Steven Jackson has very quietly put together a very solid career in St. Louis. He has ran for over 10000 yards in 9 seasons with the rams to go along with 56 rushing TD's. Throw in over 400 catches and another 3300 receiving yards and I say that's a pretty solid career. I know you may be saying he's too old or he only had just over 1000 rushing yards and only 4 TD's in 2012 or that his new team, the falcons, have the best WR combo in the league so why would they give it to Jackson?
Well that's where some very interesting stats come in about not only Jackson but the falcons rushing attack. The Falcons throw the ball down the field until they give it off to the RB in goal-to-go situations. Over the past 3 years the Falcons have ran the ball 136 times inside the opponents 10 yard line, over double the amount the rams did in the same time frame. This is the first ingredient in Jackson getting more TD's. Many fantasy owners were discouraged by Michael Turner's sub-par showing last year but, he still ended up with double digit TD's, so just think what Jackson could do.
Another asset of Jackson's game that can contribute to his big year is his receiving ability. As I mentioned before he has over 400 catches in 9 seasons including 38 catches last year and over 110 in the last 3 years. Plus last year the likes of Jaquizz Rodgers and Jason Snelling combined for 84 catches on 94 targets. So say Jackson takes away 1/3 of those targets that's about 31 targets and add that on to the 38 catches he had on 54 targets last season and you may be looking at between a 60-65 catch season.
What will also help is that he will play more on third downs than Michael Turner did and most of the targets that Rodgers on snelling saw last year were on third downs. Also he will most likely be in one on one match ups with LB's out of the backfield because the safeties have to help the corners with Jones and White on the outside.
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