Adrian Peterson Sets the Rushing Record! (Chargers vs. Vikings, 2007) 

People talk about how we don’t see many running backs get as many carries as AP did. Well we don’t see nearly as much returning now either. Devin Hester and Brian Mitchell’s career return records are likely unbreakable.

@@fortynights1513 Main reason is because the ruleset in place to prevent them from happening. Hester had several of those kick returns be short of the goal line in an era where kickoffs were at the 30. Nowadays you kick at the 35 and it's any fair catch inside the 25 is marked at the 25, so most people don't return it. Plus with how coverage has gotten better, it took forever for people to return punts in some years(took most of 2021 for it to happen, for example).

@@Theel25 Regarding the return records of Devin Hester and Brian Mitchell to put them into perspective in comparison to what players are doing nowadays. Devin Hester in 2006 had five combined kick and punt return touchdowns, and he had six return touchdowns in 2007. As well as three each in 2010 and 2011. In the last 10 or 11 years, nobody has had more than two kick return or punt return touchdowns in any season; and I’m sure Hester’s 2010 and 2011 performances when he was later on in his prime would have led the league in return touchdowns most of those years; let alone his incredible first two years. Brian Mitchell retired in 2003 with 19,013 combined kick and punt return yards in his career. Andre Roberts who is 35 and last played for Carolina has 8,631 such yards; the most of any active player. And he’s someone who is a free agent. Other than him, Cordarelle Patterson, Tyler Lockett and Alex Erickson are the only other three active players with 4,000 career return yards, and they are each at least 30, and at least Lockett doesn’t appear to be used on returns anymore. Roberts also is responsible for the largest individual return yardage season of the last nine seasons with 1,498 return yards in 2018. A total that Brian Mitchell topped six times in his career, including in 2002 for Philly at age 34. Do Mitchell’s sixth best season would have led the league in any of the last nine years, and Mitchell himself led the league in return yardage only once in his career.

@@psun316 he got his 100th td in 06

@@fortynights1513 lol and people today dont get carries like ap did cause they not ap. henry prob the best back since AD

and he's gonna Dancing with the stars by storm.

Greatest Rookie season I've witnessed imo

Less than 40 in the first half 😂

To say that is crazy. Derrick Henry has gotten very close. Someone like Henry, Jonathan Taylor, Nick chubb could feasibly break this

@@camc9093not so sure about Chubb anymore

@@marshonhattimore rip

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He said he didn't wanna get 300 out of respect

@@DarylHoward-qg3yhoutta respect of who

@@DarylHoward-qg3yh People think too much

Also Childress played Chester Taylor in the fourth quarter and he had a huge 34 yard run @12:30

Yup also keep in mind a rookie ap did this in front of the reigning mvp ladanian tomlinson

I was 8 or 9 and I still remember.

It was the first game I went to in person as a birthday gift because I loved LT even though I'm a Minnesota native I was crushed😂

Speculation. But anything is possible. Maybe he would have had a few minus yard's too. Who really knows‽

On and off the field

Now he's gonna be on Dancing with the stars.

​@@runrafarunthebestintheworldGood Luck To Him

What happened to tavaris

​@@jasonwiggins5906I Think He Died In A Car Accident

RIP to both Men 🙏

​@@jasonwiggins5906believe he died in a car accident

Running games today are arguably still valuable, but individual players are unlikely to get as many carries as AP was given in his prime.

​@@fortynights1513run game just as valuable even more for some teams with running qbs

@@fortynights1513 if ap came into the league today and was this effective idk why a modern couch wouldnt feed him the ball as well

The best times.

Lol no he didn’t…

Former? Did you bandwagon to someone else?

@Skazellino Nope. When they moved to LA, I became a football atheist. I just hope everyone has fun. Except for the Raiders. Fuck them.

And Turner and Jackson.

How good was their defense?

oh wow you're right! I cant believe ive never noticed that

Who else but the chargers to pull that