Rushing for 1,000 yards isn’t the benchmark it used to be. Some backs have been known to knock off a quarter of that in a single game.
Yet while it’s less of a milestone, it’s still a decent indicator for what sort of a season a running back had. Last year the Pac-12 had six backs break 1,000 yards.
Here are last year’s members of the 1K club:
Christian McCaffrey, Stanford, 2,019 yards
Royce Freeman, Oregon, 1,836 yards
Paul Perkins, UCLA, 1,343 yards
Myles Gaskin, Washington, 1,302 yards
Devontae Booker, Utah, 1,261 yards
Demario Richard, Arizona State, 1,050
Of those six, four are back -- McCaffrey, Freeman, Gaskin and Richard.