Top 100 Runs in NFL History! 

abdikadir hashi at least

abdikadir hashi legend has it that Bo Jackson is still running in the tunnel to this day @ 23:35

Yeah B Sanders was the man. And I'm a COWBOY fan

Yep. He is the greatest!

SURELY YOU JEST!! It is quite clear you are a prejudiced sour grapes freaking Detroit Lion freak! MY FREAKING WORD 20 times you say? You ARE Joking right? What your family could not afford cable to see other games? SO dedicated to watching the Detroit Lions play so you could see your little Barry Sanders tiptoe and jerk and shake and spin his way into the arms some of the NFL's best secondary or linebackers?? Miss me with that NONSENSE. Wait Are you sure you are being Honestly?

Without a doubt

he was literally too athletic for his own good. he messed it up on a play where he had the ball and the defender had his leg but he pulled away trying to escape the tackle.

I totally agree. He was a freak of nature with speed, power, agility. That game against Cincinnati was just so freakish with that hip injury. It’s a shame we didn’t have 10 more years of that kind of generational talent

Think of all the home runs he lost the opportunity to hit!

He never ran for 1,000 yards in a season. He did have a career average of 5.4 ypc, which is obviously great. Why didn't he get more carries? He was quite good in baseball too, he had a 32 HR, 105 RBI, 26 stolen base season. Also Bo is the best player in any Tecmo football game by far.

Wow, vision, balance and strength what a good way to describe him.

@@samuraichilton Above all a Class Act

The greastest thing about him is when he juked or spun off someone he never lost his stride nor speed it was absolutely butter

There was one, but he deserved more. I thought the same thing about Tony Dorsett. He had 2 on there.

Hear! Hear! Dickerson was incredible! Can’t believe he wasn’t part of the list… that’s bad…. Also didn’t see any Franco Harris (?), Chuck Foreman, Lawrence McCutcheon, etc….

Agreed.

Yep, he was a gazelle.

Adrien Peterson?

Thank you! Appreciate it! You understand haha

Stop crying

@I Am The One Who Knocks stop crying bitch

@@NFLVault no because if you say 100 greatest runs you better show all the bestest runs

I agree at number 52 a QB sneak is not a top 💯 run. There was nothing spectacular about it.

Word. No Dickerson. What about Sanders staying on/getting traded and getting a ring.

Dickerson was once the NFL record holder over 2000 yds and he's not on this list. most of it was Lynch. someone has a hard on for lynch

They are all great but in my opinion Barry Sanders is the 🐐. Mr. Human highlight reel., And never had a good offensive line.

Ty Walter Payton was my mums baby brother..he passed away in her arms..i miss my uncle..ty again

We must be close in age, these would all be on my list as well. I also wish Billy Sims could have been more durable. I remember his rookie year. He had the talent to be one of the true greats.

Bo Jackson minus steroids equals eh!!!!!

​ other dudes were juicing then too and he still smoked them. Dude was faster than everyone. Barry was quicker than everyone but almost never the fastest guy on the field.

Nah should been there 20 times

Both wrong. This little gem by John Madden is clearly the greatest: “Usually the team that scores the most points wins the game.”

Mike Mayock is a great commentator. It was a huge loss to fans when they stopped using him for NFL games :(

EH LITTLE BOY *LITTLE BOY*

I read this comment right as he was saying it

@@george474747 Yeah, Mayock and that team were not in the commentary booth long enough. We were robbed of pure greatness.

Payton was consistently the best I’ve seen, especially given the length of his career. Barry Sanders would be next, but quit too early. I would like to have seen Wilbert Montgomery at least be in this list, and was afraid they were going to leave Marcus Allen out until near the end. They put in a few quarterback runs and “consequential” runs that could have been left out. And perhaps they should have included the game with OJ running in the snow for a record, even if he turned out to be a double-murderer who just didn’t get convicted for it. Still this was a fun one to watch and I was glad they got Dorsett’s 99.5 yard run in there. I saw that one as it happened on TV.

@@HQBergeron I definitely think Payton was the better running back between him and Sanders, no disrespect to Sanders. But Payton's longevity and hardly missing a single game throughout his career despite the beating he took day in and day out definitely makes him the better RB in my opinion. Not to mention he was a crazy good blocking back, something rarely mentioned. And had 1600 extra receiving yards than Sanders.

Much like Emmitt and Gore he was just a case of longevity

His playoff numbers were average though, especially compared to Emmitt and TD!

