most average yards per touch by a rb in nfl history

Bruce Maxwell has the most career yards per attempt per touch by a running back, with 9.

	NAME	AVG/TOUCHES	AVG	TOUCHES	GP	RUSH YDS	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD	REC YDS	REC	TRG	REC AVG	REC YDS/G	REC TD
1	Bruce Maxwell B. Maxwell	9	9.0	1	11	9	1	9.0	0.8	0	0	0			0.0	0
2	Jonas Lewis J. Lewis	6	6.0	1	11	6	1	6.0	0.5	0	0	0	0		0.0	0
3	Beno Bryant B. Bryant	6	6.0	1	2	6	1	6.0	3.0	0	0	0			0.0	0
4	Kory Sheets K. Sheets	5	5.0	1	2	5	1	5.0	2.5	0	0	0	0		0.0	0
5	A.J. Schable	5	5.0	1	11	5	1	5.0	0.5	0	0	0	0		0.0	0
6	Fred DiRenzo F. DiRenzo	5	5.0	1	1	5	1	5.0	5.0	0	0	0			0.0	0
7	Richard Williams R. Williams	5	5.0	1	22	5	1	5.0	0.2	0	0	0			0.0	0
8	Derrick Foster D. Foster	4.5	9.0	2	3	9	1	9.0	3.0	0	9	1		9.0	3.0	0
9	Kevin Harmon K. Harmon	4.11	12.3	3	9	37	3	12.3	4.1	0	0	0			0.0	0
10	Teddy Farmer T. Farmer	4	4.0	1	2	4	1	4.0	2.0	0	0	0			0.0	0
11	Tim Harris T. Harris	3.75	7.5	2	14	15	2	7.5	1.1	0	0	0			0.0	0
12	Jeff Demps J. Demps	3.5	14.0	4	2	14	1	14.0	7.0	0	21	3	3	7.0	10.5	0
13	Randy Cuthbert R. Cuthbert	3.5	7.0	2	11	7	1	7.0	0.6	0	3	1		3.0	0.3	0
14	Pete Van Valkenburg P. Van Valkenburg	3.33	10.0	3	24	20	2	10.0	0.8	0	7	1		7.0	0.3	0
15	Ian Smart I. Smart	3.25	13.0	4	4	26	2	13.0	6.5	0	10	2	2	5.0	2.5	0
16	Jacques Patrick J. Patrick	3	6.0	2	2	12	2	6.0	6.0	0	0	0	0		0.0	0
17	Trey Ragas T. Ragas	3	9.0	3	1	9	1	9.0	9.0	0	6	2	2	3.0	6.0	0
18	Nathan Cottrell N. Cottrell	3	3.0	1	12	3	1	3.0	0.3	0	0	0	0		0.0	0
19	Trey Williams T. Williams	3	6.0	2	2	12	2	6.0	6.0	0	0	0	0		0.0	0
20	Manase Tonga M. Tonga	3	12.0	4	11	12	1	12.0	1.1	0	18	3	4	6.0	1.6	0
21	Nehemiah Broughton N. Broughton	3	3.0	1	6	3	1	3.0	0.5	0	0	0	0		0.0	0
22	Steve Hendrickson S. Hendrickson	3	3.0	1	40	3	1	3.0	0.1	0	0	0			0.0	0
23	Ken Zachary K. Zachary	3	3.0	1	3	3	1	3.0	1.0	0	0	0			0.0	0
24	Joe McCall J. McCall	3	3.0	1	3	3	1	3.0	1.0	0	0	0			0.0	0
25	David Nelson D. Nelson	3	3.0	1	2	3	1	3.0	1.5	0	0	0			0.0	0

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