Emmitt Smith...Perspective

[Hostile]

In his career at Escambia High School Emmitt Smith rushed for 8804 yards and 106 TDs. I could not find anything on his HS receiving stats.

In his career at the University of Florida he rushed for 3928 yards, 36 TDs, and had 461 yards receiving and another TD.

In his NFL career he rushed for 18,355 yards, 164 TDs, and had 3224 receiving yards, 11 more TDs and 1 passing TD.

In his post season career he added 1586 yards, 19 TDs, 342 receiving yards, and 2 TDs.


This breaks down to 32,673 rushing yards, 4027 receiving yards that we know of, for a grand total of 36,700 yards from scrimmage.

If you multiply that number time 3 you come up with 110,100 feet. Divide that by 5280 and it comes out to just over 20.85 miles from scrimmage.

On top of this he scored 339 TDs that we know of and threw for another one for 340 in his football career.

Just thought it might lend a little perspective to how amazing a player we had.

 

[PoetTree]

Agreed in the biggest of ways...

:starspin

 

[TellerMorrow34]

Still my all time favorite.

 

[AdamJT13]

I've never seen a list, but I'd bet that Emmitt has by far the most combined rushing yards in high school, college and the NFL.

I know that he had more yards than Payton and Sanders in high school (Emmitt is 15th all-time in the nation) and more than either of them in college, as well as more than either of them in the NFL.

By the way, when Emmitt finished his high school career, he was No. 2 all-time in the nation. Escambia must have had five Hall of Fame offensive linemen, too.

 

[WV Cowboy]

For those of us that love Emmitt, you are preaching to the choir.

For those that would choose Sanders or Payton, nothing you say will change their mind or convince them otherwise.

 

[Hostile]

I've never seen a list, but I'd bet that Emmitt has by far the most combined rushing yards in high school, college and the NFL.

I know that he had more yards than Payton and Sanders in high school (Emmitt is 15th all-time in the nation) and more than either of them in college, as well as more than either of them in the NFL.

By the way, when Emmitt finished his high school career, he was No. 2 all-time in the nation. Escambia must have had five Hall of Fame offensive linemen, too.

#1 all time is Ken Hall, the "Sugar Land Express."

In his HS career he rushed for 11,232 yards. He was one of Bear Bryant's "Junction Boys," but Bear wanted him to play DB, not RB. he later called it one of the worst mistakes of his career.

Hall had nowhere near the college or pro career that Emmitt did.

Hall averaged 32.9 points per game in his HS career. He rushed for over 3000 yards his sophomore and junior years and over 4000 his senior year.

I don't care what level of play you are at, Ken Hall was a stud.

 

[Lonestar94]

More than 20 miles of pure hell. Gotta love it.

 

[zack]

In his career at Escambia High School Emmitt Smith rushed for 8804 yards and 106 TDs. I could not find anything on his HS receiving stats.

In his career at the University of Florida he rushed for 3928 yards, 36 TDs, and had 461 yards receiving and another TD.

In his NFL career he rushed for 18,355 yards, 164 TDs, and had 3224 receiving yards, 11 more TDs and 1 passing TD.

In his post season career he added 1586 yards, 19 TDs, 342 receiving yards, and 2 TDs.


This breaks down to 32,673 rushing yards, 4027 receiving yards that we know of, for a grand total of 36,700 yards from scrimmage.

If you multiply that number time 3 you come up with 110,100 feet. Divide that by 5280 and it comes out to just over 20.85 miles from scrimmage.

On top of this he scored 339 TDs that we know of and threw for another one for 340 in his football career.

Just thought it might lend a little perspective to how amazing a player we had.

Love Emmitt! His record will never be broken. But I love how people out there try and minimize him as a RB. There was a recent article on PFT about Maurice Jones Drew. The idiot comments from the general public bother me. But haters will be haters. Even if this wasn't a passing league as it is today, I still think that it would be a challenge for anyone to break that record.

 

[MapleLeaf]

In his career at Escambia High School Emmitt Smith rushed for 8804 yards and 106 TDs. I could not find anything on his HS receiving stats.

In his career at the University of Florida he rushed for 3928 yards, 36 TDs, and had 461 yards receiving and another TD.

In his NFL career he rushed for 18,355 yards, 164 TDs, and had 3224 receiving yards, 11 more TDs and 1 passing TD.

In his post season career he added 1586 yards, 19 TDs, 342 receiving yards, and 2 TDs.


This breaks down to 32,673 rushing yards, 4027 receiving yards that we know of, for a grand total of 36,700 yards from scrimmage.

If you multiply that number time 3 you come up with 110,100 feet. Divide that by 5280 and it comes out to just over 20.85 miles from scrimmage.

On top of this he scored 339 TDs that we know of and threw for another one for 340 in his football career.

Just thought it might lend a little perspective to how amazing a player we had.

...and amazing at the same time is the amount of punishment his body took just to log those miles.

An amazing career.

 

[StevenOtero]

In before Barry's lovers.

Edit: That sounds so wrong

 

[jazzcat22]

There are many players that standout to each person as the best of all time. and some for their own sane or insane reasons, cannot and will not be convinced otherwise. Rather they hate the team, so they hate the player. They try to rationalize the reasons, in their own twisted ways. Like statisitcs can be manipulated to get you agenda to sway people.

How many times have you heard, oh if Barry had that OL, or emmitt would not have had the same numbers if in Detroit. Well it's hard to convince those otherwise to you way of reasoning.

