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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.
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 ...
List of NFL career rushing touchdowns leaders. 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.
Adrian Lewis Peterson (né Brown; [ 1 ] born March 21, 1985) is an American professional football running back who played fifteen seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He is widely considered to be one of the greatest running backs in football history.
Barry Sanders[ 1 ][ 2 ] (born July 16, 1968) is an American former professional football running back who played for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL) for 10 seasons. Sanders led the league in rushing yards four times and in rushing touchdowns once, establishing himself as one of the most elusive runners in the history of ...
LaDainian Tomlinson holds the single-season rushing touchdowns record, running for 28 touchdowns in 2006. In American football, rushing and passing are the two main methods of advancing the ball down the field. A rush, also known as a running play, generally occurs when the quarterback hands or tosses the ball backwards to the running back, but other players, such as the quarterback, can run ...
Eleven players are recognized as having held outright or tied the record as the NFL's career receiving touchdowns leader. [2] The longest record holder was Don Hutson who held the record for 49 years. Don Hutson held the TD receiving record for 49 years. George Halas was the first receiving TD leader and held the record two years. Reign. Player.
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 ...