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[TREFF]

No emmitt

Rank	Player	YScm	Year	Tm
Rank	Player	YScm	Year	Tm
1	Chris Johnson (23)	2,509	2009	TEN
2	Marshall Faulk+ (26)	2,429	1999	STL
3	Christian McCaffrey (23)	2,392	2019	CAR
4	Tiki Barber (30)	2,390	2005	NYG
5	LaDainian Tomlinson+ (24)	2,370	2003	SDG
6	Barry Sanders+ (29)	2,358	1997	DET
7	Steven Jackson (23)	2,334	2006	STL
8	LaDainian Tomlinson+ (27)	2,323	2006	SDG
9	Marcus Allen+ (25)	2,314	1985	RAI
	Adrian Peterson (27)	2,314	2012	MIN
11	Edgerrin James+ (22)	2,303	2000	IND
12	Priest Holmes (28)	2,287	2002	KAN
13	Jamal Lewis (24)	2,271	2003	BAL
14	DeMarco Murray (26)	2,261	2014	DAL
15	Ahman Green (26)	2,250	2003	GNB
16	Eric Dickerson+ (24)	2,244	1984	RAM
17	O.J. Simpson+ (28)	2,243	1975	BUF
18	James Wilder (26)	2,229	1984	TAM
19	Marshall Faulk+ (25)	2,227	1998	IND
20	Terrell Davis+ (25)	2,225	1998	DEN
21	Arian Foster (24)	2,220	2010	HOU
22	Ricky Williams (25)	2,216	2002	MIA
23	Le'Veon Bell (22)	2,215	2014	PIT
24	Eric Dickerson+ (23)	2,212	1983	RAM
25	Larry Johnson (26)	2,199	2006	KAN
26	Marshall Faulk+ (27)	2,189	2000	STL
27	Frank Gore (23)	2,180	2006	SFO
28	William Andrews (27)	2,176	1983	ATL
29	LaDainian Tomlinson+ (23)	2,172	2002	SDG
30	Jonathan Taylor (22)	2,171	2021	IND
31	Priest Holmes (27)	2,169	2001	KAN
32	Barry Sanders+ (26)	2,166	1994	DET
33	Jamal Anderson (25)	2,165	1998	ATL
34	Deuce McAllister (24)	2,157	2003	NOR

You want to include/exclude players from an all time greats list, based on a listing of individual seasons of yards from scrimmage??
The mere existence of Joe schmoes like McAllister, Wilder, etc..on that list is evidence that it means little to nothing in an 'all time' context

Yards from scrimmage, career..
#1 Jerry Rice
#2 Emmitt

End of discussion

 

[TREFF]

I didn’t watch Payton growing up. I didn’t fall in love with football until 1988.

So Brown is out too.

If I agree about the Great Wall of Dallas, then I’d have to exclude the Greatest Show on Turf.

The fact these four need a disclaimer with exclusion, probably demands their place in the top five.

But I’ll play devil’s advocate…
Barry Sanders
LaDainian Tomlinson
Adrian Peterson
Marcus Allen
Curtis Martin

But Thurman Thomas is the best.
(Only one to reach four consecutive Super Bowls)

Thurman does get overlooked far too often in 'all time greats' discussions. I dunno where he belongs, but he's worth mentioning more often than he gets.

Btw, another footnote on his resume- only one to lose 4 consecutive SB's...I had to

 

[SmokingMonkey]

You want to include/exclude players from an all time greats list, based on a listing of individual seasons of yards from scrimmage??
The mere existence of Joe schmoes like McAllister, Wilder, etc..on that list is evidence that it means little to nothing in an 'all time' context

Yards from scrimmage, career..
#1 Jerry Rice
#2 Emmitt

End of discussion

there's a case to be made for longevity of career, but I don't see anyone trying to claim Frank Gore was a better or more deserving of "top 5 RB" list than some guys that he's in front of.



Smith and Peterson having nearly identical yards/game for their careers is pretty wild, a shame Peterson whipped away one of his prime seasons, but those are the two I'd have battling it out for that 5th spot.

@TKOSpikes - Greatest Show doesn't exist without Faulk, they literally pulled a guy out of the grocery store bagging line to play QB in that system and won a playoff game with Marc Bulger as their QB.

 

[TKOSpikes]

there's a case to be made for longevity of career, but I don't see anyone trying to claim Frank Gore was a better or more deserving of "top 5 RB" list than some guys that he's in front of.

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Smith and Peterson having nearly identical yards/game for their careers is pretty wild, a shame Peterson whipped away one of his prime seasons, but those are the two I'd have battling it out for that 5th spot.

@TKOSpikes - Greatest Show doesn't exist without Faulk, they literally pulled a guy out of the grocery store bagging line to play QB in that system and won a playoff game with Marc Bulger as their QB.

I agree.
Manning also attributes his success to Faulk’s leadership on the field.
And Marshall invented fantasy football.

