A good NFL trivia question:

[ClaytonN]

Name the top 5 rushers in NFL history in terms of yards.

Obviously some people are going to answer, so I'll include the answer below in white. Write down a guess and see if you know your NFL.




<font color="white">1. Emitt Smith
2. Walter Payton
3. Barry Sanders
4. Curtis Martin (!!!)
5. Jerome Bettis </font>

[Dynasty]

Are you surprised by #4?

The guy has been in the NFL for a decade and missed less than half a dozen games. Combine that with the fact that he's always been a top running back (led the NFL last year) and it's hard to believe he wouldn't be near the top.

[ClaytonN]

Hindsight being 20/20 of course I would consider it, but he definitely wasn't somebody I was thinking of.

[Toro]

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Are you surprised by #4?

The guy has been in the NFL for a decade and missed less than half a dozen games. Combine that with the fact that he's always been a top running back (led the NFL last year) and it's hard to believe he wouldn't be near the top.

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#4 didn't surprise me at all. I only got 2 right and he was one of them. #5, Jerome Bettis blew me away though. I would have never guessed him.

[Bulldog]

Weird that you are surprised by Curtis Martin. I got the top four but guessed Dickerson instead of Bettis for #5. Looks like I would've nailed if you would've asked this question during the third quarter of the last game of last season!

1. *E Smith 18355
2. W Payton 16726
3. B Sanders 15269
4. *C Martin 13366
5. *J Bettis 13294
6. E Dickerson 13259
7. T Dorsett 12739
8. J Brown 12312
9. M Allen 12243
10. F Harris 12120
11. T Thomas 12074
12. *M Faulk 11987
13. J Riggins 11352
14. O Simpson 11236
15. R Watters 10643
16. *E George 10441
17. O Anderson 10273
18. *C Dillon 9696
19. E Campbell 9407
20. T Allen 8614

I think I might've gotten close to the whole top 20 except for Ricky Watters and Terry Freakin' Allen. That's where the (!!!) belongs.

[brettbrettr]

E Smith, W Payton, B Sanders, OJ Simpson, Ron Dayne.

[Toro]

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E Smith, W Payton, B Sanders, OJ Simpson, Ron Dayne.

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Ron Dayne, funny.

[keats]

I got them all right. But I knew the order of the top 3 and Curtis Martin just moved up into 4 last year and I watched that game and remembered it and I just saw on SC that the bus was #5.

[Soul Daddy]

I had this discussion with a friend last year how weird it is to see #4 and 5 in this list. It's not necesssarily surprising, as durability and consistency at RB over prolonged periods are fairly rare qualities, but they just don't seem to be on that level.

[brettbrettr]

Not on that level? They're both first ballot hall of famers. And until a couple of years ago both were among the most prodcutive runners in the league for ten years. Only Bettis has fallen off.