Payton is the only back I've watched in my years, that looked for contact. Sure he ran out when the angle went away. But a cb was aware that that 5 yard run could come with the cb on his back from a stiff arm.

and the seahawks still threw it on the 1 yard line lol

He was in it four times, 80 (with the Bills), 76, 8, 1

@@stephenpedersen5730him having 2 in the top 10 speaks for itself

true i love barry sanders

That brings back a lot of memories of going to visit my sister with all the family around and watching the Detroit Lions. Man that was some fun times.

Absolutely true which is why in the madden games in the late 90s no one questioned him as being the only 100 overall in the game.

Barry was a special special person AND a great running back

Especially when he embarrassed the cowboys defense.

tooo funny

Yo I almost spit out my coffee when I saw that. He was just standing there and then all of a sudden "oh, he's still running?!"

And Ken Norton Jr. is still tripping over himself going the wrong way trying to catch Barry Sanders. Which goes to show that you can't beat what you can't catch.

@@karlharris7374 Norton went down with his back to the play. Hard to get juked more completely than that.

Bob Sacamano Went in for a hernia operation & now you’re looking out a window going “MY NAME IS BOB”

agreed

Deadass!

Ryan Nurmi fax he has some great ones but they probably wanted to show more different guys

They, literally, could've had 100 runs just from Barry

@Harry Engel I always felt his run in Chicago was the most impressive

ya... but the bettis run in snow vs bears is .... must be a steel fan

Marcus Allen over Barry.....NAH!!!!

How they left Eric off the list? Crazy

So many great ones. I was hoping to see Terry Metcalf’s run against the Eagles which I consider one of the greatest ever.

Yeah

Same with Terrell Davis, but it's even weirder that Eric wasn't here cus Davis has a short career, Terrell played for a while

Dickerson said it himself...he always ran away from people, always ran along sidelines & step out when close to being tackled...look it up.

Nothings better than TO sprinting to get that last block to guarantee the tuddyyy

@@fki1996 honestly besides the best stiff arm of all time by Hearst about the 20 yard line, the TO sprinting downfield brings a tear to my eye, that dude had some things going on but his ability on the football field was second only to Rice, blocking included...he was trucking linebackers on many runs.

How about Jacksonville's qb Gerrard making a block 80 yards down the field on that maurice jones-drew run

i like seeing quarterbacks doing that! thats why i love me some matt hasselbeck. and russ did it too lots in his younger days.

I totally agree . One stood out to me though . Being a product of Run to Daylight , I saw the Packers great #31 , Jim Taylor , break a sweep and some 40 to 50 yards downfield have #76 Bob Skoronski ?? Get ahead of Taylor and keep the DB from trying to stop Taylor . Certainly some very , very wonderful RBs with " moves " that are almost unbelievable .And the " Power " RBs . !! AlStott , Campbell , Csonka , Jim Brown ( he was amazing ) I really don't mean to overlook any one in those clips , whatsoever The one clip that I really got a chuckle out of was Kenny Stabler s 30 plus yd run for a TD !! This clip is fabulous . For us Old Timers , seeing runs from the 50s , 60s , 70s , etc brings back a whole lot of memories !!! . For the younger viewers ,they probably wonder why the clips showing a quarterback sneak , or 3 yard run by a Colts RB (Ameche ? ) are on this clip . I'm fairly certain that RBs , Hugh McElhaney, W. Galinore ( the Wisp ) The predecessor , to great Chicago Bears RBs Gayle Sayers , and " Sweetness " . This clip is terrific . It touches just about everything From the historic TD in OT , Ice Bowl QB sneak to The TD that marked the greatest comeback in SB history !!! Some obscure " Old Timers " players . I hope younger fans , players , coaches will watch this wonderfully researched film .Not only from the terrific runs by the RBs but the complete efforts of the rest of the O getting downfield to block . Not to overlook the seemingly " ho Hum ' running plays that shaped the history of the NFL . I can't even imagine how much work , study and time this piece took to create . But , I really , really think it's terrific . Thank You !!

Peete was more of a fan then a teammate to sanders. Peete would say to coach fontes all the time, don't worry, we got Barry (that's true) When Peete was handing the ball to Barry. He was saying, "Will you sign this?" Peete had a hard time controlling himself around Barry as a rookie, from what I remember.

Yep so cool. THen they show the 5-11 record for the year and you realize Barry Sanders wasnt the impact player we thought he was

oops just duplicated your comment today! deleting it now.

