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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 ...
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
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 ...
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 ...
The value of running backs in the NFL has dropped precipitously in recent years as teams more and more rely on the passing game to succeed. McCaffrey got four first-place votes, two seconds, a ...
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.
A panel of nine AP Pro Football Writers ranked the top five players at running back, making their selections based on current status through Week 8. First-place votes were worth 10 points.