how many rushing yards did walter payton have?
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Career rushing yards - 16,726
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Walter Payton - hands down.  \n\nNo one has ever had as much talent as he did.   He scored touchdowns running, receiving, passing and kicking.  He did kick a field goal and an extra point in an early game were Bob Thomas got injured.
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Without a doubt it was Walter Payton.  He was a superior human being and outstanding football player.
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Demetric Marshall of the Rocky Mountain High Gryphons needs only 16 yards to break the 25 year old single season rushing record.\nhttp://www.rockymounttelegram.com/sports/content/sports/highschools/stories/2006/11/04/RMHS.html
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Dickerson rushed for a rookie record 1,808 yards and 18 TDs; he also caught 51 passes for 404 yards and another two TDs. He led the NFL in rushing attempts (390), yardage, and yards from scrimmage, and finished second to John Riggins in TDs.
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While it is true that Eric Dickerson holds the single season *total* rushing yards record, he accomplished this in a 16-game season. On the other hand, O.J. Simpson is the only player in NFL history to break the 2,000 yard barrier in a single 14-game season. O.J. Simpson gained 143 yards per game in his record-breaking season, while Dickerson only gained 131 yards per game in his. So, the answer depends on whether you are interested in total yards or yards per game.
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Do like Walter Payton did, run up hill.
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Joe Montana -  three GW TD to 49ers mate to clinch SB XXIII\nMarcus Allen - set record for most yards (at the time) in SB history with 191 yards\nGeorge Foreman - beat Frazier in '73\nTyson - knocked out Larry Holmes in 4th round to retain championship\nGretzky - set record by scoring 61st goal\nMike Bossy - born on this date and 2nd NHLer to score 50 in 50\nJohn Taylor - scored GW TD in 49ers SB XXIII victory\n...
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Walter Payton is my personal favorite. Who knows how good he could have been if he would have played on some decent teams earlier in his career. \n\nHowever some others that might be metioned are:\n\nJim Brown - Excellent choice, can't go wrong with a Brown ;) \n\nand\n\nBarry Sanders - Best moves ever, also played on sorry teams.\n\nOne thing that works against Brown and Sanders is that they retired early, instead of stretching their careers out and maximizing their rushing yardage.\n\nAs far as a running back who flashed brilliantly for a short time.....no one burned brighter for shorter than Earl Campbell.....he was a horse....
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This stat is hard to find. I think it's because it's happened many times. (in my search I saw that Culpepper has done it at least once, for example)\n\nOn NFL.com, I found this stat for most TD passes in one game:\n\n7 Sid Luckman, Chi. Bears vs. N.Y. Giants, Nov. 14, 1943 \n  Adrian Burk, Philadelphia vs. Washington, Oct. 17, 1954 \n  George Blanda, Houston vs. N.Y. Titans, Nov. 19, 1961 \n  Y.A. Tittle, N.Y. Giants vs. Washington, Oct. 28, 1962 \n  Joe Kapp, Minnesota vs. Baltimore, Sept. 28, 1969 \n6 By many players. Last time:  \n  Peyton Manning, Indianapolis vs. Detroit, Nov. 25, 2004\n\nSo you can see that even 6 TD's in a game has occurred a lot.\n\nAnd, according to the article below, Boomer Esiason, Randall Cunningham, and even Gus Frerotte also had 5 TD's in one game.\n\nGood luck
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His best season came in 1977, when he ran for 1,852 yards.\n\n                 +--------------------------+-------------------------+\n                 |          Rushing         |        Receiving        |\n+----------+-----+--------------------------+-------------------------+\n| Year  TM |   G |   Att  Yards    Y/A   TD |   Rec  Yards   Y/R   TD |\n+----------+-----+--------------------------+-------------------------+\n| 1975 chi |  13 |   196    679    3.5    7 |    33    213   6.5    0 |\n| 1976 chi |  14 |   311   1390    4.5   13 |    15    149   9.9    0 |\n| 1977 chi |  14 |   339   1852    5.5   14 |    27    269  10.0    2 |\n| 1978 chi |  16 |   333   1395    4.2   11 |    50    480   9.6    0 |\n| 1979 chi |  16 |   369   1610    4.4   14 |    31    313  10.1    2 |\n| 1980 chi |  16 |   317   1460    4.6    6 |    46    367   8.0    1 |\n| 1981 chi |  16 |   339   1222    3.6    6 |    41    379   9.2    2 |\n| 1982 chi |   9 |   148    596    4.0    1 |    32    311   9.7    0 |\n| 1983 chi |  16 |   314   1421    4.5    6 |    53    607  11.5    2 |\n| 1984 chi |  16 |   381   1684    4.4   11 |    45    368   8.2    0 |\n| 1985 chi |  16 |   324   1551    4.8    9 |    49    483   9.9    2 |\n| 1986 chi |  16 |   321   1333    4.2    8 |    37    382  10.3    3 |\n| 1987 chi |  12 |   146    533    3.7    4 |    33    217   6.6    1 |\n+----------+-----+--------------------------+-------------------------+\n|  TOTAL   | 190 |  3838  16726    4.4  110 |   492   4538   9.2   15
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In his career, Charles Haley had 4.5 sacks (in 5 games) -- it certainly helped playing for Dallas and San Francisco, two teams it seemed were going to the Superbowl almost every year back in the 90s.\n\nThe record in one Superbowl: Reggie White had three (XXXI).
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Always a tough question...Ronnie Lott, LT, Butkas, Lambert(or anyone of the steel curtain)....I was gonna say Lott because let's face it the guy was NUTS!! but then I thought aside from Favre no one mentioned "O"...there was a Payton reference, must give SWEETNESS his props. I would give my Iron man trophy to the great Jim Brown, C'mon he played 8 years and it took Payton 15 seasons too originally break the rushing record and I think it took E.Smith 16 or 17. Jim Brown was a Def.Lines WORST nightmare and he was NEVER hurt...Running Around and THROUGH DL's and LB's(including Butkus,Ray N. and Deacon Jones). So put that in your pipe and smoke it...you should be ashamed of not even mentioning him..THE GREATEST, my runner-up was a tie between Lott and Earl Campbell( The Bastard can't even walk now he ran so hard!!)
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Jerome Bettis (THE BUS) scored three tds without a single yard last season
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Slower than slow. Thankfully he didn't have far to go when he scored that touchdown in '86. Sorry Walter.
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True.  He is only a few TDs away from the most rushing tds in a single season and he still has 6 more games in the season.  He has been averaging atleast 2 Tds per game and he doesnt always run them in for tds.  He has also caught and even passed for some tds.
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All you have to ask yourself is who were the WR/TE's on the Bears when Payton played.  When you find it hard to come up with one you'll have your answer.  \nPayton was the offense for that team.  Emmitt had several hall of fame (potential) teammates on the offense with him Aikman, Allen, Irvin, if fullbacks were given their due you'd have to throw Moose in there too its hard to think of a more consistently devastating blocker in the backfield in the past 15 years.\nPayton was a better all around player, playing with lesser talent around him achieving the same types of career #'s as Emmitt.\nWhen it comes down to it though I'd take either of them on my team any day.