Random Stat: Jim Harbaugh Has More Career Rushing Yards Than Bo Jackson
I would have never guessed that Harbaugh ran the ball that much in the NFL
Harbaugh also had more rushing TD's & rushing attempts.
And Bo Jackson was never sacked for yardage loss.
I believe sacks count as a net against passing yards in nfl stats. Unlike college where they net against rushing yds.
Harbaugh had two career receptions for negative 8 yards. Now I’m dying to see how those two plays went down.
Nothing exotic (unfortunately).
They were both completions to himself, catching a batted ball. One in 1993 on Thanksgiving vs Detroit (gain of 1 yard), one in a 1995 game against the Jets (loss of 9 yards).
(source: pro football reference)
This is highly disappointing. I was hoping for a couple of Philly Specials that he audibled at the line of scrimmage that went horribly wrong.
Didn’t he sneak in on special teams and make a tackle as a rookie QB and cause Ditka to have a hemorrhage?
I remember a Monday Night Football stat where he was the 1st QB from Michigan to start in like forever. And it began a series of QBs from Michigan with success in the league.
I made a Diary a couple years ago on this exact topic. Harbaugh was indeed the first Michigan QB to start in the NFL in forever…but Bo didn’t produce another pro QB. It was ANOTHER decade before the Moeller and Carr QBs really re-established that pipeline. Harbaugh was a blip.
Did you know that Lloyd Carr sent every single starting QB to the NFL? Every single one.
Elvis Grbac got his first college start 3 years after Harbaugh graduated.
Thank you. Forgot the timeline. So probably closer to 6 years between the two eras.
It’s been really telling, that when you go back to the Bo era and start digging into statistics, career arcs, and narrative vs. reality…a lot of the shine wears off. To the extent that there’s any shine left to wear off…
It actually casts a far better light on Moeller. He started something special and doesn’t get enough credit for it IMO
Aside from the bad night he had, Moeller's shine is tarnished by the collapse against FSU. Win that game, and he's still a shining star in Ann Arbor...
I am still heartbroken that All-American Jim Everett was not able to start. Michigan wasn’t deep on the o-line that year.
Steve Everitt, I believe? Agree though - that was a a rough break.
Moeller was not afraid to use his offensive playmakers.
He was a great coach and its a bummer to think what might have been had he had more time at Michigan.
“He was a great coach and its a bummer to think what might have been had he had more time at Michigan.”
Or more time with the Detroit NFL team. Not sure one luck-ass FG by that Sparty-Bear should have meant ripping the whole thing apart.
5 yards/carry. Not bad.
Very close to Bo - that shocked me. I initially thought Jim got more yards based more games played & more attempts. Weird!
I'd have thought the same.
But I reconsidered: rushing gave Harbaugh the opportunity to crash into other people. Which does seem to fit his personality.
It all started at 9 years old.... with BIG Ralph of the Ann Arbor Junior Packers....
4 seasons vs. 14 seasons but yes.
Look at the attempts. Much closer than the seasons makes it sound.
What happened to Bo's career in the NFL for this stat to happen?
Are you serious? An injury that robbed two sports of Jackson's greatness.
Yep. Bo knows........!!!!
My favorite comment is when the horse walks by.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sz6xhPkGJ4
Arguably the best athlete in my lifetime, until that football injury. DAMN!!!
At one time, he also consider a track & field career.
Almost seems that any sport he tried, he would be successful.
I heard that MJ said his hardest opponent ever in 1-on-1 was Bo Jackson, wouldn’t be surprised if true….
Even with the small sample size we had the honor of watching... Bo was the greatest athlete that I’ve ever seen. An All-Star/All-Pro in two sports while splitting time between them, he was just starting to hit his prime. I never would have thought that tackle at the LA Coliseum would have been his last game in the NFL.
Dude can accurately shoot a bow & arrow with his feet!
His leg basically detached at the hip.
It’s interesting that he didn’t want to play football in the NFL. He told Tampa Bay to FO. The Raiders then made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. They paid him a lot of money and he only had to play half a season after MLB ended.
Bo was busy kicking ass in Tecmo Bowl
This is why I come to MGoBlog.
READY. DOWN. HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT...
i would sometimes leave mid-game for dinner and you could hear the gentle "hut hut hut" in the background.
I once got into a fistfight over this.
Bo had all the tools to be great. Hip issues derailed a once bright career. Interesting tidbit, thanks for sharing!
Think I’m still gonna give it to Bo if I need a first down.
does Brady gave more rushing first downs (than Bo)?
So Jim was obviously a better runner.
Go Blue!
I dunno, better ask Freddie Jackson.
"Bo Jackson, but fast"
Curious how many triples Ryan Day has. Guessing nowhere near Bo.
Freshman Bo Jackson played against UM in the 1984 Sugar Bowl. I watched the game from the end zone of the Superdome.
It was a great vantage point to watch the option string out the defense. UM safety Evan Cooper was my MVP, making one incredible TD saving tackle after another on the edge.
Bo's football injury deprived us of a GOAT-level all around athlete. That is not Fred Jackson hyperbole. He was that good.
If only Triando Markray had a few more seconds at the end of the game. (One of my earliest Michigan football memories .....)
Far as I can tell, Triando never played another down after cutting inside trying for the TD instead of going OOB and setting up the chip shot FG to win the game. I mean, he did - but was limited to 9 catches the next season. He never regained Bo's trust...
Bo was the only RB that I saw that approached the same realm as Barry Sanders. Still not the same realm but the closest realm to Barry's that I saw.
There was Barry, then a cliff, then on a ledge someway down off top was Bo, then the rest of cliff, then everyone else. Not sure how to elucidate better there.
If there was an athlete hall-of-fame, Bo is a first-ballot choice, if not on Mount Rushmore.
He's not in the baseball and football HOF because his career wasn't long/good enough, but he honestly would have had a shot at both.
Another thing --- Bo had a flair for seizing the moment. Bozworth is trash-talking him before a big MNF game? Rush for 221 yards while running for 3 TDs, literally going by and through Bozworth. Bo is appearing in the 1989 all-star game and his at-bat coincides with Ronald Reagan showing up in the NBC booth? Upstage the former President, hit a 450+ foot bomb to CF.
ahh! Statistics. They show so much, and can hide so much as well :D
Whether he lowered the boom on a linebacker before roaring past the secondary or throwing some poor runner out from the wall who dared tempt him, his highlights are absurd. He was the best athlete in two professional sports...the hip injury might have kept him out of two Hall of Fames... unlikely, but not impossible.
You saw that short too, huh?
Wasn't this posted like 2 weeks ago? Or was that on Reddit?