On Friday, I looked at the career rushing leaders in “yards over worst starter.” Today, let’s look at the single-season list.

In 1963, Jim Brown rushed for 1,863 yards in a 14-team NFL. The baseline that year was 541 yards, which represents the 14th highest individual rushing total that year. So Brown exceeded that number by a whopping 1,322 rushing yards. Given that 1963 was a 14-game NFL season, that translates to a pro-rated value of 1,511 yards, the third best ever. The table below shows the top 300 single seasons.

• Walter Payton, Barry Sanders, and Emmitt Smith each have nine seasons in the top 300. Incredibly, all 9 of Payton’s top 300 seasons are top 200 seasons, while Sanders has 8 top 150 seasons.

• Jim Brown and Curtis Martin are next with 7 top-300 seasons, although in Brown’s case, that’s 7 seasons in the top 80!

• You won’t be surprised to learn that Dallas has 16 seasons make the top 300. That’s what happens when you combine Smith and Tony Dorsett, plus get one season each out of DeMarco Murray and Herschel Walker. But the Cowboys are not the only team with 16 such seasons. And it would probably take you awhile to guess which other team that is.

• But the Rams actually take the top spot with 17 seasons, albeit spread across two cities. In Los Angeles, Dan Towler (1952), Dick Bass (1962, 1966), Lawrence McCutcheon (’74, ’76-’77), Eric Dickerson (’83, ’84, ’86), Charles White (’87), Greg Bell (’88), and Jerome Bettis (’93) make the list, while Marshall Faulk and Steven Jackson combine for five additional top-300 seasons since the franchise moved to St. Louis.

• You won’t be surprised to see that the Dolphins have just three seasons in the top 300. When Miami had a great rushing game, it was split among players like Larry Csonka, Mercury Morris, and Jim Kiick. And then Miami went 17 years without a 1,000-yard rusher. One of the 3 entries is Andra Franklin‘s 701 grind-it-out rushing yards during the strike-shortened 1982 season; the other two came from Ricky Williams.

• The Cardinals only have 4 top-300 seasons, but that’s hardly surprising, with John David Crow‘s 1960 season joining 3 Ottis Anderson seasons. What’s more surprising is that the Raiders have only four seasons on the list, too. Marcus Allen in ’82 and ’85 is bookmarked by Mark van Eegehn and Napolean Kaufman each having one top-300 season in ’77 and ’97, respectively.