Every answer on this page comes from a backtest we ran ourselves on nflverse play-by-play — method stated, receipts shown. When the data said the popular belief was wrong, we printed that instead.
Methodology: computed from nflverse
play-by-play; a quarter's yards are the yards gained on plays snapped in
that quarter. Averages use each player's games played, not team games.
Updated 2026-07-29.
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