most rushing yards by a rookie in a season bears

Jordan Howard has the most rushing yards by a rookie for the Bears, with 1,313 yards in 2016.

	NAME	RUSH YDS	SEASON	TM	GP	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD	REC YDS	REC	TRG	AVG	REC YDS/G	REC TD
1	Jordan Howard J. Howard	1,313	2016	CHI	15	252	5.2	87.5	6	298	29	50	10.3	19.9	1
2	Matt Forte M. Forte	1,238	2008	CHI	16	316	3.9	77.4	8	477	63	76	7.6	29.8	4
3	Anthony Thomas A. Thomas	1,183	2001	CHI	14	278	4.3	84.5	7	178	22	30	8.1	12.7	0
4	Rashaan Salaam R. Salaam	1,074	1995	CHI	16	296	3.6	67.1	10	56	7		8.0	3.5	0
5	Beattie Feathers B. Feathers	1,004	1934	CHB	11	119	8.4	91.3	8	174	6		29.0	15.8	1
6	David Montgomery D. Montgomery	889	2019	CHI	16	242	3.7	55.6	6	185	25	35	7.4	11.6	1
7	Gale Sayers G. Sayers	867	1965	CHI	14	166	5.2	61.9	14	507	29		17.5	36.2	6
8	Kyle Monangai K. Monangai	783	2025	CHI	17	169	4.6	46.1	5	164	18	30	9.1	9.6	0
9	Bill Osmanski B. Osmanski	699	1939	CHB	10	121	5.8	69.9	7	65	3		21.7	6.5	1
10	Walter Payton W. Payton	679	1975	CHI	13	196	3.5	52.2	7	213	33		6.5	16.4	0
11	Rick Casares R. Casares	672	1955	CHB	12	125	5.4	56.0	4	136	16		8.5	11.3	1
12	John Dottley J. Dottley	670	1951	CHB	12	127	5.3	55.8	3	225	14		16.1	18.8	1
13	Bobby Watkins B. Watkins	553	1955	CHB	12	110	5.0	46.1	8	79	6		13.2	6.6	0
14	Willie Galimore W. Galimore	538	1957	CHB	12	127	4.2	44.8	5	201	15		13.4	16.8	2
15	Jeremy Langford J. Langford	537	2015	CHI	16	148	3.6	33.6	6	279	22	42	12.7	17.4	1
16	Curtis Enis C. Enis	497	1998	CHI	9	133	3.7	55.2	0	20	6		3.3	2.2	0
17	Caleb Williams C. Williams	489	2024	CHI	17	81	6.0	28.8	0	0	0	0		0.0	0
18	Ken Grandberry K. Grandberry	475	1974	CHI	14	144	3.3	33.9	2	212	30		7.1	15.1	0
19	Raymont Harris R. Harris	464	1994	CHI	16	123	3.8	29.0	1	236	39		6.1	14.8	0
20	Bob Margarita B. Margarita	463	1944	CHB	10	88	5.3	46.3	4	130	15		8.7	13.0	0
21	Roland Harper R. Harper	453	1975	CHI	13	100	4.5	34.8	1	191	27		7.1	14.7	0
22	Khalil Herbert K. Herbert	433	2021	CHI	17	103	4.2	25.5	2	96	14	16	6.9	5.6	0
23	Justin Fields J. Fields	420	2021	CHI	12	72	5.8	35.0	2	0	0	0		0.0	0
24	Norm Standlee N. Standlee	414	1941	CHB	10	81	5.1	41.4	5	-3	2		-1.5	-0.3	0
25	Bobby Douglass B. Douglass	408	1969	CHI	11	51	8.0	37.1	2	0	0			0.0	0

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