Checkdowns: Trivia On 100 Yard Rushing Games

by Chase Stuart on July 3, 2018

Let’s start with some trivia.

Which running back has the most 100-yard rushing games in his career?

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Emmitt Smith is the record-holder with 78 games of 100+ rushing yards. Walter Payton had 77, and Barry Sanders had 76.

There have been 11 running backs who have rushed for 100+ yards in a winning effort in 40 or more regular season games. Ten of them are in the Hall of Fame, but the man who has done it 51 times — the third most ever — is not (and is eligible). Name him.

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Edgerrin James rushed for 100+ yards in a game that his team won 51 times.

Which running back has the best winning percentage in games when he rushed for 100+ yards, minimum 15 games?

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Chuck Foreman rushed for 100+ yards in 17 games; his teams went 16-1 in those games.

Which running back has the best winning percentage in games when he rushed for 100+ yards, minimum 30 games?

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Thurman Thomas rushed for 100+ yards in 46 games; the Bills went 43-3 in those games. Buffalo also went, um, 5-1 in postseason games where he rushed for 100+ yards.

Here’s a record that I am confident will not be broken in the next 20 years, and might not ever be broken at all. One running back rushed for 100+ yards in a game that his team lost 32 times in his career. No other player has done it more than 23 times. To get a sense of comparison, Adrian Peterson and Steven Jackson have done it 31 times, combined. Name him.

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Barry Sanders, of course.

Which running back has the worst winning percentage in 100+ yard rushing games, minimum 15 games?

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Chuck Muncie rushed for 100+ yards 16 times; his teams went 6-10.

Which running back has the worst winning percentage in 100+ yard rushing games, minimum 30 games?

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Steven Jackson did it 33 times, and his teams went 17-16 in those games.

Which running back has rushed for 100+ yards in the highest percentage of his games?

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Barry Sanders did it in nearly half of his games: 76 of 153 games, or 49.7%.

Here’s the full table below for you to come up with your own trivia questions. Smith ranks 1st in 100-yard games, and his first year with a 100-yard game was in ’90, and his last was in ’04. He had 78 such games, winning 59 and losing 19, for a 0.756 winning percentage. He also rushed for 18,355 yards in his career, first among players on this list. He played in 226 games, rushing for 81.2 yards/game in his career. And he rushed for 100+ yards in 34.5% of his career games.

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Rk 100YG	Player	FYr	LYr	100YG	W	L	Win%	Rk Rush Yd	Rush Yd	G	Rush Yd/G	Perc
1	Emmitt Smith*	1990	2004	78	59	19	0.756	1	18355	226	81.2	34.5%
2	Walter Payton*	1975	1986	77	54	23	0.701	2	16726	190	88	40.5%
3	Barry Sanders*	1989	1998	76	44	32	0.579	3	15269	153	99.8	49.7%
4	Eric Dickerson*	1983	1992	64	43	21	0.672	8	13259	146	90.8	43.8%
5	Jerome Bettis*	1993	2005	61	45	16	0.738	7	13662	192	71.2	31.8%
6	Jim Brown*	1957	1965	58	48	8	0.862	10	12312	118	104.3	49.2%
7.5	Curtis Martin*	1995	2005	57	40	17	0.702	4	14101	168	83.9	33.9%
7.5	Edgerrin James	1999	2008	57	51	6	0.895	13	12246	148	82.7	38.5%
9	Adrian Peterson	2007	2017	51	35	15	0.706	12	12276	133	92.3	38.3%
10	Fred Taylor	1998	2009	49	33	16	0.673	17	11695	153	76.4	32%
11.5	Franco Harris*	1972	1983	47	42	5	0.894	15	12120	173	70.1	27.2%
11.5	LaDainian Tomlinson*	2001	2010	47	37	10	0.787	6	13684	170	80.5	27.6%
13	Thurman Thomas*	1988	1997	46	43	3	0.935	16	12074	182	66.3	25.3%
14	Tony Dorsett*	1977	1988	45	40	5	0.889	9	12739	173	73.6	26%
15	Clinton Portis	2002	2009	44	33	11	0.750	32	9923	113	87.8	38.9%

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