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This is a list of National Football League running backs by total career rushing yards, and includes the 31 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.
List of NFL rushing title winners. 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.
The 2,000-yard club is a group of eight National Football League (NFL) running backs who have rushed for 2,000 yards or more in a regular season. [1] These eight rushing seasons rank as the highest single-season rushing totals in NFL history, [2] and reaching the 2,000-yard mark is considered a significant achievement for running backs. [3]
Most rushing yards by a quarterback, game: 181, Colin Kaepernick, January 12, 2013 (playoffs); 178, Justin Fields, November 6, 2022 (regular season) Most rushing yards per attempt, career (minimum 750 attempts) : 7.0 yards (6,109 yards/873 attempts), Michael Vick , 2001–2015 [ 67 ]
In 2006, halfback Warrick Dunn and quarterback Michael Vick became the fourth duo with 1,000 rushing yards in the same season, and the first NFC team with such a duo. Vick also became the first quarterback to rush for over 1,000 yards in a single season, [6] while Dunn's 1,140 yards are the most by any player in a 1,000-yard duo. [7]
NFL rushing yards leaders. National Football League rushing yards leaders. NFL rushing yards leaders may refer to: List of NFL annual rushing yards leaders. List of NFL career rushing yards leaders. Category:
Fewest first downs, single team, game, 0 (zero) New York Giants (vs Green Bay Packers) Oct 1, 1933. Pittsburgh Pirates vs Boston Redskins) Oct 29, 1933. Philadelphia Eagles (vs Detroit Lions) Sep 20, 1935. New York Giants (vs Washington Redskins) Sep 27, 1942. Denver Broncos (vs Houston Oilers) Sep 3, 1966.
He was second nationally in rushing yards to O.J. Simpson in 1967 and set what at the time were national records the following season with 340 yards in a game against Montana State, 1,571 yards in ...