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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]
Simpson won the rushing title again in 1975, rushing for 1,817 yards and 16 touchdowns. He also had a career-high 426 receiving yards and seven receiving touchdowns that season. [35] Simpson again led the league in rushing in 1976, rushing for 1,503 yards and eight touchdowns. [35]
O. J. Simpson led the team in rushing with 291 carries for 1,543 yards and 13 touchdowns. Earl McCullouch led the team in receiving with 30 catches for 540 yards and five touchdowns. [2] Simpson won the Walter Camp Award. Robert Kardashian is said to have met O. J. Simpson while serving as a water boy for the team. [3]
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Running back O. J. Simpson broke the 2,000-yard barrier for rushing yards in a season, and was voted NFL Most Valuable Player. Simpson began and ended the fourteen-game season with bookend five-game streaks where he ran for at least 100 yards. [13] 1973 was the fifth of nine consecutive seasons that Simpson led the team in rushing yards.
Renowned football star and infamous criminal defendant OJ Simpson died Wednesday at the age of 76, his family announced. Simpson “succumbed to his battle with cancer,” his family said in a ...
In the 25 years since “The Trial of the Century,” OJ Simpson has had a pretty wild life. ... leading the NFL in rushing four times and becoming the first player in NFL history to rush for over ...
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 ...