Who is the best racer of all time?
Here is the answer…

or Barry Sanders

or Walter Payton

or Emmett Smith

Jim Brown

or Ladainian Tomlinson

Who is the best racer of all time? Well why don’t we look at the list, first Barry Sanders, Walter Payton, Emmett Smith, Jim Brown and finally Ladanian Tomlinson? First, Barry Sanders, the man called “the slipperiest running back in NFL history” and it’s hard to argue with that. In 1996 he carried the rock 314 times and had 1,500 yards. Not to mention 400 catch yards in the backfield, he too crossed the plain 12 times and earned rookie of the year honors in 1989 when he was just ten yards shy of the rushing title and had 280 rushes, and tied for second in rushing. touchdowns he had 3,606 rushing yards in the next two years, including a 2,053-yard rushing season. That same season, he would achieve a mark of 300 receiving yards to create a one-third chance per season that he would reach 300 receiving yards and 37 touchdowns in those three years, yet he would sink in the end zone with only 4 touchdowns. in 1998. season. But was there really ever a “depression” for Barry Sanders? Well the only negative about him is his bare knuckles.

So who’s next on the list? Well, it has to be Walter Payton. Payton, who played 12 years, is the all-time leader in combined net yards and rushing. He has MVP honors twice in his career in 1977 and 1985. In his career he has nearly half a thousand catches for forty-five hundred yards and 15 touchdowns, so he wasn’t much of a vertical threat. But while we’re talking about football’s passing game, he had 34 pass attempts in his career for 331 yards and 8 touchdowns. He had a rush of 16,000 yards and 100 touchdowns in his twelve-year career, not the No. 1 rusher of all time on paper. His best record, perhaps most rushing yards in a game, 275 against their division rival, the Minnesota Vikings. But, “Sweetness” has a super bowl ring on his finger, and seventy-seven hundred-yard dash games.

So we’ve covered Payton and Sanders, but now a man who will always be remembered as the cream of the crop, Emmitt Smith. Emmitt had nearly 1,000 rushing yards in his rookie season, where he earned rookie of the year honors. His best season was in 1993. Where he won AP NFL MVP, Bert Bell MVP Trophy (Maxwell Club), PFWA MVP, Super Bowl MVP, and UPI NFC Offensive Player of the Year. Emmitt is another running back with a ring, but on this list he’s the most impressive so far because he’s the all-time leader in career rushing yards with 18,335 and shows durability playing 3 years more than Payton and 6 years more than Sanders. Not to mention thirty-two thousand receiving yards. Emmitt did all this while being one of the best running backs and one of the shortest at just 5’9″ and weighing just 212 over the course of his fifteen-year career. But what is perhaps the most impressive stat is almost 1000 rushing yards in 2004 with the Arizona Cardinals. But was there something wrong with the way he carried the ball? He averaged an average of 5 fumbles per year. So all of these running backs have one flaw or another on their resume, but none of them it is perfect.

Now there are three backs down two to go. These next two are the ones that keep coming up. Jim Brown also nearly reached the century mark in his rookie year, but he did it in just 12 games. Goal scoring was not one of his highlights with 109 Touchdowns in his career. Now that wasn’t bad considering he played 8 seasons in twelve and 14 game seasons, that’s 128 games. He was known for his deadly stiff arm that brought him 12,312 rushing yards, or more than 100 yards a game, but he was playing against 1957-1965 competition that wasn’t nearly as good.

Now even though the competition is great and amazing like Ray Lewis, Jason Taylor, John Lynch and Champ Bailey, you have to be great to play against great players. Great is a word that comes up when you talk about this man, LaDainian Tomlinson. Tomlinson reached the 100 touchdown mark within the 70-70 games played range. He was the fastest in NFL history to reach 100 touchdowns. He is the all-time leading points scorer, he broke Paul Hournings’ record. He is explosive, he can catch, pass and of course run. He holds the single-season touchdown record and is still going at 30 right now. In his sixth season, he has nearly broken Jim Brown’s touchdown record two years earlier and against better competition. He even addresses Jim Brown as Mr. Brown. Unlike anyone else on this five-man roster, he had 1,236 yards in his rookie season with ten touchdowns and 350 receiving yards. He has never had a season under 1,200 rushing yards and this season he has over 1,700 rushing yards. In 2003 he had 1,600 rushing yards and 700 receiving yards. With 900 more yards in his career he will reach 10,000 rushing yards. He has only played 6 seasons. This season he may get into the Super Bowl ring right on the dot. He also has pro bowl honors in 2002, 2004, 2005 and 2006.

So in conclusion, I personally don’t think Jim Brown is the greatest running back in NFL history. I think it has to be said that Smith played longer than anyone on this unstoppable list. He has the ring and the most rushing yards in his career. If you look on paper, he played a longer season than Brown and against much better competition than Jim Brown, and he had high numbers when he played on one of the worst football teams at the time. The reason Tomlinson isn’t number 1 is because he’s only played six years; however, if this pace that he’s at is maintained, knowing that Tomlinson will maintain it, then by the end of his career in six or seven years, he most likely will be. he the greatest running back of all time, but for now he is not.