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Originally Posted by RedinTexas
I was looking through some Super Bowl records on Pro-Football-Reference and saw one that had a surprise.
Career rushing yards/attempt (Super Bowl)
1. Marcus Allen • 1G 9.6
2. Timmy Smith • 1G 9.3
3. Dominic Rhodes • 1G 5.4
4. Walt Garrison • 2G 5.3
5. Patrick Mahomes • 3G 5.3
6. Tony Dorsett • 2G 5.2
7. Larry Csonka • 3G 5.2
8. Willie Parker • 2G 5
9. Kenneth Davis • 4G 4.8
10. Joseph Addai • 2G 4.8
Patrick is the only QB listed there.
ETA - On further consideration, this is even more surprising than I first thought. On the last possession in Super Bowl 54, he had 3 kneel downs for -15 yards. On the last possession of the 1st half in Super Bowl 55 Patrick had one kneel down for -1 yards. On our last possession in Super Bowl 57, he had 2 kneel downs for -7 yards. Google says Patrick has 20 career rushing attempts in the Super Bowl, so at 5.3 yards/rush, that is 106 yards. Subtracting out the 6 kneel downs gives him 14 rushing attempts and adding back the kneel down yardage of -15, -1,and -7 raises his yardage total to 129. So, without the kneel downs, Patrick is 9.2 yards/rush. That would raise him up to #3 on the list.
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It is so ****ing stupid that kneel downs are recorded as a rushing attempt. It's ****ed him over his whole career. His actual ypc overall is insane if he didn't have so many kneel downs. (Good problem to have, I know.)