Yahoo Fantasy Rookie Snapshot - RB Cam Akers
On a special edition of the the Yahoo Fantasy Football Podcast, Liz Loza and Eric Edholm break down NFL Prospect Cam Akers and the statistic that defines the former Florida State running back. Subscribe to the Yahoo Fantasy Football Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
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LIZ LOZA: Give me a stat that you think really exemplifies his skill set.
ERIC EDHOLM: Yeah, so what we were just saying, 76 avoided tackles courtesy of our friends at Pro Football Focus, on 231 rush attempts. So basically, every three runs, he's making at least one guy miss, and sometimes two guys on the same run, too.
So I love the fact that-- there are great one cut and go runners, out there and I appreciate the heck out of them, because they're north-south, you know I mean? They really do the job and everything. But there is something special about a guy who can do what he does. And I just love his style.
LIZ LOZA: So, again the lucidity that he has, his shiftiness, I think is exemplified in the fact that 67% of his total rushing yards came after contact. So 768 of his 1,144 yards came after contact. That is bananas to me.
And I also think this is a player who benefited from the combine, because you couldn't really see all that he could do on tape because of the factors we've already mentioned.
And then he went to Indianapolis and flipping crushed it like some of that horseradish cocktail sauce at St. Elmo's. He had fire in his feet. He ran the 40-yard dash in 4.47 seconds, which was top five, 20 reps during the [? best ?] bench press. That was top nine. And he also lit up that new-- the Duce Staley drill, which I think--
ERIC EDHOLM: Oh, yeah.
LIZ LOZA: --really showed off the skills that we're talking about his, his dual threat ability as a receiver and a rusher.