Indeed, once you get past the 1000yd club there's a big drop-off to 4th best (Brandon Whitaker, Tor; 121att-636yds-5.3avg). Harris and Sutton co-led with four games of 100+ rushing yards; no one else had three. In fact, among the top 30 rushers in 2015 (and probably the whole league as the yardage total cutoff for that group is 155), there were only 14 100yd performances, and Lulay had one of those.David wrote:As much as I would have liked Andrew to win the rushing title, I do not have a problem with Sutton winning it with a 5.9 yard rushing average. In fact, I am not sure you should be winning the league's rushing title with a 4.7 average.sj roc wrote:Ssk pulled off a 30-24 upset in overtime in Mtl today to close out the regular season, but Als RB Tyrell Sutton had 22 carries for 139yds to pull ahead of Andrew Harris and capture the rushing title.
Sutton finishes the year with 1059yds on 180 carries (5.9 avg) to Harris's 1039 on 222 carries (4.7avg). Jerome Messam (163att-1006yds-6.2avg) is the only other 1000yd back this year.
To think, no one gained 1,000 yards within 16 games this year. In the days of the old 16 game CFL season with backs like Willie Burden, James Sykes, and Jimmy Edwards, that was almost unheard of.
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Harris's 222 carries were by far the most in 2015, followed by Sutton's 180 and JM's 163. There was a big drop-off after that to Wpg's Cameron Marshall with 134, although his Harris-like avg of 4.6 limited his total to 614.
Harris got the consolation prize of winning the yards from scrimmage title, although he seems to have benefitted at least somewhat from being the only player in the top ten of this category to have played the full 18 games on the sked.
