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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 ...
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 Emmitt Smith was the league's rushing champion four times, including three consecutive ...
All-purpose yardage (or combined net yards gained) encompasses rushing, receiving, interception returns, punt returns, kickoff returns and fumble returns. [ 1 ] : s-14 Most seasons leading league, combined net yards : 5, Jim Brown , 1958–61, 1964 [ 1 ] : s-24
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]
In 1984, Dickerson topped 100 yards rushing 12 times to break Buffalo's O.J. Simpson's 1973 record of 2,003 yards rushing in a single season. Simpson set his record in 12 games before the NFL ...
The evolution of the NFL has made Emmitt Smith's all-time rushing record an untouchable mark for the foreseeable future. ... 31, is the NFL’s active leader in career rushing yards with 7,471 ...
Dual-threat quarterbacks have historically been more prolific at the college level. In the National Football League (NFL), Cam Newton is the NFL's all-time leader in rushing attempts (1,118) and rushing touchdowns (75) for a quarterback, while Michael Vick holds the record for most rushing yards (6,109).
Here's a look at the all-time rushing yards leaders by rookie quarterbacks in NFL history. ... RGIII had 120 rush attempts, leading the NFL with 6.8 yards per rush. Daniels is on pace for over 220 ...