which rb has the most yards per att in a season maximum 298 att

Antone Smith has the most rushing yards per attempt by a running back in a season with 298 or fewer rush attempts, with 29.0 per attempt in 2013.

Regular season

	NAME	YPC	ATT	SEASON	TM	GP	RUSH YDS	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD	REC YDS	REC	TRG	AVG	REC YDS/G	REC TD
1	Antone Smith A. Smith	29.0	5	2013	ATL	15	145	9.7	2	10	2	3	5.0	0.7	0
2	Fred McAfee F. McAfee	27.0	2	2004	NO	11	54	4.9	0	0	0	0		0.0	0
3	Billy Kinard B. Kinard	27.0	1	1956	CLE	7	27	3.9	1	0	0			0.0	0
4	Kevin Harmon K. Harmon	24.0	1	1989	SEA	4	24	6.0	0	0	0			0.0	0
5	Chad Morton C. Morton	22.0	1	2006	NYG	15	22	1.5	0	0	0	0		0.0	0
6	Montell Owens M. Owens	21.5	2	2008	JAX	16	43	2.7	2	17	2	3	8.5	1.1	0
7	Bobby Morse B. Morse	21.5	2	1989	NO	11	43	3.9	0	0	0			0.0	0
8	Boyd Dowler B. Dowler	20.0	1	1959	GB	12	20	1.7	0	549	32		17.2	45.8	4
9	Ken Jenkins K. Jenkins	19.5	2	1985	WAS	13	39	3.0	0	0	0			0.0	0
10	Jorvorskie Lane J. Lane	19.3	3	2014	TB	9	58	6.4	0	3	1	1	3.0	0.3	0
11	Kregg Lumpkin K. Lumpkin	19.0	1	2008	GB	2	19	9.5	0	22	3	3	7.3	11.0	0
12	Joel Makovicka J. Makovicka	19.0	1	2001	ARI	16	19	1.2	0	95	16	28	5.9	5.9	1
13	Joe Barnes J. Barnes	19.0	1	1974	CHI	3	19	6.3	0	0	0			0.0	0
14	Fred McAfee F. McAfee	18.5	2	2000	NO	12	37	3.1	0	0	0	0		0.0	0
15	Rocky Bleier R. Bleier	17.0	1	1972	PIT	14	17	1.2	0	0	0			0.0	0
16	Rod Phillips R. Phillips	16.7	3	1979	STL	11	50	4.5	1	0	0			0.0	0
17	George Layne G. Layne	15.0	1	2003	ATL	3	15	5.0	0	3	1	2	3.0	1.0	0
18	Jeff Moore J. Moore	15.0	1	1981	SEA	2	15	7.5	0	18	3		6.0	9.0	0
19	Dave Gagnon D. Gagnon	15.0	1	1974	CHI	13	15	1.2	0	20	4		5.0	1.5	0
20	Dutch Elston D. Elston	15.0	1	1942	CLE	11	15	1.4	0	58	4		14.5	5.3	0
21	Ray Pelfrey R. Pelfrey	14.7	3	1951	GB	12	44	3.7	0	462	38		12.2	38.5	5
22	Jeff Demps J. Demps	14.0	1	2013	TB	2	14	7.0	0	21	3	3	7.0	10.5	0
23	Jerald Sowell J. Sowell	14.0	2	2004	NYJ	16	28	1.8	0	342	45	59	7.6	21.4	1
24	Tony Jones T. Jones	13.8	4	2024	ARI	1	55	55.0	1	0	0	0		0.0	0
25	DeShawn Wynn D. Wynn	13.8	8	2008	GB	5	110	22.0	1	30	3	3	10.0	6.0	0

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