Sunday, October 27 Emmitt Smith: By the numbers Associated Press |
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1 -- yard on first career carry. 2 -- MVP awards: for 1993 regular season and January 1994 Super Bowl.
3 -- Super Bowl championships. 4 -- rushing titles. 4.3 -- career per-carry average. 5 -- siblings, including Emory, who made Cowboys' practice squad in 1997. 6 -- NFL career rushing leaders since stats started being kept in 1932; all are Hall of Famers. 7 -- games missed (four with injuries, two for holdout, one inactive). Dallas is 1-6 without him. 8 -- seasons with 10 rushing TDs, two more than anyone else. 9 -- Pro Bowl selections. 11 -- seasons with 1,000 yards, an NFL record. All are in a row. 11 -- yards on run that broke the NFL career rushing record. 17 -- number overall draft pick in 1990. 20 -- 100-yard games after age 30, second to Walter Payton's 23. 20 -- carries; Dallas is 97-25, including playoffs, when he gets that many. 22 -- teams he's run for 100 yards against. 22 -- jersey number. 25 -- rushing TDs in 1995, an NFL record. 42 -- team-record touches (32 runs, 10 catches) in 1993 season-finale vs. Giants, 17 after separating right shoulder. 44 -- 1-yard TD runs. 45 -- 100-yard games in high school, a national record. 58 -- records set at Florida. 75 -- 100-yard games in the NFL, two shy of Payton's mark. 75 -- longest career TD run. 86.6 -- average yards over 192 career games, fifth-best all-time. 93 -- games needed to reach 100 career touchdowns, tying Jim Brown's record. 150 -- career rushing TDs; previous mark was 123. 237 -- yards in best game, Oct. 31, 1993, against Philadelphia. 540 -- yards needed to break career rushing record when season began. 1,586 -- postseason yards, a record. 1,773 -- yards in best season, 1995. 3,929 -- career carries, an NFL record. 8,804 -- yards at Escambia (Fla.) High, third in national history at the time. His 106 TDs were also No. 3. 16,743 -- career yards, an NFL record. |
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