In the Wild Card Round, Travis Etienne had 109 rushing yards and 12 more yards receiving. Etienne has eclipsed the 100-yard mark on the ground in three of his past five games. He also regularly adds an extra few yards through the air. Recently he s finished with 12, 17, 32, 29 and 24 receiving yards.
Add that to his rushing totals and he s combined for 121, 34, 140, 112 and 127 combined yards in his past five games.
The Chiefs are decent against the run (8th), but still give up an average of 107.2 YPG. But defending running back catches have been a downside for them. Only Las Vegas and Jacksonville have allowed a higher average of running back receiving yards than Kansas City s 48.6.
Travis Etienne s first career playoff game Saturday:
* 64-of-74 snaps
* 58 backfield, 5 slot, 1 wide
* 40 routes on 52 Lawrence dropbacks
* 20-of-20 RB carries
* 1 target for a 2% share
* 20-109-0 rushing, 1-12-0 receiving result
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3) Jerrick McKinnon over 63.5 rushing and receiving yards (-115); risk 1 unit DraftKings Sportsbook
Jerrick McKinnon hasn t been involved too much in the Chiefs running game of late, finishing with just 6, 4, and 7 rushing yards in his last three games. His receiving yardage hasn t stood out much either with 0, 52, and 31 yards in those same three games. So he wouldn t have exceeded this rushing and receiving prop in any of his past three games.
However, in the three games before those games mentioned, he finished with 52, 22 and 51 yards rushing and 70, 112 and 9 yards receiving. Meaning he would ve cashed this prop in 2/3 games. It would ve been in all three if you d bet this prop earlier in the week at 59.5 yards before it moved up.
Which McKinnon will we see versus the Jaguars? Well if it s anything like the one that had 56 yards receiving (but only 2 yards rushing) against Jacksonville earlier this season, it could be enough to go over this prop total. As mentioned in our Travis Etienne prop above, both the Jags and Chiefs struggle to defend passes to running backs. The Jags are second-worst in that category in the NFL giving up 48.8 YPG. Throw in any sort of rushing yards and we could have a winner in our Divisional Round player props.
