Bucs sign Lesean McCoy
This is a couple of days old but I haven't seen mention of it.
The Tampa Bay backfield just got even more crowded with Ronald Jones already holding onto the starting job by a thread.
Jones was barely worth having on your team last season, and I personally don't see it getting much better for him this season. This has all the makings of a big time RB by committee. I plan to steer clear of any RB for the Bucs.
They supposedly signed McCoy for receiving purposes, but he could certainly steal a few carries a game as well. He's starting to remind me of Frank Gore, hanging around forever signing one year deal from team to team.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29566452/veteran-rb-lesean-mccoy-reaches-deal-bucs
I see Jones getting about 18 carries and 2 receptions per game (on average). As I said above, I think Tampa's offense will have more plays to the RB's because I believe they'll be winning more games.
I think the Bucs have a legit shot at 11 wins this year. In the 7 games that Tampa won last year, their rush attempts (by RB's), were: 27, 29, 23, 25, 25, 22, 22... so they averaged almost 25 rush attempts per game. Arians is NOT going to give the ball to Vaughn or Ogunbowale at the end of games to run out the clock... it'll be Jones and McCoy. Jones getting 18 carries and 2 receptions in those 11 games is certainly reasonable. That's 220 touches.
In 4 of their 9 losses, they had over 21 attempts per game. So, let's say in the 5 losses, Jones gets 15 rushes and 2 receptions. That's 85 touches.
That's 305 total touches, meaning 19 touches per game. Is that close to 20? I think so. In my above post, if he maintains the 0.84 fp per touch, that's almost 16 fpg. That's solid RB2 territory.