Zeke rushing yards compared to Emmitt and Dorsett

[SportsGuru80]

And he didn't play in the last game of the 2016 season against Philly. That's 7 total games and still put up those numbers, very impressive.

 

[Thomas82]

If he stays healthy, Zeke will be in the Cowboys' top 10 all-time rushers by the end of the season.

 

[aria]

Fair enough, we simply disagree

For anyone else who might be looking at it like I am:

In the 1977 the regular season was 14 games plus the Cowboys won the super bowl so they played 17 games

In 78, the regular season switched to 16 games and the cowboys made the super bowl again playing 19 games total

So depending upon how you look at it, Dorsett played or had the opportunity to play in 30 or 36 games

For Dickerson, he had 16 regular season games and 2 playoff games in his rookie year of 1983.
In 1984, he had 16 regular season games and 1 playoff game. So 32 games or 35 if playoffs are included.

For Zeke, he played in 16 games his rookie year plus 1 playoff game, then 10 games his second year since he was suspended 6 for a total of 26 or 27 games in his first 2 years

If only regular season games were considered for the comparison, then

Dorsett had 2,332 yards over a possible 30 games
Dickerson had 2771 yards over a possible 32 games
Zeke had 2614 yards over a possible 26 games
Emmitt had 2500 yards over a possible 32 games

Taking the number of games into account makes Zekes numbers more impressive imo

I didn't go so far as to look and see if each RB played in all the regular season games each year which would change how this data could be interpreted

Bottom line is Zeke is clearly in good company and considering the number of games he was able to accumulate his yards, he appears to have surpassed them all.

Any idea of how many times they each carried the ball during that time? He’s still doing very good regardless but average carries per game/season is a stat that people keep ignoring. I’ve look at Zeke’s past two years but wouldn’t even know where to start with the other guys.

For example, in 2016, Lesean McCoy carried the ball 100 less times than Zeke and only ended up having 400 yards less then him for the season. McCoy averaged .3 yards more per carry behind a much worse O line. These stats can be spun several different ways.