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In the National Football League (NFL), the player who has recorded the most rushing yards for a season is considered the winner of the rushing title for that season. [3] In addition to the NFL rushing champion, league record books recognize the rushing champions of the American Football League (AFL), which operated from 1960 to 1969 before ...
Simpson finished the 1973 season with 2,003 rushing yards, averaging six yards per carry and an NFL-record 143.1 rushing yards per game. [4] In 1983, Los Angeles Rams running back Eric Dickerson broke the single-season rookie rushing record, [5] recording the second 2,000-yard season in 1984. Dickerson rushed for 2,105 yards, the current NFL ...
Emmitt Smith leads with 18,355 yards and is also the postseason leader with 1,586. He has held the all-time rushing yards record since 2002 and is the only player with over 17,000 regular season rushing yards.
The 2024 NFL season has been the year of the running game. 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 ...
He is averaging 124.8 yards per game. At that pace, and with one more game to play than Dickerson had, he would become the top single-season rusher in NFL history. He needs 483 yards over the final four games to top Dickerson’s 40-year-old record. Barkley is on pace for 2,122 yards, which would put him just 17 yards beyond Dickerson's 2,105 ...
In Wednesday's 31-2 win over the Houston Texans, the Baltimore Ravens quarterback broke Michael Vick's record for career rushing yards (6,109) by a quarterback. Jackson, who is in his seventh ...
Most rushing yards per attempt, season (qualifiers): 8.45 yards (1,039 yards/123 attempts), Michael Vick, 2006 [65] Highest average gain per attempt, rookie season (qualifiers) : 8.44 yards (1,004 yards/119 attempts), Beattie Feathers , 1934
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 14 games before the NFL ...