All-time rushing leaders wiki
Rushing leaders all-time.
All-time rushing leaders wiki
List of NFL career rushing yards leaders
This is a list of National Football Leaguerunning backs by total career rushing yards, and includes the 32 running backs who have rushed for at least 10,000 yards, for which sixteen of them have been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Emmitt Smith leads with 18,355 yards and is also the postseason leader with 1,586. He has held the all-time rushing yards record since 2002 and is the only player with over 17,000 regular season rushing yards.
Players with at least 10,000 rushing yards
Through Week 18 of 2024 season.
| Rank | Player | Team(s) by season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Emmitt Smith^ | Dallas Cowboys (1990–2002) Arizona Cardinals (2003–2004) | 4,409 | 18,355 | 4.2 |
| 2 | Walter Payton^ | Chicago Bears (1975–1987) | 3,838 | 16,726 | 4.4 |
| 3 | Frank Gore | San Francisco 49ers (2005–2014) Indianapolis Colts (2015–2017) Miami Dolphins (2018) Buffalo Bills (2019) New York Jets (2020) | 3,735 | 16,000 | 4.3 |