Light Box Rate Leaders

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.

FTN's box count, not Next Gen Stats'. The two count defenders differently, so this board and the stacked box board are not two ends of one number.

New to this stat? What light box rate means.