Fantasy football reliability ratings: Running backs

August 1, 2011 @ 00:13:10

By KFFL Staff

QB | RB | WR | TE | PK | DT

Player consistency is important to fantasy football owners. While you will never be able to predict exactly how a player is going to perform any given week, looking at historical trends helps identify some of the most consistent players in the NFL on a per-game basis over the past several seasons.

A few of these players experience spikes or dips in their per-game productivity from year to year but remain consistent in terms of their body of work over the period of seasons. Select years were removed to account for injury or sheer abnormality.

Player	Tm	Year	Avg Pts
Adrian Peterson	MIN	2007	16.3
	MIN	2008	15.1
	MIN	2009	17.3
	MIN	2010	15.6
Average points			16.1
Frank Gore	SF	2006	16.2
	SF	2007	11.7
	SF	2008	12.8
	SF	2009	13.6
	SF	2010	13.7
Average points			13.7
Michael Turner	ATL	2009	13.2
	ATL	2010	13.1
Average points			13.1
Steven Jackson	STL	2007	13.2
	STL	2008	15.1
	STL	2009	12.3
	STL	2010	11.5
Average points			12.9
Pierre Thomas	NO	2008	10.0
	NO	2009	10.0
	NO	2010	9.0
Average points			9.8
Tim Hightower	ARI	2009	8.6
	ARI	2008	7.0
	ARI	2010	6.7
Average points			7.4
Felix Jones	DAL	2008	6.1
	DAL	2009	5.5
	DAL	2010	7.8
Average points			6.6
Donald Brown	IND	2009	5.2
	IND	2010	5.5
Average points			5.3

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