A Collection of All-Time Great Running Backs and Priest Holmes

Running Backs Ranked in terms of RB Score per game and Rushing Yards per game

RB Score = All Yards – 3*All Plays – 30*Fumbles Lost

All Yards = Rushing Yards + Receiving Yards

All Plays = Rushing Attempts + Receptions

Data taken from Yahoo.com

Average RB Score per Game = 26.5

Average RB Score per Play = 1.3

Rank Rushing Yards per game	Rank RB Score per game	Running Back	Games	Rush Attempts	Rushing Yards	All Yards	All Plays	Fumbles Lost	RB Score	RB Score per game	RB Score per play	Rushing Yards per game
1	1	Barry Sanders*	153	3,062	15,269	18,190	3,414	21	7,308	47.8	2.1	99.8
2	2	LaDainian Tomlinson	106	2,266	10,048	13,355	2,711	10	4,922	46.4	1.8	94.8
12	3	Marshall Faulk	176	2,836	12,279	19,154	3,603	25	7,595	43.2	2.1	69.8
13	4	Tiki Barber	154	2,217	10,449	15,632	2,803	21	6,593	42.8	2.4	67.9
5	5	Fred Taylor	123	2,221	10,221	12,460	2,489	15	4,543	36.9	1.8	83.1
14	6	Thurman Thomas*	182	2,877	12,074	16,532	3,349	6	6,305	34.6	1.9	66.3
3	7	Edgerrin James	123	2,746	11,193	14,355	3,153	22	4,236	34.4	1.3	91.0
10	8	Ricky Watters*	144	2,622	10,643	14,891	3,089	25	4,876	33.9	1.6	73.9
15	9	Warrick Dunn	161	2,436	10,044	13,994	2,893	15	4,865	30.2	1.7	62.4
4	10	Curtis Martin	168	3,518	14,101	17,430	4,002	16	4,944	29.4	1.2	83.9
7	11	Shaun Alexander	114	2,118	9,205	10,696	2,330	17	3,196	28.0	1.4	80.7
16	12	Marcus Allen*	222	3,022	12,243	17,654	3,609	22	6,177	27.8	1.7	55.1
8	13	Corey Dillon	150	2,618	11,241	13,154	2,862	19	3,998	26.7	1.4	74.9
6	14	Emmitt Smith*	226	4,409	18,355	21,579	4,924	35	5,743	25.4	1.2	81.2
9	15	Eddie George*	141	2,865	10,441	12,668	3,133	22	2,609	18.5	0.8	74.0
11	16	Jerome Bettis*	192	3,479	13,662	15,111	3,679	24	3,351	17.5	0.9	71.2
		Priest Holmes	106	1780	8172	11134	2119	11	4447	42.0	2.1	77.1

* - fumbles lost for years before 1994 had to be estimated. It was assumed that fumbles lost per play before 1994 was the same as after.