Thurman Thomas would like a word. Only player in nfl history to lead the league in yards from scrimmage for four straight years; 8 straight 1,000 yard seasons; was ‘91 league mvp; was a better a better receiver than both of them.
@@oldschooloakland never said he was better. But for the original comment to suggest like Barry and Emmitt were a mile ahead of everyone else in the 90’s just isn’t the case. Also, Thurman started over Barry at okla. st.
I mean to be fair wasn’t rushing much more common at the time? Like in comparison to now where it’s a passing dominant league, where’s back then its was more equal if not rushing dominant?
Keep in mind in 1973, the second leading rusher was John Brockington with 1144 yards. Simpson nearly doubled the output of his closest competitor.🤯 But also at the same time, the Bills made an extraordinary effort to keep Simpsons pace going, almost to the detriment to the rest of the team. He had about sixty carry attempts more than any other rusher in '73. They were a heavy rushing team, even when losing games. See the 1976 clips against Detroit where Simpson set the single game record. That came in a blowout loss to the Lions.
Don't get it twisted, had TD not gotten injured, he'd have eclipsed both of them because he had the speediness and shiftiness of Barry and the patience and nose for the end zone of Emmitt. Legitimately the closest to a perfect running back the NFL has ever had (Ladanian Tomlinson as well tbh)
Tremendously terrific Terrell Davis was such a phenomenal running back like no other he's everything to what the Denver Broncos was all about without question 12:04
Earl Campbell to me was the hardest hitting running back of all time. They Oilers had nothing but him and he got them to Pitsburgh, but dang one guy wasn't going to do it against the steel curtain. But he was a beast indeed.
No disrespect to Emmitt, but I don't understand how anyone can consider him the goat rb. It's clear as day he's not as explosive as 10 other backs on this list and the holes he had were massive. I think Cowboy fans are doing a disservice to Larry Allen and that oline by overly uplifting Emmitt and not promoting the fact that they had the greatest oline in history.
@RichardTaylor-pf2ve 1. Bruce Smith is the all-time sack leader( not the best pass rusher ever). Brett Farve won 3 MVPs, not the best qb ever. Smith wasn't essential in any of their SB wins. 2 blowouts, and O'Donnell threw the last one away. And again, Smith had the best oline in history and the most threatening passing game that defenses had to gameplan for. He's not the best rb ever, and Cowboys fans know it deep down no matter what they say.
Jamal Lewis with the most underrated 2000 yard season in NFL history. Also, OJ running for 2003 yards in 14 games on a bad Bills team...is just other worldly
The 90s to 2010 had some amazing RBs between Sanders, Smith, James, Holmes, Lewis, LT Alexander, Johnson, Barber, Faulk, Peterson, CJ2K, Green, Martin, Dillon, and many others I forgot
Looking at these legends....Does anyone admire Emmit Smith? He has yards. mostly due to Oline. Earle Campbell and Walther and Legend Jim Brown ? Those dudes inspired.
I consider myself lucky to have spent my teens and early 20's watching the greatest era of RB'S and the entire careers of Emmitt and Barry, perhaps the greatest sports debate in history.
Just watching Earl Campbell's runs are just insane when you know he had tree trunk legs and he can run faster than you think. There's a reason guys like him are difficult to find
It’s stunning to see that Walter Payton won just one rushing title but seeing that Earl Campbell and Eric Dickerson also played during his time it makes sense
@@Eli-ss9gj as a sports historian i punk clowns like u on a daily basis! please use ur real name when you comment to me kid! lol please explain to me how my comment about "oj" was incorrect? please reply ! im bored !
Gawd dammit I love me some Barry Sanders! RB is my fave position ever and all these great back are legends, but man, Barry brought for ten straight years without dipping.
@@youreokayboah2128 bro stop. Emmitt rushed for 7183 in his first 5 years, Barry rushed 6789in his. Barry would have likely out rushed Emmitt here if it wasn’t for his injury. In their 6-10 years of their careers Emmitt ran for 6,789, while Barry rushed for 8,480. A noticeably regression with Emmitt, while Barry retired as an elite running back. In Emmitt’s final 5 years he only rushed for 4,391, which just further demonstrated his regression. As for his years with the Cardinals: 3.25 Avg 48 Ypg 597 average yards a year Are NOT “good”
Part of why Washington didn’t see a 1,000 yard rusher until the 70’s is because they endured a nearly quarter century long playoff drought and thus weren’t good generally since the season went to 12 let alone 14 games. They also didn’t exactly have the best crop of running backs. There was a Hall of Fame back in Bobby Mitchell in the early 60’s, but he was used as both a runner and receiver before flex was a term.