But to me there are 2 players that standout as the best ever at their positions.
You can debate QB's, as to why, because stats do not always tell the story. Style of offense and defense, you play from behind, or ahead all the time. Which in its own self can affect the stats.

But pure and simple, to me...

Best RB ever is Emmitt
Best WR ever is Jerry Rice
Best QB ever....I don't really know

 

[DFWJC]

I think Emmit's combined NFL reg season and college rushing totals still lead everyone; though Dorsett and Tomlinson make up some ground when college is included, it's not enough to catch ES22. Sanders only started one year in college, so he actually loses some ground.

 

[Risen Star]

I've never seen a list, but I'd bet that Emmitt has by far the most combined rushing yards in high school, college and the NFL.

I know that he had more yards than Payton and Sanders in high school (Emmitt is 15th all-time in the nation) and more than either of them in college, as well as more than either of them in the NFL.

By the way, when Emmitt finished his high school career, he was No. 2 all-time in the nation. Escambia must have had five Hall of Fame offensive linemen, too.

That was one of my main defenses for the it's all the offensive line crowd. Oh yeah? Then why did the guy do the very same thing in high school and college? Or is he just that good?

 

[sonnyboy]

In his career at Escambia High School Emmitt Smith rushed for 8804 yards and 106 TDs. I could not find anything on his HS receiving stats.

In his career at the University of Florida he rushed for 3928 yards, 36 TDs, and had 461 yards receiving and another TD.

In his NFL career he rushed for 18,355 yards, 164 TDs, and had 3224 receiving yards, 11 more TDs and 1 passing TD.

In his post season career he added 1586 yards, 19 TDs, 342 receiving yards, and 2 TDs.


This breaks down to 32,673 rushing yards, 4027 receiving yards that we know of, for a grand total of 36,700 yards from scrimmage.

If you multiply that number time 3 you come up with 110,100 feet. Divide that by 5280 and it comes out to just over 20.85 miles from scrimmage.

On top of this he scored 339 TDs that we know of and threw for another one for 340 in his football career.

Just thought it might lend a little perspective to how amazing a player we had.

That's what's always stuck out to me. Believe it was in 15 post season games. He basically played an additional season of post season games.

I've always believed Jerry Rice was the best non QB player in history. Not surprised at all when he was #1 in that recent top 100 all-time players list that ESPN did. I think it was ESPN. Either way, I was surprised how many disagreed with his selection.

Point I'm making here is that I've always viewed Emmitt in a similar light. You take his regular season accomplishments plus the post season and then factor in his team's success.........he's the probably the most accomplished football player in history.

 

[AdamJT13]

I think Emmit's combined NFL reg season and college rushing totals still lead everyone; though Dorsett and Tomlinson make up some ground when college is included, it's not enough to catch ES22. Sanders only started one year in college, so he actually loses some ground.

Emmitt has 1,629 more NFL yards than Walter Payton, 3,086 more than Barry Sanders and 4,254 more than Curtis Martin, who is No. 4 in NFL history.

Emmitt's 3,928 college yards are 2,469 less than Ron Dayne's NCAA Division I-A record, 2,631 less than the Division I-AA record, 4,034 less than the Division II record and 4,146 less than the Division III record.

That means you could add the yards by any Division I or I-AA running back in history to Barry Sanders' NFL yards, and it would still be short of Emmitt's combined NFL and college totals. Or you could add the yards for any NCAA running back at any level to Curtis Martin's fourth-all-time NFL total, and you'd still be short of Emmitt's combined total.

 

[Silver N Blue]

In his career at Escambia High School Emmitt Smith rushed for 8804 yards and 106 TDs. I could not find anything on his HS receiving stats.

In his career at the University of Florida he rushed for 3928 yards, 36 TDs, and had 461 yards receiving and another TD.

In his NFL career he rushed for 18,355 yards, 164 TDs, and had 3224 receiving yards, 11 more TDs and 1 passing TD.

In his post season career he added 1586 yards, 19 TDs, 342 receiving yards, and 2 TDs.


This breaks down to 32,673 rushing yards, 4027 receiving yards that we know of, for a grand total of 36,700 yards from scrimmage.

If you multiply that number time 3 you come up with 110,100 feet. Divide that by 5280 and it comes out to just over 20.85 miles from scrimmage.

On top of this he scored 339 TDs that we know of and threw for another one for 340 in his football career.

Just thought it might lend a little perspective to how amazing a player we had.

You forgot to add Dallas's offensive line was blocking for him the whole time

 

[DFWJC]

I guess Emmitt myust have been holding some Florida rushing record, maybe single season? When you're as good as Emmitt was you still have records standing this long.

Anyway, whatever it was, Fred Taylor's son Kelvin broke it this year.
Taylor also now hold the all-time rushing title in Florida at over 10,000 yards (wow). Kelvin will also be attending Florida in 2013.

 

[panchucko]

Yup Emmitt was a special player.

 

[proline]

And still Goose ranks him 6th all time behind Sanders, Brown, Sayers, Simpson, and Payton.

It boggles the mind how someone can look at Smith's career and see 6th.

 

[jobberone]

I can understand why Brown and Sayers are ranked ahead of Smith although I don't feel particularly strong about them. But people should go back and watch the early Emmitt run. Nobody has ever had his combination of balance, vision, strength, and durability. Nobody has ever had his balance.