Prompted by Le’Veon Bell’s remarkable stretch towards the end of last season, I took a look at the greatest four-game stretches by a fantasy running back over at Footballguys.com:
In the Steelers 11th game of the year, LeVeon Bell rushed for 204 yards and a touchdown. In his next game, he totaled 254 yards from scrimmage against the Saints and ran for another score. In Pittsburgh’s 13th game of the season, Bell scored three times against the Bengals while gaining 235 yards from scrimmage. Finally, against the Falcons, Bell totaled 119 yards and ran for two touchdowns.
Over that four-game stretch, Bell scored seven touchdowns, gained 830 yards from scrimmage, and caught 21 passes. If we use a scoring system that provides 0.5 points per reception and the standard 1 point for 10 yards rushing/receiving and 6 points for touchdowns. That translates to 135.5 fantasy points over such period, which is obviously an insane amount of points. But how insane? Only six other running backs since 1960 have had greater four-game stretches. Let’s go to the list.
You can read the full article here. Suffice it to say, Bell is in some pretty rare company.