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Rico Dowdle

RB, Pittsburgh Steelers. This page is line history: what he did against the number the books posted, game by game, with the window and the sample size printed beside every figure. Records run through the 2025 season.

Data as of 2026-09-28 · team report
Lined games
50
2023-09-10 to 2026-09-20
Markets priced
5
101 graded market-games
Rushing yards, over rate
48%
10-11
21 decided of 21 lined
Games played
53
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Rushing yards against the posted line

Last 14 lined games · bar = what he did, number on the bar = the result, dash = the opening line (median of the books quoting it, each book's earliest capture) · teal over, red under
0255075100125150112vs NYG'24 W13131vs CINW14149at CARW1523vs TBW16104at PHIW1779at NYJ'25 W754vs BUFW8130at GBW945at ATLW1138at SFW1258vs LAW139vs LAWC15vs ATL'26 W122at NEW2

Counts of what happened against a real posted number, not a projection.

Matchup context

The game Pittsburgh Steelers plays next · 2025 regular season · rosters checked September 28
Week 4 · Thursday, October 1 · 8:15 PM ET
Pittsburgh Steelers at Cleveland Browns
Huntington Bank Field · grass · outdoor · division game

No one on the Panthers saw more rushing attempts than Dowdle in 2025: 236 of the 461 they called in the 17 regular season games he played. He is listed at 5-11 and 215 pounds, taller than 53 percent of the 201 running backs on a 2026 roster and heavier than 55 percent of them. He ran into eight or more defenders in the box on 21.4 percent of his carries, a stacked box less often than 73 percent of the 37 backs the league's tracking data qualified in 2025. The 17 defenses on the Steelers' 2026 schedule gave up 113.1 rushing yards a game last season; the 17 the Panthers met gave up 115.8.

Rushing matchup

What the defense he meets has given up on the ground, how often his offense runs, and how much of that is his
Cleveland Browns defense
2025 regular season · 17 games
Rushing yards allowed per game16th of 32 · 1st = fewest allowed116.4yds
Rushing attempts faced per game22nd of 32 · 1st = fewest faced27.9att
Yards allowed per rushing attempt10th of 32 · 1st = fewest allowed4.17yds
Rushing touchdowns allowed per game12th of 32 · 1st = fewest allowed0.82TD
Pittsburgh Steelers offense
2025 regular season · 17 games
Rushing attempts per game28th of 32 · 1st = most23.9att
Rushing yards per game26th of 32 · 1st = most103.3yds
Pass plays as a share of plays from scrimmage8th of 32 · 1st = most pass-heavy59%
Yards per rushing attempt17th of 32 · 1st = most4.31yds
Rico Dowdle
2025 regular season · 17 games
Rushing attempts per game13.9att
Rushing yards per game63.3yds
Yards per carry4.56yds
Share of his team's rushing attempts51%
Offensive snap share56%
Pass attempts plus sacks taken, over those plus rushing attempts. A sack is a called pass that never became an attempt, so it counts on the pass side. Kneel-downs sit inside the rushing attempts and cannot be separated out.His carries over his club's, counted across the games he played. Games he missed are in neither total.These are box score totals, not charted by alignment, so there is no split of what a defense gives up to slot receivers, to backs or to any other role. Nothing here claims one.

Receiving matchup

What the defense he meets has given up through the air, how much his offense throws, and how much of that goes to him
Cleveland Browns defense
2025 regular season · 17 games
Passing yards allowed per game3rd of 32 · 1st = fewest allowed189.4yds
Completions allowed per game4th of 32 · 1st = fewest allowed18.1
Yards allowed per completion9th of 32 · 1st = fewest allowed10.45yds
Passing touchdowns allowed per game14th of 32 · 1st = fewest allowed1.47TD
Pittsburgh Steelers offense
2025 regular season · 17 games
Pass attempts per game17th of 32 · 1st = most32.4att
Passing yards per game22nd of 32 · 1st = most213.6yds
Pass plays as a share of plays from scrimmage8th of 32 · 1st = most pass-heavy59%
Share of passing yards gained after the catch1st of 32 · 1st = highest share65%
Rico Dowdle
2025 regular season · 17 games
Targets per game2.9
Receptions per game2.3
Receiving yards per game17.5yds
Catch rate78%
Share of his team's targets10%
Offensive snap share56%
Pass attempts plus sacks taken, over those plus rushing attempts. A sack is a called pass that never became an attempt, so it counts on the pass side. Kneel-downs sit inside the rushing attempts and cannot be separated out.His targets over his club's, counted across the games he played. Games he missed are in neither total.These are box score totals, not charted by alignment, so there is no split of what a defense gives up to slot receivers, to backs or to any other role. Nothing here claims one.

