Here's the interesting thing. Teams have been attacking Calitro on the outside zone and with those little slip screens to the running back. I'm wondering if the addition of Kendricks offsets the success teams are having because a veteran like Kendricks is less likely to fall for the misdirection and less likely to bite inside on the outside zone. If you look at the 3 games with Kendricks, although we weren't great against backs, we didn't give up more than 50 yards receiving to RBs and the only back to break 100 yards on the ground was Zeke. Every other back averaged less than 3.5 yards per carry.
The numbers would also indicate a healthy KJ completely shuts down the screen game. It's hard to draw too many conclusions given he only played significant snaps in one game and in the games he was limited in, teams moved the ball pretty easily on us. With that said, in the only game he saw a significant number of snaps he helped shut down Melvin Gordon, holding him to his second-lowest receiving total on the season, 1 reception for 10 yards.
