Last month when odds were released, Elliott was the favorite to lead the league in
rushing yards at +175 and tied at +300 with David Johnson to lead the league in touchdowns.
Not exact matches
The Irish had 14
rushes of
at least 10
yards and allowed USC three of the same.
Ito Smith
rushed for
at least 90
yards in six of Griggs» eight starts, and he caught
at least two passes in 12 of 13 games.
In all, 11 of the league's 14 teams returned a vast majority of last year's passing
yards, nine returned
at least half of their
rushing yards (10 if you include Missouri with the return from injury of Henry Josey), and eight returned
at least half of their offensive line starts.
Washington, a tailback
at Gavilan Community College,
rushed for 3,565
yards in two seasons, second in junior college history to Clyde Russell of Garden City (Kan.) Community College, who amassed 3,676
yards in 1971 - 72.
Bob Hightower, 17, and Joel Milligan, 17, seniors
at Baker - Victory High School in Lackawanna, N.Y.,
rushed for more than 100
yards apiece in each of this season's first three football games.
He's 89 - of - 118 (75.4 - percent) for 1,170
yards (
at 9.9
yards per attempt) with 16 touchdowns, no picks, and an incredible 145.8 rating (plus a
rushing touchdown just for fun).
Halfway through this season he has
rushed for more
yards than Eric Dickerson had
at the same point during his record - setting year.
He almost always jumped the snap (which also led to some offsides penalties), and yet even with his really good pass -
rush technique he still wasn't able to turn the corner tightly
at less than nine
yards from the line of scrimmage most of the time.
OU's top four backs have combined to average 187
rushing yards per game
at 6.9
yards per carry and have gained
at least five
yards on 51 percent of their carries (the national average is 39 percent).
The Chicago Bears lead back slots in
at +800 along with Jay Ayayi, who amassed 200 - plus
yard rushing efforts in back - to - back games in his breakout season with the Miami Dolphins.
Chris Johnson gained 141
yards to become the first visitor since the 2010 season to
rush for 100
yards at Reliant Stadium.
Green Bay won't be able to move the ball on the ground against Cleveland, which leads the NFL in
rush yards per carry allowed
at 3.3.
Proving that there is some run to complement the shoot, the Falcons won eight of the nine games in which Heyward — who averaged a career - best 4.6
yards per
rush — carried the ball
at least 14 times.
If Boone doesn't work out, the onus might fall to a redshirt freshman: 2016 star recruit Gerrid Doaks is a big dude (6» 0, 206 pounds) who chose Cincy over
at least one Big Ten offer, and after missing part of spring with a hamstring injury, he had a nice spring game, combining 61
rushing yards with 35 receiving
yards.
Montee Ball ST. LOUIS > Football Montee, a junior running back
at Timberland High, gained
at least 187
rushing yards in each of the Timberwolves» 12 games.
DETROIT — Adrian Peterson hasn't given up on his ultimate goal — «I always keep the mark
at 25,» he'll often say, meaning a 2,500 -
yard rushing season — but he quickly realized this offseason that the Vikings had changed their approach.
There are still opportunities to wager whether the Niners outscore Kobe or LeBron, but there are also wagers on whether Lionel Messi scores more goals against Valencia than Frank Gore scores touchdowns; whether Sidney Crosby scores more goals against the Capitals than Kaepernick throws touchdowns and whether Lee Westwood's final round score
at the Phoenix Open is lower than Ray Rice's total
rushing yards.
The run game was humming along pretty well against the Utes, producing 200
yards at 4.8
yards per carry, though it struggled more against a Houston front that includes sensational nose tackle Ed Oliver,
rushing for 152
yards at 3.9
yards per carry.
Boykin was only decent with his arm against Minnesota — he
rushed 12 times for 92
yards but completed only 27 of 46 passes
at 9.6
yards per completion — and we'll see if TCU can maintain that efficiency.
Led by Garner's 158
rushing yards (the first 100 -
yard game by an Oakland back this season) and a banner day for 39 - year - old wide receiver Jerry Rice (nine receptions, 183
yards), the Raiders beat the Jets 38 - 24
at Network Associates Coliseum and regained their Super Bowl - contender status.
He's also the only quarterback in history to have thrown for
at least 4,000
yards and 30 touchdowns while
rushing for 500 or more
yards as well.
Jackson got 19
yards on his third end - around of the day, bringing his
rushing total to 136
yards, seven more than the entire Nebraska offense
at that point.
From 2009 to 2012, he had
at least 1,143
yards rushing and 1,621 total
yards in four straight seasons.
