most all purpose yards in a career not including kick returns

Emmitt Smith has the most career all-purpose yards with exactly 0 kickoff returns, with 21,564 yards.

Interpreted as:

most all purpose yards in a career not including kick returns by a player

	NAME	YDS	KR	GP	KR YDS	KR YDS/G	KR TD	PR	PR YDS	PR AVG	PR YDS/G	PR TD
1	Emmitt Smith E. Smith	21,564	0	226	0	0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
2	Frank Gore F. Gore	19,992	0	241	0	0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
3	LaDainian Tomlinson L. Tomlinson	18,456	0	170	0	0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
4	Marcus Allen M. Allen	17,648	0	222	0	0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
5	Larry Fitzgerald L. Fitzgerald	17,560	0	263	0	0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
6	Curtis Martin C. Martin	17,421	0	168	0	0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
7	Thurman Thomas T. Thomas	16,532	0	182	0	0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
8	Tony Dorsett T. Dorsett	16,326	0	173	0	0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
9	Edgerrin James E. James	15,610	0	148	0	0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
10	Eric Dickerson E. Dickerson	15,411	0	146	0	0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
11	Isaac Bruce I. Bruce	15,399	0	223	0	0.0	0	0	52		0.2	0
12	Tony Gonzalez T. Gonzalez	15,141	0	270	0	0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
13	Jerome Bettis J. Bettis	15,113	0	192	0	0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
14	LeSean McCoy L. McCoy	15,001	0	170	0	0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
15	Ricky Watters R. Watters	14,891	0	144	0	0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
16	Derrick Henry D. Henry	14,809	0	153	0	0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
17	Matt Forte M. Forte	14,468	0	146	0	0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
18	Reggie Wayne R. Wayne	14,345	0	211	0	0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
19	Andre Johnson A. Johnson	14,239	0	193	0	0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
20	Anquan Boldin A. Boldin	14,138	0	202	0	0.0	0	20	130	6.5	0.6	0
21	Fred Taylor F. Taylor	14,087	0	153	0	0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
22	Julio Jones J. Jones	13,884	0	166	0	0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
23	Andre Reed A. Reed	13,712	0	234	0	0.0	0	5	12	2.4	0.1	0
24	Torry Holt T. Holt	13,456	0	173	0	0.0	0	3	15	5.0	0.1	0
25	John Riggins J. Riggins	13,435	0	175	0	0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0

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