Austin Ekeler led the Commanders backfield in scoring for the first time this season with 5.4 PPR points after handling a team-high 8 carries. He turned those into just 16 rushing yards, but his 18 receiving yards on 2 receptions pushed him to an RB4 finish in Week 9 pending Sunday- and Monday Night Football.
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Fellow RB Rachaad White still led Commanders RBs in rushing yards with 28 but it came on one less carry than Ekeler. White added another 41 yards on 2 receptions, but his 2 fumbles, including one lost, likely led to handling less rushing usage than Ekeler.
Ekeler has seen his rushing workload increase each game since Week 6, going from a 6.3% carry share to 30.8% in Week 8, before a team-high 42.1% carry share in Week 9. But his most recent season-high carry share was turned into just 2.0 yards per carry for his lowest mark over that span.
Fellow RB Jacory Croskey-Merritt remains on IR for at least one more week, leaving White and Ekeler to lead the Commanders backfield again, this time against a Giants defense reducing points to RBs by 4.6%.
Week 9 marks the first week that White didn’t account for the most rush attempts among the team’s RBs, but with Ekeler’s most recent efficiency struggles, White likely returns to the Commanders’ RB1 status ahead of Week 10.
