Rudi Johnson

RB · CIN/DET · 2002–2008

Born October 1, 1979 · College Auburn; Butler County JC · Drafted 2001, round 4, pick 100 (CIN) · 5-10, 225 lb

Pro Bowl (2004)

EPA per carry by season

Filled dot: stabilised, with its 90% interval. Ring: the raw season rate.

Rushing

Season	Team	G	Carries	Yds	TD	YPC	EPA/carry	Stabilised EPA/carry	Success %	Rush EPA	Rush WPA (wins)
2002	CIN	4	17	67	0	3.94	+0.098	−0.103−0.167 to −0.039	41.2	+1.7	+0.17
2003	CIN	13	214	967	9	4.52	−0.004	−0.056−0.111 to −0.000	40.4	−0.8	+0.68
2004	CIN	16	362	1,457	12	4.02	−0.122	−0.072−0.123 to −0.021	38.7	−45.5	−0.76
2005	CIN	16	337	1,458	12	4.33	+0.013	−0.030−0.081 to +0.022	43.9	+4.4	+0.14
2005 playoffs	CIN	1	13	56	1	4.31	−0.014		15.4	−0.2	−0.02
2006	CIN	16	341	1,308	12	3.84	−0.079	−0.062−0.114 to −0.010	38.7	−27.3	−0.33
2007	CIN	11	170	497	3	2.92	−0.228	−0.122−0.179 to −0.065	34.5	−39.0	−1.01
2008	DET	13	76	237	1	3.12	−0.201	−0.091−0.152 to −0.030	24.4	−15.7	−0.25
Career	DET	89	1,517	5,991	49	3.95	−0.079		39.0	−122.2	−1.37

Receiving

Season	Team	G	Targets	Rec	Yds	TD	Catch %	EPA/target	Target share %	aDOT	Rec EPA	Rec WPA (wins)
2002	CIN	4	10	6	34	0	60.0	−0.216	6.5	–	−2.2	−0.11
2003	CIN	13	23	21	146	0	91.3	+0.238	5.7	–	+5.5	+0.15
2004	CIN	16	28	15	84	0	53.6	−0.788	5.4	–	−22.1	−0.51
2005	CIN	16	30	23	90	0	76.7	−0.339	5.6	–	−10.2	−0.27
2005 playoffs	CIN	1	2	2	14	0	100.0	+0.510	5.1	–	+1.0	+0.03
2006	CIN	16	31	23	124	0	74.2	−0.058	6.0	0.2	−1.8	−0.09
2007	CIN	11	16	13	110	1	81.2	+0.331	3.7	1.8	+5.3	+0.11
2008	DET	13	14	12	88	1	85.7	+0.124	3.4	1.1	+1.7	+0.03
Career	DET	89	152	113	676	2	74.3	−0.156	5.1	0.8	−23.7	−0.69

Defence

Counting stats from the play-by-play credits (QB hits from 2006, tackles for loss and passes defensed from 2009).

Season	Team	G	Tackles	QB hits	Tackles for loss	Passes defensed
2003	CIN	13	1	–	–	–
2008	DET	13	1	0	–	–
Career	DET	89	2	0	0	0

Honours

Honours: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), matched to players through Wikidata (CC0). Awards and All-Pro teams are the Associated Press’s; Pro Bowl selections include replacements.

Season	Honours
2004	Pro Bowl

Game logs

2008 game log (13 games)

2008 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA	Tackles
1	2008-09-07	@ ATL	L 21–34	3	14	0	+0.2	0	0	0	0	0.0	1
2	2008-09-14	vs GB	L 25–48	1	2	0	−1.4	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
3	2008-09-21	@ SF	L 13–31	14	83	0	+3.2	4	3	48	1	+3.5	0
5	2008-10-05	vs CHI	L 7–34	5	23	0	−0.4	3	3	9	0	−2.7	0
6	2008-10-12	@ MIN	L 10–12	17	38	0	−7.0	2	1	4	0	+0.6	0
7	2008-10-19	@ HOU	L 21–28	6	8	0	−2.7	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
8	2008-10-26	vs WAS	L 17–25	8	21	1	−1.6	1	1	10	0	+1.1	0
9	2008-11-02	@ CHI	L 23–27	8	19	0	−1.9	2	2	13	0	+0.7	0
10	2008-11-09	vs JAX	L 14–38	2	4	0	−0.8	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
11	2008-11-16	@ CAR	L 22–31	5	5	0	−1.3	1	1	5	0	−0.7	0
12	2008-11-23	vs TB	L 20–38	4	16	0	−1.2	0	0	0	0	0.0	0
14	2008-12-07	vs MIN	L 16–20	1	2	0	−0.3	1	1	-1	0	−0.9	0
15	2008-12-14	@ IND	L 21–31	2	2	0	−0.5	0	0	0	0	0.0	0

