Entering the 2023 NFL season, the Buffalo Bills hadn’t had a 1,000-yard rusher since the 2017 campaign. That was the first year of head coach Sean McDermott’s tenure, and it was the final year where LeSean McCoy eclipsed the 1,000-yard mark in a season, as he rushed for 1,138 yards and six touchdowns on his 287 carries.
That streak of five consecutive seasons without a 1,000-yard rusher is actually the second-longest such streak in franchise history. After Cookie Gilchrist ran for 1,096 yards in 1962, no Bills player surpassed that barrier until O.J. Simpson ran for 1,251 yards in 1972.