most all purpose yards in bears history by season

Gale Sayers has gained the most all-purpose yards for the Bears in a season, with 2,440 yards in 1966.

Interpreted as:

most all purpose yards by a player in bears history by season

	NAME	YDS	SEASON	TM	GP	YDS/G	TD	RUSH YDS	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD	REC YDS	REC YDS/G	REC TD	KR YDS	KR YDS/G	KR TD	PR YDS	PR YDS/G	PR TD
1	Gale Sayers G. Sayers	2,440	1966	CHI	14	174.3	12	1,231	87.9	8	447	31.9	2	718	51.3	2	44	3.1	0
2	Gale Sayers G. Sayers	2,272	1965	CHI	14	162.3	22	867	61.9	14	507	36.2	6	660	47.1	1	238	17.0	1
3	Walter Payton W. Payton	2,216	1977	CHI	14	158.3	16	1,852	132.3	14	269	19.2	2	95	6.8	0	0	0.0	0
4	Walter Payton W. Payton	2,052	1984	CHI	16	128.3	11	1,684	105.3	11	368	23.0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0
5	Walter Payton W. Payton	2,034	1985	CHI	16	127.1	11	1,551	96.9	9	483	30.2	2	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0
6	Walter Payton W. Payton	2,028	1983	CHI	16	126.8	8	1,421	88.8	6	607	37.9	2	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0
7	Glyn Milburn G. Milburn	2,025	1999	CHI	16	126.6	1	102	6.4	1	151	9.4	0	1,426	89.1	0	346	21.6	0
8	Matt Forte M. Forte	1,933	2013	CHI	16	120.8	12	1,339	83.7	9	594	37.1	3	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0
9	Walter Payton W. Payton	1,923	1979	CHI	16	120.2	16	1,610	100.6	14	313	19.6	2	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0
10	Glyn Milburn G. Milburn	1,886	1998	CHI	16	117.9	3	8	0.5	0	37	2.3	0	1,550	96.9	2	291	18.2	1
11	Walter Payton W. Payton	1,875	1978	CHI	16	117.2	11	1,395	87.2	11	480	30.0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0
12	Devin Hester D. Hester	1,874	2007	CHI	16	117.1	8	-10	-0.6	0	299	18.7	2	934	58.4	2	651	40.7	4
13	Matt Forte M. Forte	1,846	2014	CHI	16	115.4	10	1,038	64.9	6	808	50.5	4	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0
14	Walter Payton W. Payton	1,827	1980	CHI	16	114.2	7	1,460	91.3	6	367	22.9	1	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0
15	Glyn Milburn G. Milburn	1,782	2000	CHI	16	111.4	0	6	0.4	0	8	0.5	0	1,468	91.8	0	300	18.8	0
16	Matt Forte M. Forte	1,715	2008	CHI	16	107.2	12	1,238	77.4	8	477	29.8	4	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0
17	Walter Payton W. Payton	1,715	1986	CHI	16	107.2	11	1,333	83.3	8	382	23.9	3	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0
18	Neal Anderson N. Anderson	1,709	1989	CHI	16	106.8	15	1,275	79.7	11	434	27.1	4	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0
19	Devin Hester D. Hester	1,692	2013	CHI	16	105.8	1	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	1,436	89.8	0	256	16.0	1
20	Gale Sayers G. Sayers	1,689	1967	CHI	13	129.9	12	880	67.7	7	126	9.7	1	603	46.4	3	80	6.2	1
21	Matt Forte M. Forte	1,616	2010	CHI	16	101.0	9	1,069	66.8	6	547	34.2	3	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0
22	Jordan Howard J. Howard	1,611	2016	CHI	15	107.4	7	1,313	87.5	6	298	19.9	1	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0
23	Harry Clarke H. Clarke	1,607	1943	CHB	10		10	556	55.6	2	535	53.5	7	326	32.6	0	158	15.8	0
24	Devin Hester D. Hester	1,603	2008	CHI	15	106.9	3	61	4.1	0	665	44.3	3	679	45.3	0	198	13.2	0
25	Walter Payton W. Payton	1,601	1981	CHI	16	100.1	8	1,222	76.4	6	379	23.7	2	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0

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