Who had the best 2000 yard season in NFL history? 

OJ Simpson ran for 2000 yd in a 14 game season

Jamal ran for 2k yards with Kyle Boller and Anthony Wright throwing, it was huge to see them even throw for 150 yards in a game, with constant stacked boxes.....he was the reason that team even sniffed the playoffs. You clearly didn't watch that team play that season

Barry Sanders did it with absolutely No line!!!!!

How you gonna disrespect DICKERSON for fumbling 14 times. The Rams offense was literally give the ball to Eric every time

Chris Johnson. He also piled on 500 rec yards along with his 2000 rushing 🔥

I can understand basketball, but football is legitimately a team game. Doesn't matter how many touchdowns you run if the defense lets the other team score every time you do. To place a RB over another bc of TEAM SUCCESS is absolutely biased. Imagine running for 1500 yards every year of someone's career and having them ranked over you bc he has a better offense line, defense, quarterback, tight end, coach, GM, etc. That's crazy dude.

It's crazy Barry would break of a long run get caught at the 1-yard line And then the Lions would let somebody else score the touchdown Never made sense to me

Having less than 200 carries while also have 2k yards and 11 TDs in incredible wtf are you chatting about

1min 59 sec yeahhhhhh titanuppp bro

Barry Sanders was the entire team. it was no secret that he was getting the ball

TD won the SB, Rushing title and MVP in the same season. TD is the only 2000+ yard rusher and 20+ Tds in the same season. TD has the most rushing yards plus playoffs in a single season with 2476. He had the greatest season for a 2000 yard rusher.

The worst is Terrell Davis. Barry had 50 yards after to games and went over 100 for 14 straight games. He was also tied with the highest yards per carry at 6.0.

2 things that weren't mentioned that i feel are very important are that Adrian Peterson tore his ACL the season before his 2000 yard season and came back in only 8 months to get to that threshold. Also i completely agree with OJ being at one with another major factor being while many of the backs on this list didn't gave good QBs OJ had the worst by far with his QB having only 73 completion's all season with 2 passing touchdowns and 10 interceptions. This meant teams didn't have to worry about the pass in the slightest and knew OJ was going to run yet still couldn't stop him.

Can't forget that Barry Sanders retired early

I say ap he came off a acl mcl tear from the year before

This video was outstanding, be nice to lions players cause they have a tough life. Either way this was entertaining

From an individual standpoint, I think OJ's had to have been the most impressive due to him only doing it in 14 games. BUT, from a team winning concept, Terrell Davis's 98 season was not only the greatest 2000 yard season ever, but the greatest RB season ever, ALL things considered. That 98 Broncos squad was a top 10 all-time single season team, Davis won the league MVP and of course they basically cruised to a 2nd straight SB title. Also at 23:29, that's Mike Anderson, NOT Terrell Davis.

If you include playoffs Terrell Davis has the most rushing yards in a season and the 2nd most ever in 1998 and 1997. And 1st and 3rd yards from scrimmage as well

Given your criteria, there is no way Terrell Davis is lower than OJ. OJ played one playoff game in his career. Without Davis, the Broncos do not win either of the back-to-back super bowls.

I mean yea but Who did the ravens have throwing the ball 😭😭 that’s why jamal Lewis had that many carries

OJ, no doubt because of the 14 game season. Second place is Jamal Lewis because I like him the most.

2 more games at his average?OJ puts the record out of reach.

Barry basically had 2k rush yards in 14 games because his 1st 2 games he was stopped, so why is barry ranked at 8th

Barry had less TDs because he always got in scoring range and then the fullback ran them in. This is well documented. As for Dickinson, he played when guys were allowed to hit

They was good he made them great

Oj easily

I’m still taking Sanders

OJ number one.

The Juice is still the GOAT!

OJ. He did it in 14 games. There’s no argument to be made for anyone else at all. Period. End of story. Argue with a wall.

I will not debate anything other than by saying what Terrell Davis did. It was the least impressive… If you actually watch the games that season, you will see almost any running back would have got those yardage behind that offensive line. That said, I think the way this video was put together it was based on what’s on paper, so enjoy it.

All that matters is getting the ultimate prize at the end of the season with 2,000+ yards or it’s all for naught. Davis did it, none of the others could do it. End of the day, it’s about WINNING!

Barry sanders carried the Lions to the Wildcard round, 9 wins isn’t “didn’t do anything”

Davis and Sanders did our the same year

Lol!!! If you are playing against someone that rushed for over 2000 yards, and is basically your whole offense, playoffs defense built to stop the run, that's called coaching.

