Statistics are current through the 2021 NFL season and include stats accrued in NFL, AFL and APFA games. Steve Van Buren was the first player to lead the league with consecutive 10+ rushing touchdowns seasons, in 19 he would add a third consecutive in 1949. The following is a list of the NFL career rushing leaders ranked by rushing touchdowns. 40 seasons later, in 1983, John Riggins became the first player to rush for 20 or more touchdowns in a single season. Keith Byars, Ohio State, 1982-1985, 46 career rushing touchdowns. James White, Wisconsin, 2010-2013, 45 career rushing touchdowns. Melvin Gordon, Wisconsin, 2012-2014, 45 career rushing touchdowns. Source: University of Colorado football media guide. The Big Ten football all-time leaders in rushing yards. In 1943, while playing for the New York Giants, Bill Paschal became the first NFL player to rush for 10 or more touchdowns in a single season. With all that in mind, Buffaloes Wire celebrates the greatest running backs in Colorado history with a photo gallery of the program’s top 10 leaders in career rushing yards. Marcus Allen is the only player in NFL history to lead the league in rushing touchdowns while playing with 2 different teams in 1982, Allen led the league while playing with the Oakland Raiders, and in 1993, he led the league while playing with the Kansas City Chiefs.
Steve Van Buren was the first to lead the league in 3 consecutive seasons, from 1947– 1949, a figure later matched by Jim Brown (1957–1959) and Leroy Kelly ( 1966– 1968). The first sole rushing touchdowns leader in consecutive seasons was Johnny Drake, when he led in 19. Dutch Clark became the first player to lead the league in consecutive seasons ( 19), although in 1937 he co-led the league. Jim Brown holds the record for most league-leading seasons in rushing touchdowns, with 5 ( 1957, 1958, 1959, 1963, and 1965). Prior to Tomlinson's setting of the record, Priest Holmes of the Kansas City Chiefs and Shaun Alexander of the Seattle Seahawks, jointly held the record with 27, reaching that mark in 2003 NFL season and 2005, respectively. Since then, LaDainian Tomlinson has set the record for rushing touchdowns in a season, when he led the league in 2006, with 28 rushing touchdowns, while playing with the San Diego Chargers. Record-keeping for rushing touchdowns began in 1932, when Bronko Nagurski of the Chicago Bears led the league with 4 rushing touchdowns. Although rushing has both an offensive and a defensive meaning, this list charts offensive rushing touchdowns, usually scored by a running back, either a halfback or a fullback.
What Nittany Lions have found the end zone the most on the ground during their college careers?ħ.This is a season-by-season list of National Football League players who have led the regular season in rushing touchdowns. Penn State has had more than its share of great players, Franco Harris, Lydell Mitchell, Saquon Barkley to name a trio of running backs.