Washington’s rushing yards with Elijah Brown and without Elijah Brown
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Against what the season’s ratings expected, Washington was 35.9 yards under with Elijah Brown and 18.0 yards under without Elijah Brown in 2026, 3 games against 4. The plain averages are 73.3 and 109.6, a difference of 36.3. Both games while ranked were without Elijah Brown. All 3 nonconference games were without Elijah Brown. All 4 first-half games were without Elijah Brown.
Elijah Brown, quarterback: 714 passing yards, 99 pass attempts and 70 completions in 4 games this season.
3 games with Elijah Brown is still too small a sample for the statistics to say much, but maybe you can find something if you squint.
rushing yards a game over expected
A −17.9 difference in rushing yards over expected with Elijah Brown vs without Elijah Brown is about what you’d expect.
A −36.3 difference in rushing yards with Elijah Brown vs without Elijah Brown is about what you’d expect.
The games
| Side | Date | Game | Result | rushing yards | Expected |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 2026 | vs Washington State | W | 137 | 148.8 | |
| Sep 12, 2026 | vs Utah State | W | 107 | 85.7 | |
| Sep 19, 2026 | vsEEastern Washington | W | 148 | — | |
| Sep 26, 2026 | vs Minnesota | L | 40 | 133.9 | |
| Oct 3, 2026 | @ USC | L | 116 | 103.6 | |
| Oct 9, 2026 | vs Iowa | L | -3 | 101.0 | |
| Oct 16, 2026 | @ Purdue | W | 188 | 126.2 | |
| Oct 31, 2026 | @ Nebraska | W | 35 | 100.6 |
Method
- Expected is an offense and a defense a team, fit over every 2026 game between two teams in the table with the game being read left out, plus 8.0 for the home team (the edge the fit finds once strength is in), nothing at a neutral site.
- Each expected number is then fit to the season’s games: a game bears out about 60% of the difference the model predicts.
- The two sides are the games before and after one date, so the shuffle moves any game between them.
- Eastern Washington has no other game in the table, so that game has no expected number and sits out the second figure.
- Who played is read from the schools’ box scores’ participation lists for 7 of these 8 games; in the other game a player is counted as in it when the box score has a stat for him.
- With him means he was the team’s quarterback that game, at least half of its pass attempts; a game he left early or came into late reads as without him.