Again, Brown played in many fewer games, though he averaged 0. Alexander makes this list despite playing just nine seasons, and scoring just 11 touchdowns in his final three seasons. Speaking of what could have been, Sanders fell just short of TDs thanks to just four rushing scores in his final season. In fact, Vardell also had six rushing TDs in , and all of those came from the 1. Yes, according to pro-football-reference.
Peterson may pass Sanders in overall plus-yard TDs, but three of his long TDs fall outside the year span. Oh, and if you were wondering about the real long-distance threat of a plus-yard touchdown, Peterson is first with 16, though just 14 came in his first 10 seasons.
Sanders had 15 over his career. Who would you rather have? Contact Ryan Ford at rford freepress. Follow him on Twitter theford. Read more on the Detroit Tigers and sign up for our Tigers newsletter. I have enjoyed playing for two great head coaches, Wayne Fontes and Bobby Ross, who are good coaches and leaders. I am not involved in a salary dispute of any kind. If I had played this season, I would have earned a more than satisfactory salary.
The reason I am retiring is simple: My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart through and through and feel comfortable with this decision. Lions management, coaches, players and fans studied that announcement for any hint of who was to blame.
This was a player with four years left on a contract, signed just one year prior. At the time he signed, the Lions made him the highest-paid player in NFL history. He was showing few signs of slowing down. Sanders rushing totals for the previous five seasons were 1,, 1,, 1,, 2, and 1, Those years also produced three of his top-four seasons for rushing yards-per-carry of 5. This was a healthy star at the peak of his powers, with years left on a new contract.
Was it the general manager? His last contract negotiation was difficult, with Sanders holding out from mini-camp. Was it head coach Bobby Ross? For amusement only. Minimum pass attempts to qualify as career leader. Minimum pass attempts to qualify as career leader, minimum pass attempts for playoffs leader.
Only games ending in a win or tie are included. Minimum 75 punt returns to qualify as career leader. Similar Players Sim Score Explanation. Appearances on Leaderboards, Awards, and Honors. Hall of Fame Monitor. All-Pro Teams. More Sanders Pages. Full Site Menu Return to Top. All-time Scores , Find a Score All Player Colleges , High Schools Against one of the nation's best defenses, Sanders couldn't be stopped.
Just before the half, he took an option pitch from Gundy, juked past Oklahoma safety Kevin Thompson, then dashed 67 yards to set up a touchdown to put the Cowboys back in the game. In the fourth quarter, Oklahoma State trailed on third-and-goal. But Sanders slithered his way into the end zone again. The Sooners came back to win , only after Oklahoma State dropped a potential game-winning touchdown in the end zone on fourth down in the final seconds.
And for an encore, he rushed for , , and yards in Oklahoma State's final four games, all blowout victories. That's what's scary. If he had played every game, he might have rushed for 4, yards.
Sanders might not have cared about individual numbers or even the Heisman, but he won it anyway, easily besting USC quarterback Rodney Peete and UCLA quarterback Troy Aikman by capturing 78 percent of all first-place votes. Sanders was actually in Tokyo, Japan, where he was preparing for Oklahoma State's regular-season finale against Texas Tech, when he found he won the Heisman. Jones basically had to drag Sanders to a studio in downtown Tokyo at 5 in the morning for the Heisman announcement.
After Campbell had left, Sanders turned to Jones in disbelief and said, "Earl Campbell just asked for my autograph. No one had produced a season like it. Not Marcus Allen.
Not Tony Dorsett. Not Herschel Walker. Not Bo Jackson. But not like him. From Ron Dayne to Adrian Peterson, there have been other impressive seasons. But Sanders' rushing and touchdown records remain safely intact. Skip to main content Skip to navigation. Is Barry Sanders' season untouchable? We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.
To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. That tweet always involves some kind of narrative that leads me on this giant plunge into Stat Land where I stare at a computer screen for two days while I compile stats to prove that person wrong. This past Tuesday was Lions legend Barry Sanders birthday. As we do every year, we light up Twitter with highlight videos and talk about the good old days while making the required comments about how nobody will ever be as good as Sanders was on the field.
I made two. Including this one. As I was wading through the dumb Saquon Barkley related responses I came across the one that sent me down this spiral of statistics and is the root cause of me writing this article.
Here it is. These are all fantastic, but if you really want to be knocked over, go look at some of his runs that ended up going for no gain or even losses.
This really got me thinking a lot. I was just a kid when Barry was playing.
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