Priest Holmes was not only a BadAss of a RB but after he won a Ring with the Ravens in the year 2000 he became a bonafide superstar RB with the Chiefs I just don't know how or why he's not in the Hall Of Fame it's Completely Criminality that he's not been mentioned as one of the greatest if not the absolute BEST players to ever grace the football field but no matter what he's a Hall Of Famer IMO he had 27 Touchdowns in one season before LT had 28 make no bones about it Priest Holmes deserves a Gold Jacket put some RESPECT on his name in NFL's History 13:20
He's not in the HOF because he was only good for like a 3 and a half season stretch. Maybe if he'd won a couple Super Bowls like Terrell Davis did during his run.
@@DanSalma-q5iIn the 2000’s teams could be built around a running back and not be pedestrian. But nowadays it’s more likely that your team is if it’s built around a single running back.
@@Bladin84 The word “best “in most cases is subjective. A lot of times people say that based on their preference or their bias. With that being said, I don’t believe there’s any all-time running back that ever lived, who was more determined, more driven or had more mental toughness than “sweetness”. He was also among the most versatile. He wasn’t the most talented or gifted, though he was talented and gifted enough to maximize those abilities to the point where he overachieved. He’s the equivalent of what Marvin Hagler was in boxing or what Jerry Rice was to the wide receiver position. There were more talented and gifted guys, but no one was able to maximize what they were given more so than he did.
@@Riles3152 Thats a fair assessment. I do think "best" is a term that gets tossed around all too easily. I typically prefer a gut instinct approach from watching the players in games and anticipating what will happen. By this I mean the old "which person would I trust with the game on the line or in a tight playoff position". While Payton was great in many areas, he is not the game changing or era altering RB I look to when thinking of the greatest of all time. He did win a Superbowl in his career but only led the league once in rushing yards and only once in rushing TDs his entire career. So other than that one season, there was a better running back in the league every single year of his career, not to mention all the years outside of his career. Personally I have a hard time naming someone the goat who spent almost their entire career in second or third place in their own position and typically had a losing record.
@@Bladin84 From 76-86, Walter was no less then a top 3 RB in the league. And arguably the best all things considered. That speaks to longevity and consistency which is RARE for a position so physically demanding as the RB position has ALWAYS been. Even more rare for a RB with as physical a playing style as Walter. Other RB's may have had higher peaks during Payton's career (Earl Campbell 78-80, Eric Dickerson 83-86) but Walter had a LONGER prime. So it really boils down to what you value more, higher peaks or longer primes. And him being on teams with losing records should be extremely contextualized. On pretty much every Bear team he was on until 84, he was essentially ALL they had offensively. For him to have carried those 77 and 79 Bears teams to the playoffs, is nothing short of a testament to Walter's impact. They never had close to a legit franchise QB until Jim McMahon, and even HE was pretty good at best, certainly never great. To hold some of the bad teams he was on against Walter, is an unfair argument TBH.
Certainly! Let’s take a look at some of the NFL rushing leaders from 1970 to 2023. Here are some notable players who topped the rushing yards charts in recent years: Christian McCaffrey, Josh Jacobs, Adrian Peterson, Eric Dickerson, George Rogers, Earl Campbell, Barry Sanders, LT, Christian Okoye, Shaun Alexander, Chris Johnson, OJ Simpson, Derrick Henry, Emmitt Smith, Walter Payton, George Rogers, Curtis Martin, Jonathan Taylor, Ezekiel Elliott, Terrell Davis and many others who were leading the league in rushing yards in their prime. These players have consistently delivered impressive performances on the field.🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈
There are different styles of running (George Rogers looks like O-lineman chugging along) but the most beautiful is Barry Sanders and Adrian Peterson. (like Gayle Sayres, but better/stronger) So hard to hit square, and had so many moves that they seemed to make up on the fly. Barry and AP are in a separate class. Even if they had only appeared in the league for one season, they would be legends.
