most yards by a nfl player in first 34 games

Gale Sayers gained the most all-purpose yards in his first 34 games, with 5,369 yards.

	NAME	YDS	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	5,369	34		38	2,431	71.5	25	1,010	29.7	8	1,646	48.4	4	282	8.3	1
2	Danny Amendola D. Amendola	5,064	34		5	81	2.4	0	1,356	39.9	5	2,760	81.2	0	867	25.5	0
3	James Brooks J. Brooks	4,796	34		17	1,349	39.7	12	588	17.3	5	2,370	69.7	0	489	14.4	0
4	Abner Haynes A. Haynes	4,782	34		37	2,163	63.6	25	1,467	43.1	11	731	21.5	1	421	12.4	0
5	Michael L. Lewis M. L. Lewis	4,762	34		4	17	0.5	0	366	10.8	1	3,457	101.7	2	922	27.1	1
6	Terry Metcalf T. Metcalf	4,716	34		17	1,866	54.9	13	973	28.6	1	1,342	39.5	2	535	15.7	1
7	Mack Herron M. Herron	4,677	34		16	1,287	37.9	9	781	23.0	6	1,721	50.6	1	888	26.1	0
8	Floyd Little F. Little	4,672	34		14	1,776	52.2	10	560	16.5	2	1,697	49.9	0	639	18.8	2
9	Bruce Harper B. Harper	4,670	34		6	590	17.4	2	434	12.8	3	2,775	81.6	0	871	25.6	1
10	Edgerrin James E. James	4,646	34		35	3,425	100.7	26	1,221	35.9	9	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0
11	Maurice Jones-Drew M. Jones-Drew	4,611	34		28	1,770	52.1	23	972	28.6	3	1,828	53.8	2	41	1.2	0
12	Eric Dickerson E. Dickerson	4,591	34		34	4,028	118.5	32	563	16.6	2	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0
13	Wes Welker W. Welker	4,559	34		1	5	0.1	0	601	17.7	0	3,011	88.6	1	942	27.7	0
14	Tim Dwight T. Dwight	4,548	34		16	86	2.5	1	1,036	30.5	11	2,691	79.1	2	735	21.6	2
15	Vic Washington V. Washington	4,537	34		17	1,628	47.9	10	870	25.6	5	2,039	60.0	2	0	0.0	0
16	Percy Harvin P. Harvin	4,455	34		16	354	10.4	1	1,827	53.7	11	2,274	66.9	4	0	0.0	0
17	Adrian Peterson A. Peterson	4,438	34		29	3,541	104.1	28	449	13.2	1	448	13.2	0	0	0.0	0
18	Randall Cobb R. Cobb	4,341	34		13	172	5.1	0	1,506	44.3	10	2,027	59.6	1	636	18.7	2
19	Clinton Portis C. Portis	4,320	34		34	3,536	104.0	31	784	23.1	3	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0
20	Billy Sims B. Sims	4,318	34		32	3,073	90.4	27	1,245	36.6	5	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0
21	Chris Johnson C. Johnson	4,317	34		29	3,482	102.4	26	818	24.1	3	17	0.5	0	0	0.0	0
22	MarTay Jenkins M. Jenkins	4,293	34		5	10	0.3	0	772	22.7	3	3,510	103.2	2	1	0.0	0
23	Ezekiel Elliott E. Elliott	4,268	34	125.5	29	3,419	100.6	25	856	25.2	4	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0
24	Steve Smith Sr. S. Smith Sr.	4,259	34		9	38	1.1	0	1,157	34.0	4	2,040	60.0	2	1,024	30.1	3
25	Arian Foster A. Foster	4,237	34		32	2,939	86.4	28	1,298	38.2	4	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0

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