2012 Broncos Season Review: Running Backs

The 2012 season is over for the Broncos and many have begun turning to free agency and draft talk but before that happened I wanted to review the Broncos position by position. This is purely looking back on the production of each player in 2012, this is not a discussion about what players I think should stay or go. Instead I want to present the data on the 2012 season before we start making decisions about what should change.

Here's the positions we've already review:

- Quarterbacks

Today we'll be reviewing the running backs.

Basic Info

So in this table we'll be looking at a few topics
- Name of the player
- Their current age
- Games they saw at least one snap
- Snaps played during the 2012 season
- Years left on their contract

Name	Age	Snaps	Games	Contract Years Left
Ball, Lance	27	151	15	0
Gronkowski, Chris	26	30	14	0
Hester, Jacob	27	80	3	1
Hillman, Ronnie	21	258	14	3
McGahee, Willis	31	399	10	2
Moreno, Knowshon	25	369	8	1 (2 Year Option)
Team Totals	26	1287

2012 Rushing Production

Here's what's in this table
- Name of the player
- Rushing attempts
- Rushing yards
- Rushing touchdowns
- Longest rush
- Rushing yards per attempts
- Rushing yards per game
- Rushing attempts per game

*This is a sortable table*

Name	Attps	Yards	TD's	Long	Y/A	Yds/G	Attps/G
Ball, Lance	42	158	1	22	3.8	10.5	2.8
Gronkowski, Chris	0	0	0	0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Hester, Jacob	17	81	2	18	4.8	27	5.7
Hillman, Ronnie	84	327	1	31	3.9	23.4	6.0
McGahee, Willis	167	731	4	31	4.4	73.1	16.7
Moreno, Knowshon	139	525	4	20	3.8	65.6	17.4
Team Totals	449	1822	12	31	4.1	114	28.1

2012 Receiving Production

Here's what's in this table
- Name of the player
- Receiving attempts
- Receiving yards
- Receiving touchdowns
- Longest reception
- Receiving yards per attempts
- Receiving yards per game
- Receiving attempts per game

*This is a sortable table*

Name	Rec	Yards	TD's	Long	Y/R	Yds/G	Attps/G
Ball, Lance	7	61	1	17	8.7	4.1	0.5
Gronkowski, Chris	1	11	0	11	11	0.8	0.1
Hester, Jacob	1	7	0	7	7	2.3	0.3
Hillman, Ronnie	10	62	0	29	6.2	4.4	0.7
McGahee, Willis	23	221	0	31	8.5	22.1	2.6
Moreno, Knowshon	21	167	0	26	8.0	20.9	2.6
Team Totals	66	529	1	31	8.0	33.1	4.1

2012 Total Production

Here's what's in this table
- Name of the player
- Total touches, rushing attempts plus receptions
- Total yards
- Yards per touch
- Missed tackles forced
- Missed tackle per touch
- Total touchdowns
- Touchdown percentage, touchdowns divided by touches
- Fumbles
- Fumble percentage, fumbles divided by touches

*This is a sortable table*

Name	Touches	TotYards	Y/T	MT	MT/T	TotTD	TD%	Fumb	Fumb%
Ball, Lance	49	219	4.47	6	0.12	2	4.08%	1	2.04%
Gronkowski, Chris	1	11	11	0	0.00	0	0.00%	0	0.00%
Hester, Jacob	18	88	4.89	1	0.06	2	11.11%	0	0.00%
Hillman, Ronnie	94	389	4.14	8	0.09	1	1.06%	2	2.13%
McGahee, Willis	193	952	4.93	19	0.10	4	2.07%	5	2.59%
Moreno, Knowshon	160	692	4.33	14	0.09	4	2.50%	1	0.63%
Team Totals	515	2351	4.57	48	0.09	13	2.52%	9	1.75%

2012 Pass Blocking

Here's what's in this table
- Name of the player
- Snaps spent as a pass blocker
- Sacks given up
- Hits given up
- Hurries given up
- Total pressures
- Pure pass rushing productivity, total pressure given up divided by snaps in pass defense turned in a percentage
- Weighted Pass Rushing Productivity, gives more weight to sacks, created by Pro Football Focus

*This is a sortable table*

Name	Snaps	Sacks	Hits	Hurries	Total Pressures	Pure PRP	Weighted PRP
Ball, Lance	23	1	1	0	2	91.3%	95.2
Gronkowski, Chris	2	0	0	0	0	100.0%	100.0
Hester, Jacob	11	0	0	0	0	100.0%	100.0
Hillman, Ronnie	31	1	0	0	1	96.8%	96.3
McGahee, Willis	47	0	0	2	2	95.7%	96.5
Moreno, Knowshon	56	1	0	1	2	96.4%	96.5
Team Totals	170	3	1	3	7	95.9%	97.4

Notes:

- It should be noted that Hester's numbers will be a bit higher per game than the rest of the group since his game count was so low while Moreno's will be lower because of his early season games where he saw snaps but was VERY limited until his resurgence late int he season.

- Fumbles were a major issue for Ball, McGahee and Hillman, all of whom posted an over 2.0% fumble rate.

- Hester really showed what a weapon he is in the red zone.

- All of the Broncos backs saw significant time catching passes out of the backfield, even Ball, Hester and Hillman saw success in that role.