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This is a list of National Football League running backs by total career rushing yards, and includes the 32 running backs who have rushed for at least 10,000 yards, for which sixteen of them have been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Emmitt Smith leads with 18,355 yards and is also the postseason leader with 1,586. He has held the ...
Only players to throw and catch a pass for a touchdown in the same play: 3 yards, Brad Johnson on October 12, 1997; 37 yards, Frank Ryan on October 30, 1960; [296] 6 yards, Marcus Mariota on January 6, 2018 (playoff game) [297]
Note: Y. A. Tittle passed for 33,070 yards in his professional career, which would place him in 44th on this list, but 4,731 of those yards came in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC), which the NFL does not recognize statistics and records from to date. [54] [55] Thus, Tittle's career passing yards total in the NFL stands at 28,339. [56]
Entering the game, Mahomes was ranked 106th with 21,596 passing yards in the regular season. He needed 290 passing yards to break into the top 100 and he got it with a 10-yard pass to running back ...
The first 2,000-yard season was recorded in 1973 by Buffalo Bills running back O. J. Simpson. Simpson is the only player ever to have surpassed 2,000 yards in a 14-game season; all others occurred in 16-game seasons. He finished the season with 2,003 rushing yards, averaging six yards per carry and an NFL-record 143.1 rushing yards per game. [4]
The NFL did not begin keeping official records until the 1932 season. [5] Since the adoption of the 14-game season in 1961 , all but one rushing champion have recorded over 1,000 yards rushing. Eight rushing champions have recorded over 2,000 rushing yards , a feat first accomplished by O. J. Simpson in 1973 and most recently achieved by ...
Running back Detroit Lions (1989–1998) 18,308 15,269 2,921 0 0 118 0 2004: 12 Herschel Walker: Running back Kick returner Dallas Cowboys (1986–1989, 1996–1997) Minnesota Vikings (1989–1991) Philadelphia Eagles (1992–1994) New York Giants 18,168 8,225 4,859 0 0 5,084 0 None 13 Adrian Peterson: Running back Minnesota Vikings (2007–2016)
Tom Brady has 649 passing touchdowns, the most in NFL history. In American football, passing, along with running (also referred to as rushing), is one of two primary methods to advance the ball, typically executed by the quarterback from behind the line of scrimmage, but any offensive player can attempt a pass provided they are behind the line. A pass must move forward from the passer's hands ...