Only 1 highlight from Marcus Allen's 1985 MVP campaign- do better @NFL Throwback. And as a young kid, I remember thinking OJ's 2,003 would never be broken in my lifetime. Then the NFL started adding regular season games to the schedule and I knew we'd see more and more 2,000 yard seasons.
@@JamesWoodring-mu2iz Well, yeah we did. Marv Levy is one of the few coaches with a winning record against Don Shula, which means that Jim Kelly outdueled Dan Marino more often than not; and so far, Josh Allen has outplayed Tua.
@@tygrkhat4087 last time i checked we are talkin the 70s! as far as the rest of ur comment goes the bills were great! but levy is no shula and kelly is no marino!
Larry Brown was a bright spot on an otherwise tragic and disappointing season in 1970. Had Lombardi lived, there's no telling how many championship parades we would have had down Pennsylvania Avenue. But it wasn't meant to be and Brown burnt out due to the tremendous abuse he took as the bellcow in George Allen's arch-conservative offensive game plan.
Texas (Campbell, Dickerson, LT, Peterson) VS. Florida (Smith, James, CJ, Henry) vs. San Diego (Allen, TD, Ricky and Arian). It's crazy how many stud RBs came from SD. Reggie Bush and Rashaan Salaam as well.
There was really a time where Peyton Manning was on the Colts and his running back was a greater offensive threat than him "Edge" is probably the definition of forgotten outside of Indy Dude replaced and in a couple of ways surpassed Marshall Faulk
Man lol what happened in 82??? In 1981 the rushing title was won with *1,674Yds* & in 1983 it was *1,808Yds* …then there’s 1982, where it only took *786Yds* to win the rushing title.
Emmitt Smith's 1993 season may be the greatest by a running back... EVER: he only started 13 games, led the league in rushing, won NFL MVP, Super Bowl MVP, and led the Cowboys over the Giants in the season finale to secure home-field advantage AFTER dislocating his shoulder in the first half.
I agree with Emmitt in 1993 being the best season by a running back. Capping it off with a second straight Super Bowl clinched it for me. If QB's are judged by championships, this is how I'd make my pick for RB's. Also, Dallas went 12-4 that year. All four losses were either when Emmitt missed (contract holdout the first two weeks) or failed to finish the game (injury in back to back midseason games).
Absolutely. They had at least four pro bowlers along the line thanks to Kent Hill (5x pro bowls), Dennis Harrah (6x) Doug Smith (6x), and Jackie Slater (7x). No wonder when another Ram, Charles White, led the league in rushing after trading away Dickerson in 1987.
They had Henry Ellard at WR and Jack Youngblood on the d-line and Cromwell was a DPOY I know they were in the same division as the 49ers, but it's a wonder that team didn't have more success with such an overpowering offensive line and skill position weapons on both sides
@@Riles3152 as a dolphin fan i agree! we never lost a game to oj ! no wonder the best team of all time could beat one of the best players of all time! 14 games is insane for 2000 yards! but it fails in comparison to the fins record of 32 -2 for a 2 year record! a record of dominance that will never be broken!
Earl Campbell didn't disappoint The Tyler Rose legendary icon University of Texas a 1st Round 1st overall pick in 1978 NFL Draft won the Heisman Trophy in 1977 3:50
Sanders and Emmett Smith in the 90s were the RB equivalent of manning and Brady in the 2000s. 2 guys in a league of their own their entire careers
Thurman Thomas would like a word. Only player in nfl history to lead the league in yards from scrimmage for four straight years; 8 straight 1,000 yard seasons; was ‘91 league mvp; was a better a better receiver than both of them.
@@strangebotwin-bruh, he couldn’t carry Barry’s Jock Strap tf
@@oldschooloakland never said he was better. But for the original comment to suggest like Barry and Emmitt were a mile ahead of everyone else in the 90’s just isn’t the case.
Also, Thurman started over Barry at okla. st.
@@strangebotwin- Barry was considered better, and had a way better season when he started.
@@RishiLankala first sentence in my comment there was, “never said he was better.” Reading truly is fundamental.
CJ2K, Foster, and Jones-Drew in the same division was a joy to watch
Foster is still my favorite offense player, ever.
