The trend of fewer and fewer 1,000-yard running backs continued in 2018, with just nine players hitting that mark. Compare that to a decade prior, it was 16 backs in 2008, and there were 20 such individuals in 1998.
The 20th-leading rusher in ‘98 was Priest Holmes at 1,008 yards with the Baltimore Ravens. Last season, the number nine rusher in the league was Phillip Lindsay at 1,037 yards. Whether or not Lindsay’s name will ever invoke the kind of reactions that Holmes does as a player who is in the Hall of Fame (of players who only had 3.