2007 game log (11 games)

2007 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec TD	Rec EPA
1	2007-09-10	vs BAL	W 27–20	18	50	0	−8.4	4	3	26	0	+0.8
2	2007-09-16	@ CLE	L 45–51	23	118	0	−3.8	5	4	33	1	+3.2
3	2007-09-23	@ SEA	L 21–24	17	9	0	−8.1	2	1	33	0	+2.3
6	2007-10-14	@ KC	L 20–27	4	8	0	−1.3	0	0	0	0	0.0
9	2007-11-04	@ BUF	L 21–33	9	11	0	−2.9	1	1	6	0	−0.1
10	2007-11-11	@ BAL	W 21–7	22	46	0	−5.4	1	1	2	0	−0.3
11	2007-11-18	vs ARI	L 27–35	8	25	0	−1.5	1	1	2	0	−0.4
12	2007-11-25	vs TEN	W 35–6	25	88	1	+0.2	0	0	0	0	0.0
13	2007-12-02	@ PIT	L 10–24	14	34	1	−2.9	0	0	0	0	0.0
14	2007-12-09	vs LA	W 19–10	23	92	1	−2.8	1	1	1	0	−0.8
15	2007-12-15	@ SF	L 13–20	7	16	0	−2.1	1	1	7	0	+0.6

2006 game log (16 games)

2006 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec EPA
1	2006-09-10	@ KC	W 23–10	28	96	1	−1.0	1	1	7	+0.4
2	2006-09-17	vs CLE	W 34–17	26	145	2	+3.8	2	2	3	−0.7
3	2006-09-24	@ PIT	W 28–20	19	47	0	−5.0	2	2	10	+0.7
4	2006-10-01	vs NE	L 13–38	14	65	1	+1.4	3	3	26	+1.1
6	2006-10-15	@ TB	L 13–14	17	52	0	−3.5	2	0	0	−1.1
7	2006-10-22	vs CAR	W 17–14	26	101	0	−6.2	1	1	4	−0.1
8	2006-10-29	vs ATL	L 27–29	12	46	1	−0.6	3	2	8	+0.6
9	2006-11-05	@ BAL	L 20–26	18	77	1	+3.4	2	1	2	−0.7
10	2006-11-12	vs LAC	L 41–49	18	85	1	+0.6	1	1	4	−0.2
11	2006-11-19	@ NO	W 31–16	27	111	0	−2.7	1	1	7	+0.3
12	2006-11-26	@ CLE	W 30–0	25	64	1	−2.0	1	1	0	−0.8
13	2006-11-30	vs BAL	W 13–7	16	47	0	−6.0	2	2	17	+0.7
14	2006-12-10	vs LV	W 27–10	30	117	2	−2.7	1	1	5	+0.1
15	2006-12-18	@ IND	L 16–34	22	79	1	−1.8	2	2	17	+1.3
16	2006-12-24	@ DEN	L 23–24	30	129	1	−2.8	4	2	11	−0.7
17	2006-12-31	vs PIT	L 17–23 OT	13	47	0	−2.2	3	1	3	−2.6

2005 game log (17 games)

2005 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec EPA
1	2005-09-11	@ CLE	W 27–13	26	126	1	+3.4	2	2	12	+0.2
2	2005-09-18	vs MIN	W 37–8	22	90	0	−2.0	2	1	3	−0.9
3	2005-09-25	@ CHI	W 24–7	25	84	0	−2.5	2	2	-2	−1.5
4	2005-10-02	vs HOU	W 16–10	19	88	0	−1.0	1	0	0	−0.5
5	2005-10-09	@ JAX	L 20–23	18	76	0	−3.5	2	2	7	−0.4
6	2005-10-16	@ TEN	W 31–23	18	80	1	−0.2	1	1	3	−0.3
7	2005-10-23	vs PIT	L 13–27	12	65	0	+1.3	4	2	1	−2.7
8	2005-10-30	vs GB	W 21–14	22	72	0	−2.2	1	1	0	−0.8
9	2005-11-06	@ BAL	W 21–9	29	97	1	−1.3	2	1	15	+0.5
11	2005-11-20	vs IND	L 37–45	16	76	2	+2.3	2	2	9	+0.1
12	2005-11-27	vs BAL	W 42–29	27	114	2	−0.4	1	1	5	+0.1
13	2005-12-04	@ PIT	W 38–31	21	98	2	+6.4	1	1	5	−0.2
14	2005-12-11	vs CLE	W 23–20	30	169	1	+4.5	4	3	11	−2.1
15	2005-12-18	@ DET	W 41–17	24	117	2	+1.9	2	1	14	−0.3
16	2005-12-24	vs BUF	L 27–37	18	88	0	+0.5	2	2	8	−0.3
17	2006-01-01	@ KC	L 3–37	10	18	0	−3.0	1	1	-1	−1.2
P18	2006-01-08	vs PIT	L 17–31	13	56	1	−0.2	2	2	14	+1.0

