NFL quiz
Every 2,000 yard rushing season in NFL history
Two thousand rushing yards in one regular season: the rarest mark a running back can reach. The year is showing; name the back.
- Format
- Type them all
- Items
- 9 answers
- Limit
- 2:30
- Level
- Medium
- Checked
- 2026.10.03
- Answers
- 9
- Time limit
- 2:30
- Order
- Any order
- Matching
- Case and accents ignored
- Type an answer; it files itself the moment it matches.
- One answer can fill several slots.
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Name the player behind every 2,000 yard rushing season.
| Season | Player | Total and team |
|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Not found yet | |
| 1984 | Not found yet | |
| 1997 | Not found yet | |
| 1998 | Not found yet | |
| 2003 | Not found yet | |
| 2009 | Not found yet | |
| 2012 | Not found yet | |
| 2020 | Not found yet | |
| 2024 | Not found yet |
About this quiz
Rushing for 2,000 yards means averaging more than 117 yards a game across a 17 game season, and more than 125 across the 16 game seasons in which most of these were set. This is every such season to the end of the 2025 season.
- The record is 2,105 yards, by Eric Dickerson in 1984.
- The first was O.J. Simpson in 1973, in a 14 game season.
- The most recent was Saquon Barkley in 2024.
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