Saying you didn’t watch a lot of these guys and a guy not having a lot of touchdowns, makes your points invalid. Barry was CoMVP the year he accomplished it. But you have Chris Johnson ahead of him.

Davis should be at the top based on SB.

Let me make it easy for you: in 1998 Terrell Davis set the record for most combined yards, playoffs and regular season with 2476. He took the previous record of 2331 and obliterated it. That old record he set the previous year with his 1997 campaign. And if you want to tell me OJ Simpson did it in 14 games, well, we can play that game too. TD sat out 8 full regular season quarters because of blowout wins by his team in the 3rd and 4th quarter. In fact, he sat out in 3 more full quarters in blowout wins in his postseason games. Im sorry, but he's also the greatest postseason running back in history. If you add in his postseason numbers, hes the only running back in history aside from Jim Brown to average over 100.0 yards per game. Hes within two yards of Jim Brown.

Not great standards. Barry had less tds because he ran from further away. Also hard to perform is everyone knows who is getting the ball

Barry should be higher he had the worst line out of all the 2k club

Remember “I” before “e” except after “c”. What’s cool is only one NFL team has ever had more than 1 player rush for over 1900 yards in a season, the Titans/Oilers, and they’ve had 3! That’s awesome to me. Sadly as well known as Derrick Henry and as other worldly talented he is for some reason people still continue to doubt him. If anyone thought a little old foot injury was going to change things amongst the top RB they are as foolish as the other 31 teams that let him fall all the way to the middle of the second round. Doubters see his size and immediately look at the number of carry’s and thus assume his reign will be coming to an end sooner rather than later. Not realizing he’s so deceptively fast he really avoids a lot of straight on hits. He is unique in that yes he’s by far the biggest back but he also has the highest top speed of any back able to bowl over linebackers and then outrun defensive backs. The man finished in the top 10 in rushing last year and he missed over half the games! lol that’s just absurd. If one of these new running backs want to take King Henry’s crown they’re going to have to come take it.

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Youre entitled to your opinion but Barry Sanders ran with no o-line. He had a below average QB. Plus, Detroit never used a FB. I don’t agree with your list but thank you for taking the time to make this video.

Good video but bro Barry Sanders didnt have a good O line plus that team sucked bro.

davis missed two games worth due to migraines and the coach resting him

Jamal ran for that many Carries but do you get defenses were prepared for that??? Do you understand that. Ravens had nothing else. And he’s still ran through them. The whole league knew the ravens only had a running game. How that not impressive?

What playoff games was he watching? Henry put up historical numbers in the playoffs. Until last season and to be honest after missing that many games to expect him to come out in a playoff game and just go right back to dominating it is a lot to ask. Not to mention he had better playoffs than most these guys. This is to me another sad case of people assuming “well it happened long ago so it must have been better”. That’s why you can’t turn on a baseball greatest catches countdown and not see Willie Mays over the shoulder catch at #1. It was nowhere near the best ever there have been multiple guys since that who have alone had a couple catches better than that one (ie Jim Edmonds or Andrew Jones). Everybody in the stadium knew who was getting the ball and he faced more 8 men in the box than anyone and he still ran all over them.

14 TDs is not average for a running back bruh. Thats an all pro season number. Therefore not average.

Playoffs stats don’t mean anything for this list

AP 1 right he had nothing everybody n the box n came bakk from injuries

Your list is your list so I can’t complain but my list would go 8. Chris Johnson 7. Jamal Lewis 6. Derrick Henry 5. Barry Sanders 4. AP 3. Eric Dickerson 2. TD 1. Oj (c’mon I mean 14 games)

Barry Sanders had no line, no quarterback, team had no defense. You have to take all that into consideration. Seems like you didn't

Barry Sanders had a horrible O line

Jim Brown, O.J,Barry Sanders, Earl Cambell,Gayle Sayers,Eric Dickerson, and Bo Jackson. Walter Payton also

Sanders did not get the ball much on the goal line, also he had arguably the worst OL of all time

The fact you put Sanders 8th confirms you don’t know Dik about football 😂 RB’s aren’t QB’s ,so stop with the meaningless wins/loss bs. The lions organization has been notoriously Bad, and they NEVER loss a game because of Barry

What???????????????

Terrell Davis would have been the best RB of all time if he hadn't been hurt.

Dickerson was the 1st ever. He set the bar to begin with.