john righins most rushing yards in a game

John Riggins rushed for his most yards in a game versus the Patriots on October 15, 1972, with 168 yards.

Interpreted as:

john righins most rushing yards in a regular-season game

	NAME	RUSH YDS	DATE	TM		OPP	ATT	YPC	RUSH TD	REC YDS	REC	AVG	REC TD
1	John Riggins J. Riggins	168	10/15/1972	NYJ	@	NE	32	5.3	1	0	0		0
2	John Riggins J. Riggins	165	10/14/1984	WAS	vs	DAL	32	5.2	0	0	0		0
3	John Riggins J. Riggins	152	12/7/1975	NYJ	@	NE	20	7.6	2	23	2	11.5	0
4	John Riggins J. Riggins	151	12/16/1979	WAS	@	DAL	22	6.9	2	0	0		0
5	John Riggins J. Riggins	145	9/28/1975	NYJ	@	KC	27	5.4	2	28	2	14.0	0
6	John Riggins J. Riggins	140	9/23/1984	WAS	@	NE	33	4.2	1	0	0		0
7	John Riggins J. Riggins	136	9/19/1982	WAS	@	TB	34	4.0	0	15	2	7.5	0
8	John Riggins J. Riggins	132	10/14/1973	NYJ	@	NE	28	4.7	0	0	0		0
9	John Riggins J. Riggins	126	10/11/1981	WAS	@	CHI	23	5.5	2	0	0		0
10	John Riggins J. Riggins	125	9/17/1972	NYJ	@	BUF	26	4.8	1	0	0		0
11	John Riggins J. Riggins	122	12/17/1983	WAS	vs	NYG	30	4.1	1	0	0		0
12	John Riggins J. Riggins	120	10/21/1979	WAS	vs	PHI	19	6.3	0	2	1	2.0	0
13	John Riggins J. Riggins	116	9/15/1974	NYJ	@	KC	22	5.3	0	5	1	5.0	0
14	John Riggins J. Riggins	115	10/9/1983	WAS	@	STL	22	5.2	3	0	0		0
15	John Riggins J. Riggins	115	10/7/1979	WAS	@	PHI	23	5.0	1	9	4	2.3	1
16	John Riggins J. Riggins	114	10/13/1985	WAS	vs	DET	21	5.4	3	8	1	8.0	0
17	John Riggins J. Riggins	114	9/24/1978	WAS	vs	NYJ	21	5.4	0	16	3	5.3	0
18	John Riggins J. Riggins	112	10/27/1985	WAS	@	CLE	30	3.7	1	6	2	3.0	0
19	John Riggins J. Riggins	111	12/9/1984	WAS	@	DAL	24	4.6	1	0	0		0
20	John Riggins J. Riggins	108	9/17/1978	WAS	@	STL	16	6.8	0	13	1	13.0	0
21	John Riggins J. Riggins	108	11/2/1975	NYJ	vs	BUF	24	4.5	0	23	2	11.5	0
22	John Riggins J. Riggins	107	12/15/1974	NYJ	@	BAL	21	5.1	2	0	1	0.0	0
23	John Riggins J. Riggins	105	11/23/1972	NYJ	@	DET	24	4.4	1	12	1	12.0	0
24	John Riggins J. Riggins	104	9/30/1984	WAS	vs	PHI	28	3.7	1	12	2	6.0	0
25	John Riggins J. Riggins	104	12/5/1976	WAS	@	NYJ	19	5.5	1	28	3	9.3	1

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