I always knew OJ’s 2k yard season was insane… but you mean to tell me then 3 years before nobody had more than 1300? That’s insane
If the Bills had even a mildly good passing game OJ would have taken them to several Super Bowls
@@LemopalmHow was their defense in the 70’s?
I mean to be fair wasn’t rushing much more common at the time? Like in comparison to now where it’s a passing dominant league, where’s back then its was more equal if not rushing dominant?
Post merger yes the record OJ broke was Jim Brown's at 1863 yards in 1963
Keep in mind in 1973, the second leading rusher was John Brockington with 1144 yards. Simpson nearly doubled the output of his closest competitor.🤯
But also at the same time, the Bills made an extraordinary effort to keep Simpsons pace going, almost to the detriment to the rest of the team. He had about sixty carry attempts more than any other rusher in '73. They were a heavy rushing team, even when losing games. See the 1976 clips against Detroit where Simpson set the single game record. That came in a blowout loss to the Lions.
Insane from 1990-97 it was either Emmett Smith or Barry Sanders as the rushing champs, goat shit.
And it took a herculean 2000 yard season from TD to break that streak
IKR? best times ever.
Don't get it twisted, had TD not gotten injured, he'd have eclipsed both of them because he had the speediness and shiftiness of Barry and the patience and nose for the end zone of Emmitt. Legitimately the closest to a perfect running back the NFL has ever had (Ladanian Tomlinson as well tbh)
@@DanSalma-q5ishould've, would've, could've, but didn't.
I was about to type the same thing it was insane to see
About time we get this video! Now do the receiving leaders if you haven't already!
These lists are rigged by the lame stream media brugh!! This channel is all propagandized son!!
@@jennyanydots2389 How are these list “rigged”???? You either had the most rushing yards or you didn’t…
@@Austin.Kilgore Exactly, just people being salty like always.
@LiamDeege, He must be troll, he made another comment "I didn't see Trent Richardson's name on this list"
@@jennyanydots2389 OK Buzz Killington
RIP Walter Payton
RIP that guy hard!!
What do you mean "RIP"?
Between Emmitt and Barry, Thanksgiving in the 90s was always a great day for rushing.
Eric Dickerson was something else 1800 yards in his first season is insane it’s a shame he didn’t win a ring
Those Rams teams he was on his first few years were solid playoff caliber teams. They just had no QB.
Tremendously terrific Terrell Davis was such a phenomenal running back like no other he's everything to what the Denver Broncos was all about without question 12:04
Earl Campbell to me was the hardest hitting running back of all time. They Oilers had nothing but him and he got them to Pitsburgh, but dang one guy wasn't going to do it against the steel curtain. But he was a beast indeed.
No disrespect to Emmitt, but I don't understand how anyone can consider him the goat rb. It's clear as day he's not as explosive as 10 other backs on this list and the holes he had were massive. I think Cowboy fans are doing a disservice to Larry Allen and that oline by overly uplifting Emmitt and not promoting the fact that they had the greatest oline in history.
3x Super Bowl champ
League mvp
All time leading rusher
Super Bowl mvp
@RichardTaylor-pf2ve 1. Bruce Smith is the all-time sack leader( not the best pass rusher ever). Brett Farve won 3 MVPs, not the best qb ever. Smith wasn't essential in any of their SB wins. 2 blowouts, and O'Donnell threw the last one away. And again, Smith had the best oline in history and the most threatening passing game that defenses had to gameplan for. He's not the best rb ever, and Cowboys fans know it deep down no matter what they say.
Jamal Lewis with the most underrated 2000 yard season in NFL history. Also, OJ running for 2003 yards in 14 games on a bad Bills team...is just other worldly
The 90s to 2010 had some amazing RBs between Sanders, Smith, James, Holmes, Lewis, LT Alexander, Johnson, Barber, Faulk, Peterson, CJ2K, Green, Martin, Dillon, and many others I forgot
Looking at these legends....Does anyone admire Emmit Smith? He has yards. mostly due to Oline.
Earle Campbell and Walther and Legend Jim Brown ? Those dudes inspired.
His line was great but it doesn’t mean he didn’t play great too
Campbell must have had hands of steel, holding the ball like that, getting hit like a car crash, and not fumbling.
