Falcons Daily: Cordarrelle Patterson vs. Nick Chubb, Atlanta’s run game to be put to the test vs. Browns

And this flip can be all nicely and good had Cleveland not been the chief in nearly each dashing class within the league up up to now.

The Browns lead the league in dashing yards in addition to time of possession. Let’s make it clear, although, the Falcons aren’t far behind.

Nick Chubb leads the league in dashing yards with 341 on 62 carries. He’s at the moment averaging 5.5 yards per carry. Patterson is 2 spots beneath Chubb on the league’s leaderboard, coming in because the third-leading rusher within the league with 302 dashing yards on 49 carries. He is averaging 6.1 yards per carry.

As a crew, the Browns common 5 yards a carry. The Falcons? Proper behind them at 4.9.

Cleveland has scored 5 dashing touchdowns. Atlanta? 4.

It is due to all of those stats mixed that this Week 4 matchup between the Falcons and Browns is shaping as much as be – as Smith mentioned – “a heavyweight combat.”

“They’ll attempt to grind you down,” Smith mentioned. “We now have to be able to go, particularly in run protection. We now have to sort out nicely. Arm tackles will not be going to deliver Chubb down. We now have to have the ability to grind via this sport.”

As Smith defined, it is on each strains of scrimmage to maintain the Falcons consistent with the Browns dashing assault. The offense has to match – or surpass – the Browns manufacturing, whereas the protection has to restrict it.

Somebody who will play a job in that is additionally somebody Smith mentioned helps the Falcons protection in a significant method, however doing so subtly.

That somebody is Ta’Quon Graham.