how many yards did barry sanders have in his first 43 nfl games

Barry Sanders had 4,015 rushing yards in his first 43 games.

	NAME	DATE	RUSH YDS	TM		OPP	ATT	YPC	RUSH TD	REC YDS	REC	AVG	REC TD
1	Barry Sanders B. Sanders	9/10/1989	71	DET	vs	PHX	9	7.9	1	0	0		0
2	Barry Sanders B. Sanders	9/17/1989	57	DET	@	NYG	12	4.8	1	96	6	16.0	0
3	Barry Sanders B. Sanders	9/24/1989	126	DET	vs	CHI	18	7.0	1	10	1	10.0	0
4	Barry Sanders B. Sanders	10/1/1989	1	DET	vs	PIT	5	0.2	0	11	2	5.5	0
5	Barry Sanders B. Sanders	10/8/1989	99	DET	@	MIN	23	4.3	0	30	2	15.0	0
6	Barry Sanders B. Sanders	10/22/1989	59	DET	vs	MIN	15	3.9	0	9	1	9.0	0
7	Barry Sanders B. Sanders	10/29/1989	184	DET	@	GB	30	6.1	0	0	0		0
8	Barry Sanders B. Sanders	11/5/1989	91	DET	@	HOU	19	4.8	2	-3	1	-3.0	0
9	Barry Sanders B. Sanders	11/12/1989	69	DET	vs	GB	16	4.3	1	20	1	20.0	0
10	Barry Sanders B. Sanders	11/19/1989	114	DET	@	CIN	18	6.3	1	6	1	6.0	0
11	Barry Sanders B. Sanders	11/23/1989	145	DET	vs	CLE	28	5.2	0	44	2	22.0	0
12	Barry Sanders B. Sanders	12/3/1989	72	DET	vs	NO	20	3.6	1	9	2	4.5	0
13	Barry Sanders B. Sanders	12/10/1989	120	DET	@	CHI	26	4.6	2	39	3	13.0	0
14	Barry Sanders B. Sanders	12/17/1989	104	DET	vs	TB	21	5.0	1	8	1	8.0	0
15	Barry Sanders B. Sanders	12/24/1989	158	DET	@	ATL	20	7.9	3	3	1	3.0	0
16	Barry Sanders B. Sanders	9/9/1990	79	DET	vs	TB	14	5.6	1	0	0		0
17	Barry Sanders B. Sanders	9/16/1990	55	DET	vs	ATL	18	3.1	1	0	0		0
18	Barry Sanders B. Sanders	9/23/1990	52	DET	@	TB	15	3.5	0	24	2	12.0	0
19	Barry Sanders B. Sanders	9/30/1990	94	DET	vs	GB	20	4.7	1	11	1	11.0	0
20	Barry Sanders B. Sanders	10/7/1990	82	DET	@	MIN	15	5.5	1	42	3	14.0	1
21	Barry Sanders B. Sanders	10/14/1990	90	DET	@	KC	16	5.6	1	135	5	27.0	1
22	Barry Sanders B. Sanders	10/28/1990	10	DET	@	NO	12	0.8	1	72	5	14.4	0
23	Barry Sanders B. Sanders	11/4/1990	104	DET	vs	WAS	11	9.5	1	0	0		0
24	Barry Sanders B. Sanders	11/11/1990	62	DET	vs	MIN	12	5.2	0	18	3	6.0	0
25	Barry Sanders B. Sanders	11/18/1990	69	DET	@	NYG	11	6.3	0	10	2	5.0	0
	Average		93.4				18.7	5.0	0.9	22.6	2.1	10.6	0.1
	Total		4,015				804	5.0	40	971	92	10.6	4

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Vikings	5	0	1.000
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Sun 11/1	MIN	@	DET	1:00 PM
Sun 11/8	DET	@	MIA	1:00 PM
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Vikings	5	0	0	1.000
Packers	3	2	0	.600
Lions	3	2	0	.600
Bears	3	2	0	.600
NFC South	W	L	T	PCT
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Falcons	2	3	0	.400
Buccaneers	1	4	0	.200
Saints	1	4	0	.200
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