I consider myself lucky to have spent my teens and early 20's watching the greatest era of RB'S and the entire careers of Emmitt and Barry, perhaps the greatest sports debate in history.
Emmitt benefited from great O line. Barry way better
Just watching Earl Campbell's runs are just insane when you know he had tree trunk legs and he can run faster than you think. There's a reason guys like him are difficult to find
NFL Throwback W, LT forever, chargers legend
Lawrence Taylor played for the Seahawks brugh.
@@jennyanydots2389 Lawrence Taylor was a Giant throughout his career.
@@tygrkhat4087 Ur thinking of Ludwig Tate brugh.
@@jennyanydots2389 You know he's referring to LaDanian Tomlinson right?
@@LiamDeege Nay bray, he's talmbout LT the defensive back from the Detroit Lions first super bowl team.
It’s stunning to see that Walter Payton won just one rushing title but seeing that Earl Campbell and Eric Dickerson also played during his time it makes sense
OJ was a fuckin menace on the field too😂😂😂
He was a killer on the field 😂
except to the fins! how does 0-20 sound clown!
@@JamesWoodring-mu2izbruh spamming this in all the comments lmao the Dolphins suck (56-19)
@@Eli-ss9gj as a sports historian i punk clowns like u on a daily basis! please use ur real name when you comment to me kid! lol please explain to me how my comment about "oj" was incorrect? please reply ! im bored !
Terrell Davis one of the most underrated great players to ever grace the football field 12:24
Colts fan here. I love that all the highlights for Arian Foster were against the colts😅. He was an absolute nightmare for us
Colts fan here too we sucked as run stopping for so long foster jones drew sproils they all got us good 😆
I didn't see Trent Richardson's name on this list...
Because he never led the league??
i refer u to the cleveland browns' draft busts list
@@thescotslair He always led my heart in rushing yards though.
Sander's 1997 season is my favorite. 🐐
The league has had some great runners..my era was the 90s…Barry and Emmitt were the cream of the crop…
Gawd dammit I love me some Barry Sanders! RB is my fave position ever and all these great back are legends, but man, Barry brought for ten straight years without dipping.
Another fire video! Love you guys
emmitt smith 1993 94 and 95 was dominant
Still wasn’t Barry. Barry got better with age getting it in 90, 94, 96, and 97. Emmitt peaked early getting it in 91, 92, 93, and 95.
@@JamesWilliams-tk3nq
Out of the 3 triples, Emmitt Smith was the slowest to regress, he was even good during his cardinals run.
@@youreokayboah2128 bro stop. Emmitt rushed for 7183 in his first 5 years, Barry rushed 6789in his. Barry would have likely out rushed Emmitt here if it wasn’t for his injury. In their 6-10 years of their careers Emmitt ran for 6,789, while Barry rushed for 8,480. A noticeably regression with Emmitt, while Barry retired as an elite running back. In Emmitt’s final 5 years he only rushed for 4,391, which just further demonstrated his regression.
As for his years with the Cardinals:
3.25 Avg
48 Ypg
597 average yards a year
Are NOT “good”
Anytime NFL throwback post a video I’m watching 🔥
I just shit my pants over this video
The 90s was just a competition between Emmitt Smith and Barry Sanders, let’s be honest here.
This is true. But Thurman Thomas and Terrell Davis deserve their flowers too.
Awesome video! Thanks for sharing. Would love to see one for receiving yards, passing yards, sacks and interceptions
Anyone else licking their chops and scratching their heads about the lack of peanut punches? Insane no one intuited that move until way later.
Wow...talk about memory lane. Dickerson was astonishing.
Derrick Henry 2000 yards season in 2020 was crazy he has speed tht looks slow bc the man is built different bt he’s faster then what we think
This video is Just what I needed to get through my day 🔥
Part of why Washington didn’t see a 1,000 yard rusher until the 70’s is because they endured a nearly quarter century long playoff drought and thus weren’t good generally since the season went to 12 let alone 14 games.
They also didn’t exactly have the best crop of running backs.
There was a Hall of Fame back in Bobby Mitchell in the early 60’s, but he was used as both a runner and receiver before flex was a term.
