By John Turney
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| Art Credit: Geroge Bartell |
After all these years Jim Brown is still first on a list of yards per game rushing and yards from scrimmage and touchdowns rushing and receiving per 16 games as well.
We've made this chart per sixteen games because we like seeing it that way, but it could be yards per game or per 14 games or 12 games but we chose 16 games due to the current (soon to be defunct) schedule length.
Yes, to include Gale Sayers we made the minimum games to qualify 60 but that could also be altered to 100 or 70 or whatever you wish.
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The number #1 back of all-time on most people's list, though I prefer Payton.
ReplyDeleteI know Brown is superior to Gilchrist but it would be interesting a Tale Of The Tape between the two, in their prime.
I am basing my guesses on what I have seen on film/tape and read from sources, though John, Coach Troup, Nick, Ken, Jeffrey and others might know the answers ...
Bigger Back ... Gilchrist
Faster ... Brown
Quicker ... Brown ?
Powerful ... even
Runner ... Brown
Receiver ... Brown
Blocker ... Gilchrist
Versatile ... Gilchrist
Meaner ... even ?
Team players ... Gilchrist
Selfish/Moody ... even
Winners ... even
Both liked money, we can only speculate would Gilchrist could have been for the Browns or another NFL team from the beginning of his career.