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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 ...
In 1920, the inaugural season of the NFL, [b] 11 veterans of major-league baseball (including George Halas and Jim Thorpe) became the first athletes to accomplish the feat. Since 1970, only seven athletes have done so, including Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders. Jackson was the first athlete to be selected as an All-Star in both MLB and the 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 ...
Who says running backs don't matter? Not Doug Farrar, who lists the 11 best backs in the NFL today, from Damien Harris to Jonathan Taylor. The NFL’s top 11 running backs
ESPN has ranked the top 10 running backs in the NFL ahead of the 2020 season. Panthers RB Christian McCaffrey is widely considered the most dynamic back in the league. The Stanford alum had over 1 ...
On the other end, the shortest average careers are the running backs, only 2.57 seasons. [1] According to data compiled by another study, [2] quarterbacks and offensive linemen are next on the list with average career spans of 4.44 and 3.63 seasons, respectively. Defensive linemen usually have longer careers than linebackers and cornerbacks.
The Miami Dolphins have a long tradition of talented, all-purpose running backs. If De'Von Achane continues excelling at running and receiving, he may join this list one day. Here are 10 of their ...
Buffalo Bills running back O. J. Simpson, who rushed for 2,003 yards in 1973, the first NFL player to exceed 2,000 yards in a season and the only player to do so in a 14-game season Eric Dickerson, a Los Angeles Rams running back and the all-time NFL season rushing leader with 2,105 yards in 1984 Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley, the newest member of the 2,000-yard club with ...