Whether he breaks his own record or not, Newton’s performance this year makes him overdue for an appreciation. Despite missing one game to COVID-19, Newton has scored 11 times in his first 11 games as a New England Patriot, putting him on pace for, yes, 15 TDs in 15 games. Newton passed Young and matched Graham at the age of 27, in 2016’s opening-night rematch of Super Bowl 50 against the Broncos.Īs young, mobile quarterbacks like Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen and Kyler Murray have entered the league and hit the ground running, Newton’s record of 14 rushing scores in a season looks to have its most serious challenger over the next four weeks: Newton himself. In the Super Bowl era, Steve Young finished with 43. Emmitt Smith posted the first consecutive league-leading 20+ rushing touchdowns seasons in 19–an achievement later matched by Priest Holmes, in 20.The old quarterback record belonged to Otto Graham, the Hall of Famer who threw for 174 TDs and ran for 44 for the Cleveland Browns in the 1940s and ‘50s. Steve Van Buren was the first player to lead the league with consecutive 10+ rushing touchdowns seasons, in 19 he would add a third consecutive in 1949. 40 seasons later, in 1983, John Riggins became the first player to rush for 20 or more touchdowns in a single season. In 1943, while playing for the New York Giants, Bill Paschal became the first NFL player to rush for 10 or more touchdowns in a single season. Marcus Allen is the only player in NFL history to lead the league in rushing touchdowns while playing with 2 different teams in 1982, Allen led the league while playing with the Oakland Raiders, and in 1993, he led the league while playing with the Kansas City Chiefs. Steve Van Buren was the first to lead the league in 3 consecutive seasons, from 1947– 1949, a figure later matched by Jim Brown (1957–1959) and Leroy Kelly ( 1966– 1968). The first sole rushing touchdowns leader in consecutive seasons was Johnny Drake, when he led in 19. Dutch Clark became the first player to lead the league in consecutive seasons ( 19), although in 1937 he co-led the league. Jim Brown holds the record for most league-leading seasons in rushing touchdowns, with 5 ( 1957, 1958, 1959, 1963, and 1965). Prior to Tomlinson's setting of the record, Priest Holmes of the Kansas City Chiefs and Shaun Alexander of the Seattle Seahawks, jointly held the record with 27, reaching that mark in 2003 NFL season and 2005, respectively. Since then, LaDainian Tomlinson has set the record for rushing touchdowns in a season, when he led the league in 2006, with 28 rushing touchdowns, while playing with the San Diego Chargers. Record-keeping for rushing touchdowns began in 1932, when Bronko Nagurski of the Chicago Bears led the league with 4 rushing touchdowns. Although rushing has both an offensive and a defensive meaning, this list charts offensive rushing touchdowns, usually scored by a running back, either a halfback or a fullback.
This is a season-by-season list of National Football League players who have led the regular season in rushing touchdowns.
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