Articles of footwear with knitted components and methods of manufacturing the same

An article of footwear having an upper comprising:

• a knitted component having a plurality of courses knit with a first yarn and a tensile element having a greater tenacity than the first yarn,
• wherein, within the plurality of courses, the tensile element is knit with a sequence of one or more knitted loop stitches and a float stitch extending a quantity of wales that is greater than a quantity of knitted loop stitches within the sequence, the quantity of wales being at least 3 wales and no greater than 8 wales;
• and
• wherein the sequence is repeated multiple times along each course within the plurality of courses.

An article of footwear having an upper comprising:

• a knitted component comprising radially-extending courses extending from an outer perimeter towards a throat area;
• the radially-extending courses forming:
• one or more first zones with radially-extending courses knit with a first yarn and a tensile element having a greater tenacity compared to the first yarn, wherein within the one or more first zones, the tensile element is knit with a sequence of one or more knitted loop stitches and a float stitch extending a quantity of wales that is greater than a quantity of knitted loop stitches within the sequence, wherein the sequence is repeated multiple times along each course within the plurality of courses;
• and
• one or more second zones with radially-extending courses and lacking tensile elements knit with the sequence.