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Rushing Yards Per Game Leaders

Rushing yards per game repeats at 0.87, and almost all of that comes from the carry count rather than from what each carry gains.

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Who runs for the most yards?

#	Player	Games	Rushing yards per game
1	Jonathan Taylor	88	90.2
2	Derrick Henry	165	86.8
3	Saquon Barkley	116	79.7
4	Bijan Robinson	54	78.9
5	Josh Jacobs	108	74.3
6	Jahmyr Gibbs	56	73.9
7	Nick Chubb	104	72.7
8	Kyren Williams	62	72.2
9	Chris Carson	51	70.6
10	Dalvin Cook	94	68.3
11	Ezekiel Elliott	141	67.5
12	Christian McCaffrey	124	67.4
13	James Cook	78	67.1
14	Joe Mixon	120	67.1
15	De'Von Achane	48	66.5
16	Todd Gurley	79	66.3
17	Kenneth Walker III	65	66.0
18	Lamar Miller	48	64.6
19	Jay Ajayi	40	64.4
20	Le'Veon Bell	66	63.7

2016-2026, 16,735 player-games. only those with at least 4 games, applied because the question set no minimum and a rate over a handful is not a ranking.

This season

#	Player	Games	Rushing yards per game
1	Kenneth Walker III	3	120.0
2	Bijan Robinson	3	116.3
3	James Cook	3	115.3
4	Jahmyr Gibbs	3	102.3
5	Derrick Henry	3	100.3
6	Jonathan Taylor	3	86.0
7	D'Andre Swift	3	84.3
8	Jaylen Warren	3	72.0
9	Kyren Williams	3	71.3
10	Ashton Jeanty	3	68.7
11	Bhayshul Tuten	3	68.0
12	Aaron Jones	3	67.7
13	Chase Brown	3	65.7
14	Omarion Hampton	3	64.3
15	Chuba Hubbard	3	61.3

2026 so far. everyone who matched -- the usual four-game minimum was dropped because nobody in this window has played that many yet, so read a one or two game rate as the small sample it is.

What this number is worth

Split it and the two halves behave nothing alike: carries repeat at 0.92, yards per carry at 0.14. A back with a big yardage season mostly had a big workload.

When a rushing total looks out of line with the carries underneath it, expect the total to move and the carries to stay.

Split-half reliability 0.87 (0.93 projected to a full season) across 801 player-seasons, 2018–2025, every player with at least four games in each half of a season. Measured 2026-09-29 by tools/reliability_players.py; the boards above are built by the same query engine the assistant uses.

Snap Share Leaders — and Why It Is the Most Reliable Number in FantasyThe most repeatable thing a player does Target Share Leaders — the Best Receiving Signal There IsRepeats at 0.93 Targets Per Game LeadersRepeats at 0.92 Catches Per Game LeadersRepeats at 0.89