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Highest average yards from scrimmage per game, career (100 games): 125.52, Jim Brown (14,811 yards/118 games), 1957–1965 Highest average yards from scrimmage per game, season : 163.36, Priest Holmes (2,237 yards/14 games), 2002
Jerry Rice played 303 games as a wide receiver, an NFL record. Bruce Matthews (left) played a record 296 games as an offensive lineman. His brother Clay (right) holds the record for games at linebacker. No one has played more games at the cornerback position than Darrell Green Jim Marshall holds the record for most games played at defensive end ...
Most games with at least 80% pass completion rate, career (minimum 20 attempts per game): 28, Drew Brees, 2004–2020 [41] Most games with at least 80% pass completion rate, season (minimum 20 attempts per game) : 4, Drew Brees , 2018; Kirk Cousins , 2019; Trevor Lawrence , 2022 [ 42 ]
Notes: Ryan also was the 2008 offensive rookie of the year and 2016 NFL MVP. During his career, the Falcons made six playoff appearances and reached Super Bowl LI (the Falcons had eight playoff ...
The NFL officially counts and includes the statistical records logged by teams that played in the American Football League (AFL) as part of NFL history. Therefore, these teams' pre-merger win–loss records are accounted for. However, the NFL does not officially count All-America Football Conference statistics, despite the 1950 NFL–AAFC ...
Through six weeks, NFL teams are averaging 4.5 yards per carry for just the second time in history, the first coming in 2022. Teams are averaging 121.7 rushing yards per game – the most since 1987.
The first 2,000-yard season was recorded in 1973 by Buffalo Bills running back O. J. Simpson, who is the only player ever to have surpassed 2,000 yards in a 14-game season; all others occurred in 16-game seasons. Simpson finished with 2,003 rushing yards, averaging six yards per carry and an NFL-record 143.1 rushing yards per game. [4]
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]