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All-Time Leading Rushers

(Through 2005)

  Yards
1.Emmitt Smith18,355
2.Walter Payton16,726
3.Barry Sanders15,269
4.Curtis Martin14,101
5.Jerome Bettis13,662
6.Eric Dickerson13,259
7.Tony Dorsett12,739
8.Jim Brown12,312
9.Marshall Faulk12,279
10.Marcus Allen12,243
 

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