Greatest NFL Running Backs of All Time

Submitted by baker on Fri, 02/25/2005 - 06:57
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  1. Jim Brown
  2. Barry Sanders
  3. Walter Payton
  4. Larry Csonka
  5. Gale Sayers
  6. Emmitt Smith
  7. Curtis Martin
  8. Eric Dickerson
  9. Marcus Allen
  10. Jim Thorpe
  11. Marshall Faulk
  12. Edgerrin James
  13. Terrell Davis
  14. Jerome Bettis
  15. O.J. Simpson
  16. Tony Dorsett
  17. Franco Harris
  18. Frank Gifford
  19. Tiki Barber
  20. LaDainian Tomlinson
  21. Priest Holmes
  22. Jamal Lewis
  23. Joe Perry
  24. Jim Taylor
  25. Charley Trippi
  26. Doak Walker
  27. John Riggins
  28. Marion Motley
  29. Hugh McElhenny
  30. Lenny Moore
  31. Ollie Matson
  32. Leroy Kelly
  33. Earl Campbell
  34. Paul Hornung
  35. John Henry Johnson
  36. Cliff Battles
  37. Tony Canadeo
  38. Bill Dudley
  39. Harold (Red) Grange
  40. Joe Guyon
  41. Clarke Hinkle
score0907/26/2009

WHAT!!! Are you crazy?!?! Earl Campbell -- The Tyler Rose -- is definitely (and without the slightest doubt) NOT number 33. He is at least number 4. And in my opinion, with all due respect to Payton and Brown, is number 1. The greatest of all time...Earl Campbell. just look at the youtube videos you neophyte. My God! How dare you advance the idea that Campbell isn't among the top 5. And again, in my opinion, given all factors, he is number 1.

score0907/26/2009

One other thing....looking at your list, it is as if you rely solely upon statistics. Stats don't make a winner. Stats have little to do with greatness, that is true. It is Emmit running the Cowboys past Giants in playoffs w/ separated shoulder or OJ in the snow at Ralph Wilson stadium. Campbell was astounding, mesmerizing, incredibly powerfull and strong yet lithe and agile. I've never seen anything like him. As to your list, I am puking looking at the names listed before him. And I'm a lifelong New York City area guy. AS A NEW YORKER LOVE TO SEE TIKI AND CURTIS BUT NO WAY IN HELL THAT EITHER TIKI OR CURTIS WILL EVER BE REMEMBERED THE WAY CAMPBELL OUGHT BE REMEMBERED IN TERMS OF WHOSE THE GREATEST. No way, no how. Campbell, number 1!

Lassic09/15/2009

No Thurman Thomas?

...seriously?