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The 2,000-yard club is a group of nine National Football League (NFL) running backs as of 2024 who have rushed for 2,000 yards or more in a regular season since the league's 1920 founding. [1] These nine rushing seasons rank as the highest single-season rushing totals in NFL history, [ 2 ] and reaching the 2,000-yard mark is considered a ...
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 ...
Put Saquon Barkley into the NFL history books. On Sunday, the Philadelphia Eagles star became the ninth running back in NFL history to reach 2,000 rushing yards in a single season.
Having spent six seasons with the Giants, Barkley became the ninth running back to hit the 2,000-yard single season rushing mark and was in the running for the NFL’s Most Valuable Player award ...
In 1984, Dickerson topped 100 yards rushing 12 times to break O.J. Simpson’s 1973 record of 2,003 yards rushing in a season. Simpson set his record in 14 games for the Buffalo Bills before the ...
He is the Denver Broncos' all-time leading rusher, with 7,607 rushing yards. Davis still holds the NFL record for most rushing touchdowns in a single postseason, scoring eight in the 1997 playoffs, culminating in him winning the Super Bowl MVP award. [2] In 1998, he became only the fourth NFL player to rush for over 2,000 yards in a season.
Barkley gets a shot at the record thanks to a 17th game of the season that Dickerson and the NFL did not have in 1984. Derrick Henry was the last running back to exceed 2,000 yards. He had 2,027 for the Tennessee Titans in 2020. Minnesota running back Adrian Peterson ran for 2,097 yards in 2012, the second most in an NFL season.
Barkley, who left the Giants to sign a three-year deal with the Eagles for $26 million guaranteed, also set the NFL mark Sunday for most yards rushing in a player's first season with a new team. Barkley left Sunday’s game after the run that got him past 2,000, finishing with 167 yards on 31 carries.