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Stat of the Week Sneak Preview of the Must-Have Book Dept.: I always love Football Outsiders...

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Stat of the Week Sneak Preview of the Must-Have Book Dept.: I always love Football Outsiders Almanac, in which Aaron Schatz and his footballoutsiders.com brethren attack stats and delve into gametape like few others can. (Football Outsiders Almanac 2010 is due in stores in July, by the way.) But the FO crew has just finished its annual breakdown of tackles broken and tackles missed, and two of the numbers that jumped out at me belonged to young turks Percy Harvin and Ray Rice. Harvin led all receivers in 2009 by a wide margin with 25 tackles broken (Wes Welker was next with 16). Here's the top 10 running backs in tackles broken in 2009: 1. Chris Johnson, Tennessee, 61 2. Ray Rice, Baltimore, 57 3. Adrian Peterson, Minnesota, 56. 4. Maurice Jones-Drew, Jacksonville, 52 5. Steven Jackson, St. Louis, 50 6. Jonathan Stewart, Carolina, 46 7. DeAngelo Williams, Carolina, 40 7. Rashard Mendenhall, Pittsburgh, 40 9. Fred Jackson, Buffalo, 35 10. Knowshon Moreno, Denver, 33 A broken tackle, as defined by Football Outsiders, is either a play in which the defender has the ballcarrier wrapped up -- or a play in which the ballcarrier fakes a defender out of his jock. Subjective, but you get the point. It's a good measure of hard runners and elusive runners, at the same time.

CJ led all RBs in broken/missed tackles in '09 (as if it's a surprise) Peter King - Stat of the week