2004 game log (16 games)

2004 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec EPA
1	2004-09-12	@ NYJ	L 24–31	24	70	1	−13.7	1	0	0	−0.7
2	2004-09-19	vs MIA	W 16–13	22	67	0	−6.2	1	1	4	−0.1
3	2004-09-26	vs BAL	L 9–23	23	98	0	−1.5	1	0	0	−0.4
4	2004-10-03	@ PIT	L 17–28	24	123	1	+5.6	2	0	0	−0.8
6	2004-10-17	@ CLE	L 17–34	16	57	0	−1.9	3	1	0	−1.5
7	2004-10-25	vs DEN	W 23–10	24	119	1	−4.9	0	0	0	0.0
8	2004-10-31	@ TEN	L 20–27	17	57	1	−1.7	3	2	4	−1.5
9	2004-11-07	vs DAL	W 26–3	26	95	0	+0.8	5	4	19	−0.4
10	2004-11-14	@ WAS	W 17–10	31	102	1	−9.9	0	0	0	0.0
11	2004-11-21	vs PIT	L 14–19	16	62	0	−4.7	2	1	1	−1.2
12	2004-11-28	vs CLE	W 58–48	26	202	2	+12.3	2	1	5	−6.6
13	2004-12-05	@ BAL	W 27–26	19	56	0	−2.8	1	1	3	−0.3
14	2004-12-12	@ NE	L 28–35	24	89	0	−6.8	2	2	35	+2.8
15	2004-12-19	vs BUF	L 17–33	23	130	1	−3.8	2	0	0	−11.0
16	2004-12-26	vs NYG	W 23–22	19	31	1	−8.6	3	2	13	−0.3
17	2005-01-02	@ PHI	W 38–10	28	99	3	+2.4	0	0	0	0.0

2003 game log (13 games)

2003 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush TD	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec EPA	Tackles
4	2003-09-28	@ CLE	W 21–14	15	51	0	−0.9	4	4	11	−0.0	0
5	2003-10-05	@ BUF	L 16–22 OT	20	69	1	−3.7	2	1	10	−0.3	0
7	2003-10-19	vs BAL	W 34–26	3	5	0	−0.2	0	0	0	0.0	0
8	2003-10-26	vs SEA	W 27–24	27	101	1	−1.7	2	2	16	+0.6	0
9	2003-11-02	@ ARI	L 14–17	8	34	1	+0.5	1	0	0	−0.1	1
10	2003-11-09	vs HOU	W 34–27	43	182	2	+5.6	2	2	18	+1.0	0
11	2003-11-16	vs KC	W 24–19	22	165	0	+2.0	2	2	12	−0.4	0
12	2003-11-23	@ LAC	W 34–27	16	65	0	−3.5	2	2	21	+0.5	0
13	2003-11-30	@ PIT	W 24–20	10	29	0	−2.7	1	1	4	+0.1	0
14	2003-12-07	@ BAL	L 13–31	4	10	0	−1.1	1	1	4	−0.1	0
15	2003-12-14	vs SF	W 41–38	21	174	2	+9.3	2	2	8	−0.4	0
16	2003-12-21	@ LA	L 10–27	11	30	0	−5.4	2	2	17	+2.0	0
17	2003-12-28	vs CLE	L 14–22	14	52	2	+1.1	2	2	25	+2.7	0

2002 game log (4 games)

2002 game log

Week	Date	Opponent	Result	Carries	Rush yds	Rush EPA	Targets	Rec	Rec yds	Rec EPA
2	2002-09-15	@ CLE	L 7–20	5	24	+1.3	5	3	16	−2.0
13	2002-12-01	vs BAL	L 23–27	4	10	+0.8	3	1	3	−1.3
14	2002-12-08	@ CAR	L 31–52	5	8	−1.2	2	2	15	+1.2
17	2002-12-29	@ BUF	L 9–27	3	25	+0.7	0	0	0	0.0