OT - Your Top 5 All-Time Best NFL Running Backs

Submitted by xtramelanin on

Mates,

I am having a discussion with my older sons, and they were asking me who I thought were the top 5 all-time best NFL running backs.  As a Lions fan I will always list Barry Sanders as #1, but then who do you list after that?   Walter Payton was great.  Jim Brown in his day, but I don't think he'd be much of a stand out today.   Marshall Faulk?  Eric Dickerson?   I'm not an Emmitt Smith fan since he got to play with one of the all-time great offensive units every assembled (Jerry Rice, you did too, you sore loser), but he was certainly a very good pro back.  Who else should be considered?  

So, who do you have in your top 5?

1.  Barry

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I hope you are with family and friends having a very fun but sane holiday.  

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(yes it's OT, but at least it's football related....)

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JFW

July 4th, 2016 at 9:57 AM ^

I like the topic!

My kids are blown away by Barry.

1) Barry Sanders
2) Walter Payton
3) Marshall Faulk
4) Emmit Smith
5) Earl Campbell



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Harlans Haze

July 4th, 2016 at 1:13 PM ^

Growing up in Ohio, I was never a Lions fan. But, I was a huge Billy Sims fan. For the older Lions fans out there, would you have taken the 10 years that  you got with Sanders or the 10 years that you might have gotten with Sims (you know, barring his injury)?

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