Jamal Lewis

Jamal Lafitte Lewis

Position: RB
Height: 5-11 Weight: 240 lbs.

Born: August 29, 1979 in Atlanta, GA
College: Tennessee (school history)
Drafted by the Baltimore Ravens in the 1st round (5th overall) of the 2000 NFL Draft.

Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 70 (637th overall since 1950)
1-time Pro Bowler & 1-time First-Team All-Pro (fine print)

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News -- February 2013

2/24 FootballPerspective.com: Projecting Trent Richardson and Alfred Morris, a year later: In the pre-season, I wrote three pieces on Cleveland Browns rookie Trent Richardson. As part of a thought experiment, I wondered...

1/24 FootballPerspective.com: Super Bowl XLVII Prop Bets: I don’t advocate betting on football games and neither does Football Perspective. However, as a person who spends lot of...
1/7 FootballPerspective.com: Jamaal Charles’ 2012 was one of the most inconsistent seasons in RB history: A couple of weeks ago, I heard my buddy and co-worker Sigmund Bloom say on the Footballguys Podcast that Jamaal Charles was having...
1/1 FootballPerspective.com: NYT Fifth Down: Post-week 17: At the New York Times Fifth Down Blog this week, I explain my choices for the major awards this season. Offensive Player of the...

12/29 FootballPerspective.com: Checkdowns: Career rushing stats in wins and losses: Yesterday, I noted that Adrian Peterson is averaging nearly two more yards per rush in losses than wins. He’s also averaging...
12/11 The High Phive: Forget The Draft: Let Nick Foles Develop: The date is January 2, 2000. On a chilly and blustery day at Veterans Stadium, then-rookie quarterback Donovan McNabb has his...

11/13 FootballPerspective.com: Creating a NFL draft value chart, Part I: Nearly five years ago, I came out with my own draft value chart to replace the “Jimmy Johnson” draft chart commonly...

10/10 FootballPerspective.com: Career Rushing Yards over 50 yards in each game: Career statistics can be very misleading, since a player can hang around for a bunch of meaningless years but really pad his totals....

9/25 FootballPerspective.com: Mike Tomlin makes aggressive, unconventional call, converts, no one cares: If you weren’t watching the Steelers-Raiders game, you probably didn’t hear about Mike Tomlin’s gutsy call late...

8/15 FootballPerspective.com: Random Perspective On: The 2012 Oakland Raiders: Darren McFadden has missed games due to injury in each of his four seasons in the NFL. But he earns the label “injury prone”...
8/7 FootballPerspective.com: How often does the best rookie running back end up having the best career?: Yesterday, I looked at how frequently the highest drafted rookie running back ended leading his draft class in rushing yards....

7/5 FootballPerspective.com: Franchise leaders — rushing stats: Yesterday, we took a look at the franchise leaders in various passing categories. Let’s do the same for running backs today....
7/3 FootballPerspective.com: Is Matt Forte an elite running back?: Let’s flash back to December 1, 2011. At the time, Chicago Bears star Matt Forte was having the best season of his career...

9/21 Sunday Morning Legend: Should I Pick-up Dexter McCluster or Thomas Jones to replace Jamaal Charles?: Lets face it, if you just lost Jamaal Charles for the season, your fantasy team is probably hurting and you are going to have...