What It Means:

Call it head coach Gary Kubiak's preference, or call it his lack of confidence in last year's workhorse Anderson, but it appears that Denver's running game has become a fantasy morass like so many other situations in the NFL. This isn't even a gameflow-centric committee, so it's hard to tell who will be the "lead back" in any given week.

Since the beginning of the year, Anderson has out-snapped Hillman 99-48, but that number becomes a much closer 42-31 when we factor out Week 1. What is clear is that Hillman is getting far more work done on the ground, with a -0.07 per-play Rushing Net Expected Points to Anderson's almost league-worst -0.30.