I paused the vid to give this very comment. Nice to see someone (many someones), seeing the same thing. Gawd, I love football!

@@xkmmx2132 Then by that standard Gayle Sayers, Bo Jackson, Eric Dickerson, Terry Metcalf, et. al. were not impact players since their teams were not championship caliber. There, I fixed it for you.

while a great runner, there's no comparison of Sanders to Gale Sayers.....greatest open field runner in football history

Derrick Henry.

@@shared-value Gale's career was cut short due to injuries, unfortunately. Not enough kids know about him. Really, it's just like Bo, a what could have been but the legend of Bo and his mystic lives on

@@ronaldharrison819 Henry is, absolutely, amazing. Barry, Gale, Walter or Bo he is not

Barry Sanders ran for 5 negative runs for every 1 he busted open.

Never seen it, but would love to.

Waaaay high you know that. At least 70 or 80.

But then you saw a qb sneak and the pitch from brady to white and realized how fucking horrible this list was

I never saw much of Bo Jackson. When we lost the Colts, didn't watch much football until the Raven's playoff run to their first Superbowl. Co-workers were raving about Jackson back then. From all the film I've seen of him, he was everything they said.

when bo was 100 i knew it was gunna be bad

A good list having a couple of Herschel Walker knockout runs would have made it a great list

😂😂😂

Because they knew they'd have to pay him more if he was the SB MVP and that's why they didn't want to let him score his 3rd TD. For the fans it has to be about the biggest betray by a braintrust that makes next years personnel moves during the SB. For me who was sore from the beating the last time it was a great thing to see happen.

Paul Michel you really think that was it?😭 I think they would’ve rather taken a super bowl than paying som1 more

@@paulmicheldenverco1 Idiot conspiracy theory bullshit. The Hawks had a balanced offence that relied on Wilson's arm as much as Lynch's legs. They didn't give him the ball more because they didn't think it would win games. Sometimes things are actually what they seem.

Low blow bro

Had to wait all the way to #10 to see "the run."

Earl Campbell had so many better runs than what they showed, he used to regularly catch defensive backs on his shoulder and throw them out of bounds while still running down the sideline. I've only seen 1 highlight of that, but he did that a lot.

He worked for that shit. His shirt was a RAG at the end of that run.

Earl Campbell was the most powerful running back I ever saw play the game. And it's not even close. I'm a Seahawks fan, and I am a huge fan of Marshawn Lynch. And as great as Beastmode was, he still doesn't hold a candle to Campbell.

@@nikolatesla5553 As a life long Oiler fan, it's hard to argue with you. But I'll put Campbell at #2 most powerful all time. #1 was Jim Brown.

Anyone who remembers Howard Cosell would have known how much an announcer can bring to a game!

Same with Vin Scully!

Yeah, but at least they snuck a Billy Sims play in there, which is good if you're a Lions fan.

Not taking anything away from the best backs but Barry Sanders was GOAT!!!

Barry had something like 5 in there. I think he might have the most of anybody.

Barry Sanders was truly one of the greats, but to claim he was "by far the greatest running back of all time", is a real stretch. Barry had 3,062 carries for 15,269 yards, with an average of 5 yards per carry. His longest run was 85 yards. He had 352 catches for 2,921 yards and scored 109 touchdowns.' Walter Payton rushed for 16,726 yards, (1,457 more than Sanders), which broke the record for most rushing yards by any NFL player in history. He caught 492 passes (140 more than Barry) for 4,538 yards and 125 touchdowns (26 more than Barry). The ONLY place that Barry Sanders stats are better than Walter Payton is the yards per carry average, where Barry had 5 and Walter averaged 4.4.

@@buckbuchanan4902 Walter Payton was an amazing back who played on a championship team with a great offensive line and Walter played 3 more seasons than Barry. Barry played on a shit team with a crappy offensive line but still put up the numbers,picture Barry behind Walters or Emmits offensive line Barry would hold most records. So it’s not a stretch my friend Barry set records on a mediocre team.

The camera angle doesn’t let us see how Barry survived that, he’s just still on his feet when everyone else goes down. My favorite Madden quote from that play “Barry keeps his feet moving, that’s how Barry runs.” Something like that

Disco feet!? sweetness is the man

@staceypayton8 your uncle is possibly my favorite player, without a doubt my favorite runningback. The man is a major role model to me as well as countless other people. A legend for eternity

Especially when he ran over the entire Kansas City Chiefs defense.