Touchdown matchup

Touchdowns the defense he meets has allowed, beside his own offense
Cleveland Browns defense
2025 regular season · 17 games
Offensive touchdowns allowed per game12th of 32 · 1st = fewest allowed2.29TD
Points allowed per game14th of 32 · 1st = fewest allowed22.3
Pittsburgh Steelers offense
2025 regular season · 17 games
Offensive touchdowns per game17th of 32 · 1st = most2.47TD
Rushing plus receiving touchdowns. Return and defensive scores are not in this figure.

Method: per-game figures over the 2025 regular season, with the games behind each one shown on its panel and every 2026 opponent rated on that same season. Clubs and roles move between seasons. Conditions, not forecasts.

Record against the posted line, by market

Every market our archive priced him in at least eight times · the line is each book's opening number, median across the books quoting it · a market we priced fewer times is left off rather than shown with a sample too small to mean anything
MarketLined gamesOver-UnderOver rateAvg lineAvg resultLast line seenWindow
Rushing yards2110-1148% of 2153.557.737.5 (2026-09-20)2023-12-24 to 2026-09-20
Rush attempts115-645% of 1114.314.013.5 (2026-01-10)2024-09-26 to 2026-01-10
Anytime touchdown4813 of 4827%36% implied13 scored, 17 implied36% implied (2026-09-20)2023-09-10 to 2026-09-20
Receiving yards136-746% of 1314.615.812.5 (2026-09-20)2024-09-26 to 2026-09-20
Receptions84-450% of 82.252.502.5 (2026-09-20)2024-09-26 to 2026-09-20

Over rate excludes pushes and prints the decided count it is taken over. Whole-number markets (receptions, interceptions) push often, so overs divided by games would read several points off. The touchdown market posts no number at all, only a price, so it is graded as scored or not against the price implied by the books before their margin.

Where that record came from

Rushing yards · every split carries its own sample size, and a small one is left small rather than rounded into a headline
SplitOver-UnderRateAvg linen
All lined games10-1148%53.521
Home4-736%51.411
Away6-460%55.710
2026 season0-20%40.02
2025 season3-443%63.27
2024 season7-370%56.010
2023 season0-20%20.02

Game by game

Rushing yards · last 14 lined games · books = how many had a number up when we captured it
DateOppLineResultGradedBooks
2026-09-20at NE37.522under6
2026-09-13vs ATL42.515under6
2026-01-10vs LA52.59under1
2025-11-30vs LA58.558under4
2025-11-24at SF79.538under6
2025-11-16at ATL90.545under4
2025-11-02at GB50.5130over2
2025-10-26vs BUF49.554over4
2025-10-19at NYJ61.579over3
2024-12-29at PHI58.5104over6
2024-12-22vs TB73.523under4
2024-12-15at CAR83.5149over2
2024-12-09vs CIN67.5131over5
2024-11-28vs NYG65.5112over6

Season totals behind those lines

Our own game logs · totals with the per-game figure beside them · only the quantities the markets above are graded on
SeasonGamesRushing yardsRush attemptsReceiving yardsReceptionsGames with a TD
2026237 (18.5/gm)15 (7.5/gm)28 (14.0/gm)4 (2.00/gm)0 of 2
2025181,085 (60.3/gm)241 (13.4/gm)303 (16.8/gm)40 (2.22/gm)6 of 18
2024161,079 (67.4/gm)235 (14.7/gm)249 (15.6/gm)39 (2.44/gm)5 of 16
202317372 (21.9/gm)91 (5.4/gm)158 (9.3/gm)19 (1.12/gm)4 of 17

Tracking profile

2025 season · percentile = the share of the 37 qualified players (8+ tracked games) this player is above on the raw number · these are style and situation measures, so a high bar means more of the thing, not better
Rush yards over expected per attempt
0.49
54
Rush yards per attempt
4.44
51
Runs against 8+ in the box
21.4%
27
Time to the line of scrimmage
2.75s
24

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