NFL Rushing Leaders 1970 to 2023! 

CJ2K, Foster, and Jones-Drew in the same division was a joy to watch

About time we get this video! Now do the receiving leaders if you haven't already!

Insane from 1990-97 it was either Emmett Smith or Barry Sanders as the rushing champs, goat shit.

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

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

Between Emmitt and Barry, Thanksgiving in the 90s was always a great day for rushing.

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.

RIP Walter Payton

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

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

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

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.

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😂😂😂

NFL Throwback W, LT forever, chargers legend

I didn't see Trent Richardson's name on this list...

Anytime NFL throwback post a video I’m watching 🔥

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.

2:52 The Juice was dominant RIP

Sander's 1997 season is my favorite. 🐐

Awesome video! Thanks for sharing. Would love to see one for receiving yards, passing yards, sacks and interceptions

Wow...talk about memory lane. Dickerson was astonishing.

Thank you! Receivers next? And maybe sack leaders at some point?

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

Anyone else licking their chops and scratching their heads about the lack of peanut punches? Insane no one intuited that move until way later.

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

OJ was the best RB of the 70s! Rushing leader 4 times! Wow!

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.🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈🏈

AFC South got some elite RBs!

Nigerian Nightnare was a MONSTER.

Curtis Martin won the Rushing Title by 1yrd over Shawn Alexander in 2004 wow insane

Those 3 seasons where Earl Campbell shows up on this list are incredible

Otis Armstrong was given them that crazy work back in the day

Nobody is talking about the run that Eric Dickerson had throughout the 80s?

Need the receiving yards leaders next, maybe sack leaders too

id KILL to watch OJs 2k yard season

The 90s was just a competition between Emmitt Smith and Barry Sanders, let’s be honest here.

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.....

Zuch a great video

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

OJ sure cut and slashed his way through those defenses🔥🔥🔥🔥

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

Dallas Cowboys as a team led the league in rushing in the most years during this time period.

EARL CAMPBELL 😮😮😮❤ Was a Beast.

Earl Campbell, Bo Jackson’s dad?😂😂😂💪🏼💪🏼

Barry Sanders, Emmitt Smith, Shaun Alexander, Derrick Henry 😤

Sack leaders each year... Receiving yards each year... Td passes....

Arian Foster was so damn good

OJ always knew you to slice & dice

RIP 1982 💀 Needs an asterisk since it was only 9 games

CJ2K & Derrick “MF” Henry #TitanTFUP and say what you want but OJ Simpson lead the league in rushing 4x and had 2k season..RIP OJ Simpson

They gave Zeke less carries every year smh could of had the rushing title in 19'

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.

17:43 🐐 2012

Barry Sanders and Emmitt Smith were just passing the baton back and forth to each other in the 90s. It’s crazy that the all time leading rusher and the best RB of all time had their primes at the exact same time

21:45 - I never get tired of Derrick Henry stiff arming Josh Norman into the grave.

y’all should do a todd gurley vid

I wish Barry Sanders had at least one or two Super Bowl Rings on his Hall Of Fame career 10:30

I miss big strong athletic RBs like prime Ricky Williams, Bo Jackson, Emmett Smith. RBs today are tiny and skinny. Get hurt too much

AD is the 2nd best back in history behind Barry.

hopefully we get some packers legends in here

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George Rogers was so decent not to shabby in his career a 1st Round 1st overall pick in the 1981 NFL Draft by New Orleans Saints but he'd won a Super Bowl Ring with Washington in the 1991 season that was incredibly sweet 5:22

Run Ricky Run 14:04

Kinda surprising to not see Marshall Faulk on the list. As dominant as he was in the late 90's/early 2000's for some reason i thought he had a few rushing titles. I know he was more all purpose but still.

Hate him all u want. You can’t diminish what OJ did on the football field . He legit would have had TWO 2000yd seasons if he he played in a 16game schedule . Top 5 all time.

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RIP Juice; Simply the Best, still.

R.I.P to the JUICE O.J. SIMPSON🙏🏽🙌🏽 1:11

Can you do 1973 week 1 when OJ Simpson rushed for 250 yards starting his record breaking 2000 yard season?

It seems people forget how baAad Eric Dickerson was at one point His most impressive feat was lading the league on the Pre-Manning Colts

Anybody could’ve ran behind the rams line from 84-87 obviously 2 different backs led the league in rushing in consecutive years

People forget how deadly the bills running game was in the early 70s

OJ Simpson the 1st RB in NFL's History to ran for 2003 yards in 1973 1:30

This was interesting.........................

Earl Campbell hit harder than ray lewis

RIP O.J. You can finally return to LA without fearing your ex wife's killer

Alot of Broncos on this list

Barry Sanders was the absolute BEST one of a kind player who never ever disappoint cause when you give him the rock he's gonna take it to the house without a doubt 1988 Heisman Trophy Winner out of Oklahoma State 1989 NFL Draft 1st Round 3rd overall pick by the Detroit Lions 10:16

Eric Dickerson was the absolute BEST in 1983 1st Round 2nd overall pick SMU by the Rams his speed was superb splendid but what a tremendously terrific football life but in the 1984 he ran for 2,105 rushing yards remains a NFL Single Season Record 5:55

shut out to Freeman Mcneil

7:50 what the heck was #94 doing??? Does he realize it's tackle football? He's acting like he had to be close enough to give him a prostate exam in order to dive at him to tackle. I hope in the footage meeting later that week that the coaches played this in front of the entire team and said "so yea....this is the nfl, not pop Warner. But actually, pop Warner kids would have at least made a small attempt to tackle so this ain't even that "

Emmitt Smith is the NFL's All-Time leading rusher in NFL's History 10:06

O.J. Simpson was the absolute BadAss of a Running Back 4X NFL Rushing Leader each and every season all 1972 1973 1975 1976 2:40

You can make a strong 💪🏿 case that OJ is the best RB ever .. Earl Campbell too

Used to be the pinnacle of the NFL to get 1k Rush Yds Now its just a afterthought

Love me some runningbacks. Really wish they were used more nowadays

O.J Simpson. Slashing defenses on the field ex wives off the field

when i saw my boy shady all i could say was fuck chip kelly. throwback is da goat

261 Rushing Yards on Thanksgiving Day vs Detroit Lions because the JUICE was LOOSE 2:55

oj was KILLER on the field

Amazes me that Emmitt doesn’t get the football equivalent of the “LeBron GOAT” argument with his longevity & consistency

Seeing that sign Eric Dickerson got 2007 it reminds me of myself graduating from high school at 20 years old now I'm 37 years old but it's true 6:37

Cmaccc

RIP OJ

Adrian Peterson ran for 2098 yards in 2012 he won NFL's MVP after a 2011 injury against the Washington Redskins

Never liked that Dickerson wore that stupid neck roll thing. Looked so stupid. 😂