Hard to beat 28

 

[averagejoe]

Yards from scrimmage, career..
#1 Jerry Rice
#2 Emmitt

We all have our favorites.
But category leaders are not necessarily the litmus.
If Aaron Rodgers throws for 4000 passing yards this year, he moves up to like 6th all-time. Would you put Rodgers as the 6th-best QB ever? Other than Packers fans, bet most would not have Rodgers their top 10.
Same with other positions.

 

[SmokingMonkey]

We all have our favorites.
But category leaders are not necessarily the litmus.
If Aaron Rodgers throws for 4000 passing yards this year, he moves up to like 6th all-time. Would you put Rodgers as the 6th-best QB ever? Other than Packers fans, bet most would not have Rodgers their top 10.
Same with other positions.

 

[eaglesnut]

You want to include/exclude players from an all time greats list, based on a listing of individual seasons of yards from scrimmage??
The mere existence of Joe schmoes like McAllister, Wilder, etc..on that list is evidence that it means little to nothing in an 'all time' context

Yards from scrimmage, career..
#1 Jerry Rice
#2 Emmitt

End of discussion

What a shame that Emmitt never peaked.

 

[TREFF]

We all have our favorites.
But category leaders are not necessarily the litmus.
If Aaron Rodgers throws for 4000 passing yards this year, he moves up to like 6th all-time. Would you put Rodgers as the 6th-best QB ever? Other than Packers fans, bet most would not have Rodgers their top 10.
Same with other positions.

No fer sure..especially not fringe stats, or analytics. No one thing means much of anything on its own

But all time rushing leader...I'm sorry, that just can't be discounted. That is a litmus test of the best ever. A litmus test, not THE litmus test, one of them though, one that is not biased, it us not skewed, its cold, hard, undeniable, reality...and he's WAY on top.

 

[Yellow Fuzzies]

No fer sure..especially not fringe stats, or analytics. No one thing means much of anything on its own

But all time rushing leader...I'm sorry, that just can't be discounted. That is a litmus test of the best ever. A litmus test, not THE litmus test, one of them though, one that is not biased, it us not skewed, its cold, hard, undeniable, reality...and he's WAY on top.

The point is that had Emmett ran behind a different offensive line I doubt that he would be the all time rushing leader. He is still good but may not make my top 5 all time.

 

[TREFF]

The point is that had Emmett ran behind a different offensive line I doubt that he would be the all time rushing leader. He is still good but may not make my top 5 all time.

Maybe, maybe not...but he did, and he is.

 

[averagejoe]

Maybe, maybe not...but he did, and he is.

OK, but you like Ameer too, so there's that.

 

[averagejoe]

 

[Bandit]

I've been reading all of these and for me Barry will always be #1 as a fan. There was never a more entertaining player and gave you a feeling of doing something special every time he touched the ball than he did and as a fan is there really anything else we could ask for? I just wish I had been old enough in the mid 90's to get Sunday Ticket so I didn't have to wait for Thanksgiving every year since we never got Lions games here in Florida. After that though I would go Jim Brown #2, Emmitt #3, Walter Payton #4, and Faulk and Tomlinson tied for #5.

As a shoutout to one of Joe's guys and a guy from the U, the only other player I ever felt that way about was when a kick had a chance to be returned by Devin Hester. After the initial thought of, "Wait did they really just kick it to Hester?" wore off, the excitement of what he could do with it came through.

 

[TREFF]

OK, but you like Ameer too, so there's that.

Well there's blind love, then there's reality

 

[eaglesnut]

After that though I would go Jim Brown #2, Emmitt #3, Walter Payton #4, and Faulk and Tomlinson tied for #5.

I am seeing a trend with the guys that picked emmitt also being unable to actually pick 5 guys. Just take out emmitt and then you won't have too many.

 

[Clayton]

For me- Barry, Emmitt, Jim Brown, Sweetness, and a 5 way tie between Tomlinson, Faulk, Peterson, Sayers, and Campbell. Gun to my head, I'm taking Faulk as the 5th guy as he was L.T. before L.T., and innovated the way the position is played today. Thorpe is an honorable mention imho, as a lot of what he did great, wasn't as a RB. He's much more a factor in the greatest athlete of all time discussion, than the greatest RB.

That's my top 5 although my order would be: Jim Brown, Barry, Sweetness, Emmitt, and Faulk.

 

[SteelersPride]

Just wait until gus edwards makes his way onto the list.

 

[eaglesnut]

Just wait until gus edwards makes his way onto the list.

Can he get emmitt's Oline?

 

[TREFF]

Just wait until gus edwards makes his way onto the list.

I dunno which would be worse, him or CJ Anderson...or Alf

 

[ANGELAKERAMS]

He was a friggin beast, fer sure

And he played on garbage teams most of his career.

Most years, he was the offense.

Real shame the Rams wasted his career like that.