2000 yards a year is hardly a rush!
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OJ Simpson, 1973
Troy Davis at Iowa State rushed for 2010 yds in 1995 and 2185 yds in 1996. He never won the Heisman Trophy and is the only college running back to rush for over 2000 yards in a season twice.
O.J. Simpson rushed for 2003 yards in the 1973 season. The Bills starting QB that season was Joe Ferguson and the backup was Dennis Shaw.
Yes. He broke 2,000 rushing yards only once in his career - 2003 when he rushed for 2,066 yards.
Jamal rushed for 101 yards on 27 carries and scored 1 TD in Super Bowl XXXV.
No, although he had some very good running backs with Green Bay. Ahman Green played 7 seasons with Favre at Green Bay (2000-2006) and, except for 2005 when he was injured and played only 5 games, rushed for 1000+ yards in every season. He rushed for 8162 career yards with Green Bay and had a best season of 1883 rushing yards in 2003. Prior to Green, Dorsey Levins rushed for 1000+ yards in two seasons (1997 and 1999) and Edgar Bennett rushed for 1067 yards in 1995. In his one season (2008) with the New York Jets, Thomas Jones rushed for 1312 yards.
In the NFL, Earl Campbell rushed for 9,407 career yards and scored 74 career TDs. He also caught 121 passes for 806 yards and 0 TDs.
Based on census data found on Wikipedia: in 2000, Connecticut had a population of 3,405,565 people total (all races) and African Americans were 10.46% of the total population. This means that 356,222 African Americans lived in Connecticut in 2000.
2000
On December 3, 2000, running back Warrick Dunn of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers rushed for 210 yards and two touchdowns against the Cowboys. It was the third time in 2000 that the Cowboys had allowed a 200-yard rushing performance -- an NFL record. Both Duce Staley of Philadelphia and Charlie Garner of San Francisco had rushed for 201 yards each against Dallas during the month of September 2000.
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