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It only took one run for Chiefs running back Kareem Hunt to capture the NFL rushing title.
NFL final stat leaders: Elliott wins rushing title, Mahomes throws 50 TDs. The 2018 NFL regular season came to a close on Sunday, making official the league leaders in a number of notable stat. Which player won the 2018 NFL rushing title with 1,434 yards? Ezekiel Elliott.
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Just one 35-yard touchdown run against the Denver Broncos in Week 17, and the rookie eclipsed Rams RB Todd Gurley for the most yards rushing in the NFL in 2017.
Hunt is the first Chief to capture the rushing title since Priest Holmes in 2001 and is the second Chief to do it since Christian Okoye in 1989.
Hunt finished the season with 1,327 yards rushing and eight touchdowns on 272 carries, good for 4.9 yards per carry. He also added 455 yards receiving and three touchdowns on 53 receptions.
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Hunt’s 1,327 yards rushing were 22 more than Gurley’s and 36 more than Steelers RB Le’Veon Bell’s.
But will those numbers earn Hunt the offensive rookie of the year award? Some think so, while others think that award belongs to Saints RB Alvin Kamara.
Here are Kamara’s 2017 numbers:
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120 carries, 728 yards rushing, eight touchdowns, 6.1 yards per carry
81 receptions, 826 yards receiving, five touchdowns
11 kick returns, 347 kick return yards, one touchdown
Hunt has Kamara beat in yards from scrimmage by 228 yards, while Kamara has two more offensive touchdowns than Hunt.
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Of course, Kamara has a slight statistical edge over Hunt because of his return stats, but this award is offensive rookie of the year, not special teams rookie of the year.
Even without taking into account return yardage, this is still a difficult choice. No matter who wins the award, both certainly deserve it.
Nick Chubb carried a considerable lead in the NFL rushing title race entering Week 17. But a bad day from the Browns offense and a monster effort from Tennessee’s Derrick Henry proved too much.
Henry ran past Chubb for the 2019 rushing title on the season’s final day.
The Browns RB entered the day with 1,453 yards and Henry was a distant third with 1,329. Carolina’s Christian McCaffrey was sandwiched in between with 1,361.
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Chubb sputtered to the finish with just 41 yards on 13 carries, a week after netting just 45 on 15 attempts. Henry posted 211 yards against the Houston Texans to seize the title. He finishes with 1,540 to Chubb’s 1,494. McCaffrey wound up with 1,387 after netting just 26 yards in the Panthers’ blowout loss to New Orleans.
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It would have been the first rushing title for a Browns player since Leroy Kelly in 1968.