Barry Sanders rushed for the most yards in 1990, with 1,304 yards.

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Data note: Rushing Yards: player season data complete from 1932

	NAME	RUSH YDS	SEASON	TM	GP	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD	REC YDS	REC	AVG	REC YDS/G	REC TD
1	Barry Sanders B. Sanders	1,304	1990	DET	16	255	5.1	81.5	13	480	36	13.3	30.0	3
2	Thurman Thomas T. Thomas	1,297	1990	BUF	16	271	4.8	81.1	11	532	49	10.9	33.3	2
3	Marion Butts M. Butts	1,225	1990	SD	14	265	4.6	87.5	8	117	16	7.3	8.4	0
4	Earnest Byner E. Byner	1,219	1990	WAS	16	297	4.1	76.2	6	279	31	9.0	17.4	1
5	Bobby Humphrey B. Humphrey	1,202	1990	DEN	15	288	4.2	80.1	7	152	24	6.3	10.1	0
6	Neal Anderson N. Anderson	1,078	1990	CHI	15	260	4.1	71.9	10	484	42	11.5	32.3	3
7	Barry Word B. Word	1,015	1990	KC	16	204	5.0	63.4	4	28	4	7.0	1.8	0
8	James Brooks J. Brooks	1,004	1990	CIN	16	195	5.1	62.8	5	269	26	10.3	16.8	4
9	Randall Cunningham R. Cunningham	942	1990	PHI	16	118	8.0	58.9	5	0	0		0.0	0
10	Emmitt Smith E. Smith	937	1990	DAL	16	241	3.9	58.6	11	228	24	9.5	14.3	0
11	Johnny Johnson J. Johnson	926	1990	PHX	14	234	4.0	66.1	5	241	25	9.6	17.2	0
12	Derrick Fenner D. Fenner	859	1990	SEA	16	215	4.0	53.7	14	143	17	8.4	8.9	1
13	Sammie Smith S. Smith	831	1990	MIA	16	226	3.7	51.9	8	134	11	12.2	8.4	1
14	Cleveland Gary C. Gary	808	1990	RAM	15	204	4.0	53.9	14	150	30	5.0	10.0	1
15	John Stephens J. Stephens	808	1990	NE	16	212	3.8	50.5	2	196	28	7.0	12.3	1
16	Christian Okoye C. Okoye	805	1990	KC	14	245	3.3	57.5	7	23	4	5.8	1.6	0
17	Ottis Anderson O. Anderson	784	1990	NYG	16	225	3.5	49.0	11	139	18	7.7	8.7	0
18	Merril Hoge M. Hoge	772	1990	PIT	16	203	3.8	48.3	7	342	40	8.6	21.4	3
19	Herschel Walker H. Walker	770	1990	MIN	16	184	4.2	48.1	5	315	35	9.0	19.7	4
20	Mike Rozier M. Rozier	717	1990	TOT	16	163	4.4	44.8	3	105	13	8.1	6.6	0
21	John L. Williams J. L. Williams	714	1990	SEA	16	187	3.8	44.6	3	699	73	9.6	43.7	0
22	Kevin Mack K. Mack	702	1990	CLE	14	158	4.4	50.1	5	360	42	8.6	25.7	2
23	Lorenzo White L. White	702	1990	HOU	16	168	4.2	43.9	8	368	39	9.4	23.0	4
24	Bo Jackson B. Jackson	698	1990	RAI	10	125	5.6	69.8	5	68	6	11.3	6.8	0
25	Heath Sherman H. Sherman	685	1990	PHI	14	164	4.2	48.9	1	167	23	7.3	11.9	3

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Lions	6	2	0	.750
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