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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
If Barkley doesn't overtake Dickerson for the single-season rushing mark, he can still join an exclusive club of NFL running backs who gained 2,000 yards. Eight others have rushed for 2,000 yards ...
At 2,005 rushing yards on the year, he is just 101 away from surpassing Pro Football Hall of Fame running back Eric Dickerson’s single-season record. Dickerson set the record in 1984 with the ...
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
Barkley has 2,005 rushing yards on 345 carries this season, which are both personal and NFL bests, along with 13 rushing touchdowns. The seventh-year veteran also has 33 catches for 278 receiving ...