And there were 2 Steve Young runs on this top 100 video!

Good thing were not a metric country, right?

I would say the same thing

I don't think I remembered how unbelievably fast he was - open field and he gone!

Br. Yeah he was fast! He Just didn’t look like it

they only had one of Gale Sayers, he to could easily have 50, Campbell had only one, Not one Dickerson run in 100 runs wtf were the quarterbacks in there for ??? I don't think they had a Franco Harris, it goes on and on Whoever put this together was a major Brain Fart

You're starting a team and can pick one player. I pick Barry.

That’s cuz it was unnatural you don’t see the rope tied around his waist? Lol

he had the perfect build , super stocky, short, and legs as thick as tree trunks. the GOAT

Still the best RB I’ve ever seen n I’m 52 yo.

Barry had more moves than a box of Ex-Lax

He was food at karate too, apparently. 😆

That's my favorite part of that run. That one is still #1 in my book.

That run embarrasses Tony Casillas to this day.

Hilarious!

That juke on the linebacker or safety 😱😱😱😱😱

😂😂😂

Only a fool would disagree. Ive got Barry, Bo, Peterson, Emmitt Smith, Jim Brown and Trent Dilfer as the top six of all time.

I agree

breaks 10 tackles

Marion Barber was a monster

It looks like the video has been taken down but there was 5-6 minute video and every play was just Barry Sanders having amazing backward runs. He also has the most total negative yards ever with over 1000+ over his 10 year career. It might be included in one of the longer football docs.

Mike Alstott had a run as good against the redskins

Marion Barber passed?? Oh man, that hurts. God rest his soul.

Facts

Rey K facts

I swear...

Walter Payton had 125 career tds

Whitley Lyle and? Not every great run has to go for a touchdown

Add Gayle Sayers to Barry and Walter and there's your top 100.

Brad Miller also with Jim Brown

Glad they didn't take your advice

Unfortunately, he is crippled from all the beating he dished out.

Makes a damn good sausage, too.

Love Houston Oilers fight song, love earl Campbell, in unstoppable running in the NFL and college

Yep, me too. Greatest "power back" of all time....

One of the best runs people seem to forget is his run against Philly where he disappeared into the middle of the pike then somehow just emerges. Unbelievable strength.

@@Dedjester-to9uk I know which run you're referring to also! That was awesome. I believe that was his second season with the Seahawks.

Did they play Beast Mode 2 here against the Cards ?

@@Dedjester-to9uk Funny....when Marshawn was drafted, I argued with a bunch of Bills fans about Marshawn's best traits...I argued it was his strength that everyone will remember. Bills fans said it was his quickness. Sure, he was quick, but his strength was off the charts.

@@Dedjester-to9uk this is the one you're talking about, right? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GbjVLmmIk1U.html

Oh my

There really wasn't enough of him on this list. #97 and I'm not sure where else.

That and they seem like they have more than 1 brain cell

ED is in the top 5 all time and M. Lynch doesn't even crack top 10.

NO SHIT !! The man ran for almost 4,000 yds in his 1st 2 seasons !! { That classic run vs NY Jets in the record year of 1984 should be Top 3 !!

"In some regards, I don't think [ED] ever gets the credit he really deserves." --Marcus Allen on ED.

Why is that?

One of the best to ever do it, and such an iconic look as well

More to the point, shame on the Lions for never giving him the coach he deserved. Lions had great Personnel on both sides of the ball, and the best they could do was give him a coach with a hidden cocaine habit and could not coach his way out of a wet paper bag.

Shame on him for being dumb enough to resign with that dumpster fire. Larry FItzgerald decided that he would commit career suicide too so shame on them. You watch a franchise be that inept year after year and keep signing contracts its on you when you retire with no gold

@@xkmmx2132 I believe dumb is too harsh of a judgment. After all, they both retired still able to move and function. They're both financially set for life. They are both first-ballot hall-of-famers. You don't achieve any of those being dumb.

They did the same thing to Calvin Johnson. The lions organization is terrible, I feel bad for their fans.

Big Barry Barry was the truth 🙌

the Beast Quake run was mind blowing. I watched that game in a bar and we nearly blew the roof off that place it was so loud in there as Lynch ran down the field and over everyone on the Saints D

Notice he grabs his junk in the last clip!

He had one good run. But hes overrated

@@Maradala no he’s not lol that was the greatest run ever

so was lt (landanian tomlinson)

Still got my a train jersey. Hell yeah, Dunn and Alstott, the ultimate speed and power combo

@Randall Kildare Mike Alstott is not a Hall of Famer.