Priest Holmes was not only a BadAss of a RB but after he won a Ring with the Ravens in the year 2000 he became a bonafide superstar RB with the Chiefs I just don't know how or why he's not in the Hall Of Fame it's Completely Criminality that he's not been mentioned as one of the greatest if not the absolute BEST players to ever grace the football field but no matter what he's a Hall Of Famer IMO he had 27 Touchdowns in one season before LT had 28 make no bones about it Priest Holmes deserves a Gold Jacket put some RESPECT on his name in NFL's History 13:20
He's not in the HOF because he was only good for like a 3 and a half season stretch. Maybe if he'd won a couple Super Bowls like Terrell Davis did during his run.
Thank you! Receivers next? And maybe sack leaders at some point?
My favorite offensive position. I gotta say even 10 years ago it felt like Running Backs mattered so much more than now. I miss balanced ball
They mattered on pedestrian teams
@@DanSalma-q5i what
@@DanSalma-q5iIn the 2000’s teams could be built around a running back and not be pedestrian.
But nowadays it’s more likely that your team is if it’s built around a single running back.
2:52 The Juice was dominant RIP
He rushed for 5,000 yds in 3 years on a 14-game schedule. Thats unreal.
You’re really saying rip for a guy who killed two people?
@@bjchitHe was found Not Guilty. Knock it off dude.
@@Number8Eigh8 With every literal shred of evidence saying that he did it. Don’t be naive.
@@Manny-nm8dh lol 0 -20 vs miami ! gtf outta here
Nigerian Nightnare was a MONSTER.
get these bots out of here
Yes, fellow human. Let us remove the bots!!
No, we need them.
The 2ᴺᴰ most annoying thing after the bots themselves, are the people who comment about them…
OJ was the best RB of the 70s! Rushing leader 4 times! Wow!
Those 3 seasons where Earl Campbell shows up on this list are incredible
Nobody is talking about the run that Eric Dickerson had throughout the 80s?
He's top 5, arguably top 3 in my mind
Curtis Martin won the Rushing Title by 1yrd over Shawn Alexander in 2004 wow insane
AFC South got some elite RBs!
id KILL to watch OJs 2k yard season
i mean you can its on the internet
bro 😂
I'm surprised Walter Payton wasn't the league leader more, considering he's the best running back to ever play the game.
Why do you consider Payton to be the best of all time?
Walter was a great all around player. He was a great receiver and could even play QB when needed.
@@Bladin84 The word “best “in most cases is subjective. A lot of times people say that based on their preference or their bias. With that being said, I don’t believe there’s any all-time running back that ever lived, who was more determined, more driven or had more mental toughness than “sweetness”. He was also among the most versatile. He wasn’t the most talented or gifted, though he was talented and gifted enough to maximize those abilities to the point where he overachieved. He’s the equivalent of what Marvin Hagler was in boxing or what Jerry Rice was to the wide receiver position. There were more talented and gifted guys, but no one was able to maximize what they were given more so than he did.
@@Riles3152 Thats a fair assessment. I do think "best" is a term that gets tossed around all too easily. I typically prefer a gut instinct approach from watching the players in games and anticipating what will happen. By this I mean the old "which person would I trust with the game on the line or in a tight playoff position". While Payton was great in many areas, he is not the game changing or era altering RB I look to when thinking of the greatest of all time. He did win a Superbowl in his career but only led the league once in rushing yards and only once in rushing TDs his entire career. So other than that one season, there was a better running back in the league every single year of his career, not to mention all the years outside of his career. Personally I have a hard time naming someone the goat who spent almost their entire career in second or third place in their own position and typically had a losing record.
@@Bladin84 From 76-86, Walter was no less then a top 3 RB in the league. And arguably the best all things considered. That speaks to longevity and consistency which is RARE for a position so physically demanding as the RB position has ALWAYS been. Even more rare for a RB with as physical a playing style as Walter. Other RB's may have had higher peaks during Payton's career (Earl Campbell 78-80, Eric Dickerson 83-86) but Walter had a LONGER prime. So it really boils down to what you value more, higher peaks or longer primes. And him being on teams with losing records should be extremely contextualized. On pretty much every Bear team he was on until 84, he was essentially ALL they had offensively. For him to have carried those 77 and 79 Bears teams to the playoffs, is nothing short of a testament to Walter's impact. They never had close to a legit franchise QB until Jim McMahon, and even HE was pretty good at best, certainly never great. To hold some of the bad teams he was on against Walter, is an unfair argument TBH.
