Adrian Peterson leads the NFL in rushing despite leading the league in a seemingly contradictory stat.
Adrian Peterson leads the NFL in rushing … and in stuffs.
Peterson is back in the rushing lead as teams work through the bye-week portion of the schedule and even up in the number of games played this year. Peterson was behind two other players that hadn’t had their byes yet entering Week 9, but he has 758 yards through eight games after back-to-back 100-yard games for the Minnesota Vikings.
But he also easily leads the league in stuffs, a statistic by STATS LLC that counts the number of times Peterson has been dropped for negative-yardage runs.