Light Box Rate Leaders
Light Box Rate — 2026 NFL leaders, updated Oct 17, 2026. Christian McCaffrey (SF) led the league in light box rate at 60.7%, ahead of 30 other qualifying players. Based on verified play-level charting from FTN Data via nflverse, regular season only. Through Week 6 of the 2026 season, with Sunday, Sunday night and Monday night still to come.
Light box rate is the share of a running back's designed runs that met a box of six or fewer defenders, counted by FTN's charters. Scrambles and quarterback runs are excluded. A light box is space the offense earned — usually by spreading the field or by a passing game the defense respects — so the stat describes what a back was given, not what he did with it. Rank 1 saw the most light boxes. It is not the inverse of the stacked box board, which counts eight or more defenders from Next Gen Stats tracking. In season every figure here is season to date, and before Week 4 it rests on two or three games — a gap of a few points between neighbours is noise until the sample grows.
| # | Player | Δ WK | G | Light% | Light | Runs | Read |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christian McCaffrey | No change | 5 | 60.7% | 37 | 61 | Read |
| 2 | J.K. Dobbins | Up 1 place, from 3 | 6 | 60.5% | 49 | 81 | Read |
| 3 | Jaylen Warren | Down 1 place, from 2 | 5 | 58.6% | 41 | 70 | Read |
| 4 | Kenneth Walker III | No change | 4 | 51.7% | 45 | 87 | Read |
| 5 | Tony Pollard | No change | 5 | 51.5% | 35 | 68 | Read |
| 6 | Jahmyr Gibbs | No change; did not play this week | 5 | 51.4% | 54 | 105 | Read |
| 7 | Bhayshul Tuten | No change | 5 | 51.2% | 42 | 82 | Read |
| 8 | Jacory Croskey-Merritt | No change | 5 | 50.7% | 34 | 67 | Read |
| 9 | Chuba Hubbard | No change | 4 | 49.2% | 30 | 61 | Read |
| 10 | Jonathan Taylor | No change | 5 | 47.5% | 48 | 101 | Read |
| 11 | Omarion Hampton | No change | 5 | 46.6% | 34 | 73 | Read |
| 12 | Quinshon Judkins | No change | 5 | 45.2% | 33 | 73 | Read |
| 13 | Bijan Robinson | No change | 5 | 45.1% | 46 | 102 | Read |
| 14 | D'Andre Swift | No change | 5 | 44.9% | 35 | 78 | Read |
| 15 | Javonte Williams | No change | 5 | 44.6% | 33 | 74 | Read |
| 16 | Aaron Jones | No change; did not play this week | 5 | 44.3% | 43 | 97 | Read |
| 17 | Jeremiyah Love | Up 1 place, from 18 | 5 | 43.3% | 29 | 67 | Read |
| 18 | Ashton Jeanty | Up 2 places, from 20 | 5 | 42.0% | 37 | 88 | Read |
| 19 | Cam Skattebo | Up 2 places, from 21 | 5 | 42.0% | 34 | 81 | Read |
| 20 | Kyle Monangai | Up 2 places, from 22 | 5 | 41.7% | 25 | 60 | Read |
| 21 | James Cook | Up 2 places, from 23 | 5 | 41.1% | 39 | 95 | Read |
| 22 | Chase Brown | Up 2 places, from 24; did not play this week | 5 | 40.8% | 29 | 71 | Read |
| 23 | Breece Hall | Up 2 places, from 25 | 5 | 40.0% | 20 | 50 | Read |
| 24 | Rhamondre Stevenson | Up 2 places, from 26 | 5 | 38.6% | 22 | 57 | Read |
| 25 | Bucky Irving | Up 2 places, from 27 | 5 | 37.7% | 29 | 77 | Read |
| 26 | Brian Robinson | Up 2 places, from 28 | 5 | 33.3% | 17 | 51 | Read |
| 27 | Kyren Williams | Up 2 places, from 29 | 5 | 32.9% | 23 | 70 | Read |
| 28 | Emanuel Wilson | Up 4 places, from 32 | 6 | 31.0% | 27 | 87 | Read |
| 29 | Derrick Henry | Up 1 place, from 30 | 5 | 27.4% | 31 | 113 | Read |
| 30 | Braelon Allen | Up 1 place, from 31 | 5 | 26.3% | 15 | 57 | Read |
| 31 | David Montgomery | Up 3 places, from 34 | 5 | 23.1% | 12 | 52 | Read |
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