Top 10 Pro Running Backs of All-Time

Here's my vote:

#1 Barry Sanders (1989-1998 Detroit Lions)

#2 Jim Brown (1957-1965 Cleveland Browns)

#3 Franco Harris (1972-1983 Pittsburgh Steelers, 1984 Seattle Seahawks)

#4 Walter Payton (1975-1987 Chicago Bears)

#5 Emmitt Smith (1990-2002 Dallas Cowboys, 2003-2004 Arizona Cardinals)

#6 Marshall Faulk (1994-1998 Indianapolis Colts, 1999-present St. Louis Rams)

#7 Frank Gifford (1952-1960, 1962-1964 New York Giants)

#8 Lenny Moore (1956-1967 Baltimore Colts)

#9 Don Perkins (1961-1968 Dallas Cowboys)

#10 Mike Alstott (1996-present Tampa Bay Buccaneers)

How about some reasons with those picks. You left out some really big names. Dorsett, Dickerson, Campbell

It's very difficult to argue with the top five.
I think 6-10 are very debatable.
Where's Dickerson?
Good topic though, you can turn top-ten anything into a fun discussion.

Samkon Gado;with Ahman Green a close 2nd.

yeah u can't leave out Dickerson, and i'm sure that after i have a coffee and wake up i'll think of some others.
if you wanted to add players STILL playing.. i'd have 2 seperate lists.. 1 retired, and 1 playing.

DiGiTaL

Alstott?
More like the most popular, not the best.

I could think of at least 5 RB's that should have been there instead of Alstott.


Chuck Foreman for one.........I also think Jim Brown should be in the #1 slot.....

No Dickerson and no Campbell? What about Gale Sayers or Chuck Foreman? No way Alstott should be ahead of those guys! I don't even thnk Alstott is top 100!

"Ltrey33" wrote:

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No Dickerson and no Campbell? What about Gale Sayers or Chuck Foreman? No way Alstott should be ahead of those guys! I don't even thnk Alstott is top 100!

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Those are 4 I could think of also Ltrey33..... How about even Curtis Martin?
I think he would and should have even made the list before Alstott would....

Franco Harris,

He barely broke a thousand yards
every year, I think he only broke 1200 once, IMO him and Joe Namath are 2 of the most over rated players in the history of the NFL, Namath even moreso.

The only reason anyone remembers him is the Immaculate Reception(which should have been an incomplete pass btw, it hit Fuqua, and the NFL rules then were there were no double touches) there is no way I would put him in front of anyone on that list.....

except for Alstott. Here's mine

1: Barry Sanders
2: Jim Brown
3: Emmitt Smith
4: Walter Payton
5: Marshall Faulk
6: Eric Dickerson
7: The Juice, Orenthal James Simpsonn
8: Curtis Martin
9: Tony Dorsett
10: John Riggins