My top 5
1 Barry Sanders
2 Earl Campbell
3 Walter Payton
4 Jim Brown
5 OJ Simpson
My top 5
1 Barry Sanders
2 Earl Campbell
3 Walter Payton
4 Jim Brown
5 OJ Simpson
I think OJ was a little overatted for mine.Originally Posted by big dick
1 Barry Sanders
2 Jim Brown
3 Walter Payton
4 Emmitt Smith
5 Adrian Peterson
Last edited by Salty_Aus; 11-23-2019 at 03:05 AM.
1. Barry Sanders
2. Gale Sayers
3. Jim Brown
4. Adrian Peterson
5. And the criminally underrated, Curtis Martin
Obviously Sayers is the “Hot take” here because of his length of playing time.
1) Jim Brown
2) Walter Payton
3) Barry Sanders
4) Eric Dickerson
5) Marshawn Lynch
No Walter Payton on your list? That my friend is criminal.
This tank is very underrated
Lynch was a great back but number 5 ? hmm I think you have some homeritis going on there
Can't really argue about your top 4 although any order in the top 5 would be fine by me. It's just a matter of preference although I would rank them exactly in that order.
There are few I'd put before OJ but can't really quibble about that 1 either. He was very good.
Earl Campbell is my all-time favorite runningback & Marshawn Lynch was a poor man's EC & I don't mean that as a slight to ML in any way. Earl Campbell was just that good.
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Running backs are so hard to rate because you just don’t see highlights like the seventies when a 220lb rb was meeting and dragging a 220lb linebacker. Those guys were great, but it’s a bit unfair to the modern backs. In Browns era he was as big as linemen and moving entire piles. He’s kind of like Chamberlain in basketball where he was a freak ahead of his time. Everyone I’d list has been covered. Someone like Adrian Peterson in 1975 would have been astonishing. I tend to think of Payton. Power and speed. Not great lines. Dude was just unreal freak. I have Sanders a little lower than most. OJ a little higher, but the top ones are all covered.
Payton
Brown
OJ
sanders
Peterson
Emmitt
I’m not married to any order.
Best ever Jim Brown. A man among boys.
Best in my lifetime Barry Sanders followed by Walter Payton.
In more recent times AP and Marshall Faulk.
Emmit Smith great bit a bit overrated IMO. He got the record by hanging on a bit too long and has a lower YPC than these other guys. Jim Brown and Barry Sanders are the only 2 ever to average over 5 YPC.
Honorable mention: Eric Dickerson, Joe Perry (played in the 50s for the 49ers, was amazing), LDT, Tony Dorsett
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Prolly, but I watched this man dominate like no other year after year. He's the best I've ever seen and was the best back of his generation, AP included IMO.Lynch was a great back but number 5 ? hmm I think you have some homeritis going on there
1. Walter Payton
2. Jim Brown
3. Emmitt Smith
4. Barry Sanders
5. Marshall Faulk
It's a shame Bo Jackson's career was cut short.
Jackson and Sayers deserve a special “cut short” section.
Agree with 1-4. Emmit Smith should be there instead of OJ.
how old are you guys? How can you put Jim Brown in a top 5 when you've likely never seen him play?
ES ran behind one of the best offensive lines in the history of the nfl
Agree with 1-4. Emmit Smith should be there instead of OJ.
He was a great rb but that line made his life much easier.
I think Sanders would have had closer to 20k career years or something close had he been on the cowboys
Last edited by big dick; 11-24-2019 at 11:11 AM.
post a top 5 or fuck off fancy boy
1. Emmitt Smithpost a top 5 or fuck off fancy boy
2. Tony Dorsett
3. Herschel Walker
4. DeMarco Murray
5. Ezekiel Elliott
I think Dorsett was better than E Smith
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