Otis Armstrong was given them that crazy work back in the day
Need the receiving yards leaders next, maybe sack leaders too
Certainly! Let’s take a look at some of the NFL rushing leaders from 1970 to 2023. Here are some notable players who topped the rushing yards charts in recent years: Christian McCaffrey, Josh Jacobs, Adrian Peterson, Eric Dickerson, George Rogers, Earl Campbell, Barry Sanders, LT, Christian Okoye, Shaun Alexander, Chris Johnson, OJ Simpson, Derrick Henry, Emmitt Smith, Walter Payton, George Rogers, Curtis Martin, Jonathan Taylor, Ezekiel Elliott, Terrell Davis and many others who were leading the league in rushing yards in their prime. These players have consistently delivered impressive performances on the field.🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈
There are different styles of running (George Rogers looks like O-lineman chugging along) but the most beautiful is Barry Sanders and Adrian Peterson. (like Gayle Sayres, but better/stronger) So hard to hit square, and had so many moves that they seemed to make up on the fly. Barry and AP are in a separate class. Even if they had only appeared in the league for one season, they would be legends.
Only 1 highlight from Marcus Allen's 1985 MVP campaign- do better @NFL Throwback. And as a young kid, I remember thinking OJ's 2,003 would never be broken in my lifetime. Then the NFL started adding regular season games to the schedule and I knew we'd see more and more 2,000 yard seasons.
Juice is loose!
If the glove don't fit!!
OJ Simpson. Great football player, rotten human being.
lol 0-20 vs the fins! better luck next time!
@@JamesWoodring-mu2iz Well, yeah we did. Marv Levy is one of the few coaches with a winning record against Don Shula, which means that Jim Kelly outdueled Dan Marino more often than not; and so far, Josh Allen has outplayed Tua.
@@tygrkhat4087 last time i checked we are talkin the 70s! as far as the rest of ur comment goes the bills were great! but levy is no shula and kelly is no marino!
Love ❤️ The Videos 📹 Of These Legends At RB.
Jamal Lewis should be a Hall Of Famer for the love of God put him in there 14:14
Zuch a great video
O.J. keep Dorsett and Harris from winning rushing titles even though they were on better teams; O.J. did his thing on the football field.....
Larry Brown was a bright spot on an otherwise tragic and disappointing season in 1970. Had Lombardi lived, there's no telling how many championship parades we would have had down Pennsylvania Avenue. But it wasn't meant to be and Brown burnt out due to the tremendous abuse he took as the bellcow in George Allen's arch-conservative offensive game plan.
Was the best player on a Super Bowl offense in 1972.
But it would be interesting to see what Lombardi would’ve done had he lived
Great video as always
You should make the same list for RBs but with all purpose yards
The 1st Baltimore Ravens in franchise history to run for 2066 yards in a season in 2003 14:22
Whenever I had Holmes on my fantasy team, he never did much for me. It always disappointed me that I couldn't rely on a Priest on Sunday.
There will never ever be another one like LaDainian Tomlinson ever 15:22
💥💥 NFL receiving leaders 1970 to present day
RIP 1982 💀
Needs an asterisk since it was only 9 games
Texas (Campbell, Dickerson, LT, Peterson) VS. Florida (Smith, James, CJ, Henry) vs. San Diego (Allen, TD, Ricky and Arian). It's crazy how many stud RBs came from SD. Reggie Bush and Rashaan Salaam as well.
Safe to say Texas takes it
2105 yards will never be broken
Earl Campbell, Bo Jackson’s dad?😂😂😂💪🏼💪🏼
OJ sure cut and slashed his way through those defenses🔥🔥🔥🔥
If Barry sanders had the cowboys o line....3 or 4 times 2000 yard seasons
Dallas Cowboys as a team led the league in rushing in the most years during this time period.
EARL CAMPBELL 😮😮😮❤ Was a Beast.
Would love a receiving, passing, interceptions, sacks, and tackling leader by year!!
