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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.
List of NFL rushing title winners. Byron "Whizzer" White, a future associate justice of the US Supreme Court, won the league rushing title in 1938 and 1940. Gale Sayers led the NFL in rushing in 1966 and 1969. Eric Dickerson led the league in rushing in 1983 and 1984, his first two seasons in the league, and won two more titles in 1986 and 1988.
The single-game rushing record belongs to Oklahoma 's Samaje Perine, whose 427 yards in a 2014 game against Kansas broke a record set just the week before by Wisconsin's Melvin Gordon. Prior to Perine and Gordon, the only player to rush for 400 yards in a game was LaDainian Tomlinson. All players on the career list are running backs.
This is a list of National Football League (NFL) running backs by total career rushing touchdowns. This list includes all running backs with at least 75. Emmitt Smith is the all-time leader with 164. He also leads in postseason touchdowns with 19. Cam Newton is the only quarterback in this list.
2,000-yard club. Los Angeles Rams running back Eric Dickerson recorded an NFL-record 2,105 rushing yards in 1984. The 2,000-yard club is a group of eight National Football League (NFL) running backs who have rushed for 2,000 yards or more in a regular season. [ 1 ] These eight rushing seasons rank as the highest single-season rushing totals in ...
He is also the all-time leader in career rushing touchdowns. [ 12 ] John Riggins led the league in 1983 with the first 20+ rushing touchdown season. [ 13 ] Derrick Henry led the league in back-to-back seasons in 2019 and 2020. [ 14 ] Raheem Mostert is the most recent rushing touchdowns leader. [ 7 ]
* Jaleel McLaughlin is the NCAA's all-time leading rusher. His 8,155 yards rushing were split between Div II Notre Dame College (4,737) [15] and FCS Youngstown State (3,418) and thus are not listed in the categories above. [16]
Despite playing his senior year as a wide receiver, Braxton Miller became the Buckeyes' career leader in total offense yards (surpassed since by J.T. Barrett) The Ohio State Buckeyes football statistical leaders are individual statistical leaders of the Ohio State Buckeyes football program in various categories, [1] including passing, rushing, receiving, total offense, defensive stats, and ...