most rushing yards from 1989 to 1998 on the detroit lions

Between the 1989 and 1998 seasons, Barry Sanders had the most rushing yards for the Lions, with 15,269 yards.

Interpreted as:

most rushing yards by a player from 1989 to 1998 on the detroit lions

	NAME	RUSH YDS	GP	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD	REC YDS	REC	AVG	REC YDS/G	REC TD
1	Barry Sanders B. Sanders	15,269	153	3,062	5.0	99.8	99	2,921	352	8.3	19.1	10
2	Rodney Peete R. Peete	884	47	171	5.2	18.8	13	0	0		0.0	0
3	Derrick Moore D. Moore	457	29	115	4.0	15.8	7	179	22	8.1	6.2	1
4	Ron Rivers R. Rivers	427	62	85	5.0	6.9	3	91	6	15.2	1.5	0
5	Bob Gagliano B. Gagliano	337	20	87	3.9	16.9	4	0	0		0.0	0
6	Scott Mitchell S. Mitchell	324	57	132	2.5	5.7	10	0	0		0.0	0
7	Charlie Batch C. Batch	229	12	41	5.6	19.1	1	0	0		0.0	0
8	Andre Ware A. Ware	217	14	38	5.7	15.5	0	0	0		0.0	0
9	Eric Lynch E. Lynch	209	37	56	3.7	5.6	2	100	15	6.7	2.7	0
10	Brett Perriman B. Perriman	173	94	23	7.5	1.8	0	5,244	428	12.3	55.8	25
11	Tommy Vardell T. Vardell	159	30	50	3.2	5.3	12	361	30	12.0	12.0	1
12	Johnnie Morton J. Morton	112	78	16	7.0	1.4	0	3,428	251	13.7	43.9	23
13	Tony Paige T. Paige	105	16	30	3.5	6.6	0	27	2	13.5	1.7	0
14	Erik Kramer E. Kramer	65	25	57	1.1	2.6	1	0	0		0.0	0
15	Carl Painter C. Painter	64	15	15	4.3	4.3	0	41	3	13.7	2.7	0
16	Don Overton D. Overton	59	15	14	4.2	3.9	0	38	4	9.5	2.5	0
17	Cedric Jackson C. Jackson	55	8	17	3.2	6.9	0	-2	1	-2.0	-0.3	0
18	James Wilder J. Wilder	51	15	11	4.6	3.4	0	8	1	8.0	0.5	1
19	D.J. Dozier	48	6	9	5.3	8.0	0	3	1	3.0	0.5	0
20	Jim Arnold J. Arnold	42	80	2	21.0	0.5	0	0	0		0.0	0
21	Don Majkowski D. Majkowski	39	10	23	1.7	3.9	0	0	0		0.0	0
22	Richard Johnson R. Johnson	38	32	12	3.2	1.2	0	1,818	134	13.6	56.8	14
23	Germane Crowell G. Crowell	35	14	1	35.0	2.5	0	464	25	18.6	33.1	3
24	Dave Krieg D. Krieg	35	14	23	1.5	2.5	0	0	0		0.0	0
25	Mel Gray M. Gray	33	84	5	6.6	0.4	0	89	5	17.8	1.1	0

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