Now that we know receivers peak around age 25-27, what can we say about Running Backs?
Let's do the same excercise we did for receivers, but now for Running Backs. To do this, we need to take into account that most backs are both rushers and have receiving skills. This may confuse the issue a bit, so let's first take a look at pure rushing skills.
The numbers are all a bit earlier than for pure receivers, but the difference isn't that large. The most common "peak age" is surprisingly early though:
Pure rushers reach their peak 2 years earlier than receivers. As can be seen from the above though, there is some balance between increase/decrease until age 27.
However, in practice, we don't look at receivers as only rushers; most RBs today have receiving chops, or they don't survive in the NFL. So let's look at their "combined yardage", and draw conclusions from that:
It would seem that RBs reach their maximum around age 26, and gradually decline after that.
Let's do the same excercise we did for receivers, but now for Running Backs. To do this, we need to take into account that most backs are both rushers and have receiving skills. This may confuse the issue a bit, so let's first take a look at pure rushing skills.
The numbers are all a bit earlier than for pure receivers, but the difference isn't that large. The most common "peak age" is surprisingly early though:
However, in practice, we don't look at receivers as only rushers; most RBs today have receiving chops, or they don't survive in the NFL. So let's look at their "combined yardage", and draw conclusions from that:
It would seem that RBs reach their maximum around age 26, and gradually decline after that.
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