@@bbigjohnson069 he will as a fullback, hes number 9 on the all time best fullbacks.

That pairing made me a Bucs fan. Shame fullbacks are a dying breed in Football these days, because Alstott was magnificent.

@@scottw2157 i doubt it.

Walter Payton was the real Bruce Willis.

I agree. If I had to pick one running back from them all, it would be Walter Payton.

You obviously missed out on Marshawn Lynch.

Barry Sanders should be number 1

Nah Walter was the best

Imagine Barry vs Walter twice a year (Det-Chi)

But that’s just my opinion

I think Jim brown is the best of all time. Got 12,000 yards in shorter seasons.

As a Vikings fan, yes he was!

@@louisstiles6861 Not sure that was Barry Sanders... I remember Billy Sims doing the Kick, not Sanders.

Gotta agree, IMHO he shares the #1 spot with Payton. But it would be crazy what he could have done with a good team around him.

You spelled Walter Payton wrong buddy

As a die hard SEATTLE fan. I agree with you. Detroits barry sanders was incredible to watch. Just imagine if he played with the lions another year or 2. He would be the all time leader in yards and rushing tds

😂😂😂😂😂😂well done

That run was so good it killed someone

That bronco run baby

Would you say it was a killer run?

Was that the run against the broncos?

Sims

And after the commentator says “ Billy came to play some football today!” I guess! Such a shame his career was so short.

I just saw that for the first time. The best football move ever

it's not like they craig james and eric dickerson in college. thurman was the starter and got the lion share of the work.

Poor coaching.

@@StCros Do coaches run the ball🤔

Oh and Mike Gundy was the starting QB

@@vin9277 i forgot about that

Beastquake babyyyy

I was watching that game in 1978 when Earl Campbell ran over Isiah Robertson. My friends and I were all talking about that run the following Monday at school 😃. Good times.

@@derricklowe2823 ditto!!!

Although my opinion will always be that Sanders was better than Lynch, there's little room to argue that Lynch deserved the top spot. Sanders was more like a magician with how elusive he was, Lynch was like a freight train you have no chance of derailing!

I could watch that run every dam day. Man I miss Lynch

I never caught that until you pointed it out. Good stuff.

Raidersss

Where's Bo running over Boz?

it's like, i remember his epic runs, the physicality, agility , cutting , trucking bulldozing, stiff arming. but seeing them again is just WOW

You know it's good when multiple other plays have the commentators referencing it

Seriously. I'll never forget where I was when that play happened. It's honestly one of the two or three most firmly-imprinted memories in my life along with Flacco-to-Jacoby in Denver 2012 & maybe Lucas scoring for Tottenham vs. Ajax in last season's CL Semifinal, though that one is still too recent to know I suppose. Regardless, that's still more so than: Ravens '00 SB, Ravens '12 SB, UMD Men's Basketball '02, UMD Women's Basketball '06, Caps Stanley Cup '18, my 1st kiss or 1st time having sex, getting married, getting divorced, meeting Royce da 5'9" @ Rock The Bells '09, getting blazed with Mustard Plug's drummer @ Warped Tour '07, 9/11, the DC/MD sniper, Hurricanes Floyd + Isabel, the '08 & '16 elections...you get the idea.

That's the day Seattle gained half thier current fan base.

the juice is loose! took on a whole darker meaning in 1990s but he was my dad's favorite player in the 70s

Barry Switzer has a room for Earl at all times. TX/OU is an event. The State Fair of Texas is a Holy event in football lore...Get a Turkey leg and ride the bumper cars. Funnel cakes, Lemonade, the chicken that beats you at tic tac toe...

Amen bo knows and as they say at auburn war eagle!

Barry Earl of course , bo isn't anywhere near the top tier .

Beast Mode too

Earl got robbed. The run against the Rams is the best run ever imo

I don't believe Walter was on Tecmo Bowl, I believe it was Neal Anderson.

@@tommyjames3675 Walter was on the roster. If the defense didn't pick a run play, Walter, in the hands of a skilled Nintendo player could score every time.

Dickerson was good, too; assuming you had the original version with him and not the version released shortly after the original that strangely put Albert Bentley as the RB.

@@88Heckenlively no it was Anderson

@@tommyjames3675 well,there was original Tecmo Bowl,and Super Tecmo Bowl. I believe Walter was on original,and Neal was on super...