They already did a passing yards leader video from 1970 to 2003
There was really a time where Peyton Manning was on the Colts and his running back was a greater offensive threat than him
"Edge" is probably the definition of forgotten outside of Indy
Dude replaced and in a couple of ways surpassed Marshall Faulk
Barry Sanders, Emmitt Smith, Shaun Alexander, Derrick Henry 😤
Jamal Lewis should’ve won MVP in 2003 no doubt. I love Manning and McNair but Lewis had the stats to back it up too
This channel should fo a video covering every non QB to win the mvp award
Sack leaders each year...
Receiving yards each year...
Td passes....
OJ always knew you to slice & dice
Arian Foster was so damn good
Man lol what happened in 82??? In 1981 the rushing title was won with *1,674Yds* & in 1983 it was *1,808Yds* …then there’s 1982, where it only took *786Yds* to win the rushing title.
9 game strike shortened season
Strike shortened season in 82 and 87.
@@yezzir8929 Ahh. Well that’d certainly explain it then.
💥💥Why not have the leading rushers from the NFL and AFL from the '60s
28 Touchdowns in 2006 speaks more volumes 15:33
Crazy to think these guys would get 370-400 carries a year lol they barely get 250 carries nowadays 😮💨
People forget how deadly the bills running game was in the early 70s
lol clowns forget the bills werte 0- 20 against miami in the 70s!
They gave Zeke less carries every year smh could of had the rushing title in 19'
RIP O.J. You can finally return to LA without fearing your ex wife's killer
Emmitt Smith's 1993 season may be the greatest by a running back... EVER: he only started 13 games, led the league in rushing, won NFL MVP, Super Bowl MVP, and led the Cowboys over the Giants in the season finale to secure home-field advantage AFTER dislocating his shoulder in the first half.
Nah TD 98 season. 2k yards, 20 tds, MVP, and could've broken ED record had he not sat out all those 4th quarters
@@elbowgang9715 ... Other than stats, what was remarkable about Terrell Davis' 1998 season?
Oh great somebody had to go and trigger the cowboys fan🙄😂
I agree with Emmitt in 1993 being the best season by a running back. Capping it off with a second straight Super Bowl clinched it for me. If QB's are judged by championships, this is how I'd make my pick for RB's.
Also, Dallas went 12-4 that year. All four losses were either when Emmitt missed (contract holdout the first two weeks) or failed to finish the game (injury in back to back midseason games).
@@emantabrizi8218 You're kidding right? He lead them to a second straight Superbowl bro!
y’all should do a todd gurley vid
That Rams o-line must've been sneaky good in the 80s
Absolutely. They had at least four pro bowlers along the line thanks to Kent Hill (5x pro bowls), Dennis Harrah (6x) Doug Smith (6x), and Jackie Slater (7x).
No wonder when another Ram, Charles White, led the league in rushing after trading away Dickerson in 1987.
The Rams ultimately sent at least one offensive lineman to the pro bowl every year from 1966-1990
They had Henry Ellard at WR and Jack Youngblood on the d-line and Cromwell was a DPOY
I know they were in the same division as the 49ers, but it's a wonder that team didn't have more success with such an overpowering offensive line and skill position weapons on both sides
@@DanSalma-q5iA better quarterback would have helped the Rams in both the 70’s and 80’s.
17:43 🐐 2012
Trent Richardson?
AD is the 2nd best back in history behind Barry.
hopefully we get some packers legends in here
Adrian Peterson was literally one Brett Farve interception from the super bowl he would have won
Who’s here after the regular season expanded to 150 games?
RIP Juice;
Simply the Best, still.
lol 0 -20 vs miami ! gtf outta here!
Actually, all off the field stuff aside, he wasn't. He was among the greatest RB's of all-time, but "the best" is extremely subjective.
@@Riles3152 as a dolphin fan i agree! we never lost a game to oj ! no wonder the best team of all time could beat one of the best players of all time! 14 games is insane for 2000 yards! but it fails in comparison to the fins record of 32 -2 for a 2 year record! a record of dominance that will never be broken!
14:05 look a the bills in your rear... mirror!
Earl Campbell didn't disappoint The Tyler Rose legendary icon University of Texas a 1st Round 1st overall pick in 1978 NFL Draft won the Heisman Trophy in 1977 3:50