In his first sustained action that year, he
rushed 22 times for 126
yards against LSU and Missouri, and for a half it looked like he might carry the limping Gators to an upset
at South Carolina.
With the Trojans trailing 21 - 3
at the half, Carroll calmly entrusted the game to Bush and fellow tailback LenDale White, who combined for 318
rushing yards after halftime.
Michael Vick had three games of
at least 100
yards passing and
rushing in his collegiate career.
Trevor Knight led the way, but seven different Oklahoma
rushers averaged
at least five
yards per carry.
Florida transfer Tyler Murphy has fit in just about perfectly
at quarterback,
rushing for 1,000
yards and passing for 1,500.
Right up there, too, is Kevin (No Relation to Marshall) Faulk, who gained 852
yards last year
at LSU, while sharing the position with, wouldn't you know it, another freshman, Kendall Cleveland, who
rushed for 562
yards and 10 touchdowns.
The only running back to go more than 100
yards all season on the Cardinals is Rams rookie Todd Gurley, but you look
at some of the other games and the
rushing totals of the opposition are positively anemic.
Blue - chipper Braxton Miller passed for
at least 2,000
yards and
rushed for
at least 1,000 in both 2012 and 2013.
I just didn't see any of those guys consistently beating offensive tackles
at the 7 - 8
yards depth that you need to get pressure on the quarterback with an outside
rush.
Three Golden Hurricane receivers had
at least 84
yards receiving, and Zack Langer
rushed 31 times for 161
yards.
Cook
rushed for
at least 64
yards in every game he started, including Week 4 when he tore his ACL.
The Raiders gained 266
yards rushing, mostly behind Shell and Upshaw on the left side, and that was a Super Bowl record
at the time.
The Williams thumbnail: Kicked off UConn's team in 2013 for stealing a teammate's credit card and using it... enrolled in a tiny Brooklyn college trying to get his football career back... enrolled
at Utah in 2015... Quit Utah's team in September 2016, telling head coach Kyle Whittingham he couldn't deal with the mental pressure he was going through... Returned to the team
at the coaches» request a month later when three backs got injured... After a month away from any physical activity, he ran for 179
yards against Oregon State, and then, in his second game, he set the Rose Bowl stadium record for a college running back,
rushing for 332
yards and four touchdowns in a Utah win over UCLA.
Heading into the Longhorns» game with Texas Tech on Nov. 8, Williams needed a 200 -
yard rushing effort to tie the NCAA record of five straight, set by Marcus Allen
at Southern Cal in 1981 and matched by Barry Sanders
at Oklahoma State in» 88.
Oregon pecks
at you, testing your limits horizontally and vertically, handing to Freeman (1,343
rushing yards, 18 touchdowns) and Tyner (511
yards, five touchdowns), using Mariota in variations of the triple option, and throwing to an extensive variety of targets.
If we look
at targets and
rushes as intended touches, running backs Royce Freeman and Thomas Tyner had 27 for 187
yards.
Before cracking his left clavicle
at the end of a 45 -
yard run against the Kansas City Chiefs on Nov. 30, Hearst became the first 49er to
rush for more than 1,000
yards since Ricky Watters did so in 1992.
Riggins
rushed for 166
yards — a record
at the time — but this touchdown came from the most important 43
yards of the day.
We know that the 3rd round pick may be a player who
rushes at an historic
yards per carry rate, or who is in the argument for the best TE in the league, or who leads the league in
rushing.
As Ferns was
rushing towards the end zone (he plays running back too), he had nothing but clear space in front of him and was going to score his 12th touchdown of the year; that is until he stepped out
at the one -
yard line.
His
rushing yardage total in the Super Bowl is set
at 67.5
yards; a total he has eclipsed in seven straight games and in 10 of his last 11 games.
Marshall had promised his players that he would subject himself to the crew «do worn by the school's Cadet Corps if the Aggies
rushed for
at least 250
yards at Colorado on Oct. 4.
Neither Motley nor Evans is likely to pull a Denard Robinson or Taysom Hill and threaten to
rush for 1,500
yards, but one assumes the read option will be in heavy rotation for Fuente and new offensive coordinator Brad Cornelsen, his co-coordinator
at Memphis.
Anderson is going off
at +135 to finish as the game's leading
rusher and has a
yard total set
at 62.5
rushing yards.
The team was scuffling, a presumptive NFC West contender sitting
at just 4 - 3, and Gore had led San Francisco's backfield in
rushing the previous two games with only 58
yards total.
Though Elliot has never played a snap
at the professional level, oddsmakers believe has a great chance to
rush for the most
yards in the league.