
The more I look at the numbers, the closer I get to "Don’t extend Cook this off-season, at all. Just see how he does in 2020 and make a decision next year. And if the 2021 rookie running back class looks anything like how the 2017 one has turned out, maybe we can wait until Day 3 to take a RB this time." Some Day 3 rookie running back classes aren’t all that deep and you have to dig through a lot of dross to find a gem, but at least through the 5th round, that 2017 class was pretty packed.
By the way, I assume Jones is benefiting from the same contract provision that Elflein is with his number of starts causing him to get a bump in salary this year, but Jones is now actually scheduled to make just over $160,000 more in 2020 than Cook is, and honestly, it looks like he deserves it.
Stolen from DN
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