Season: 2005
Team: Seattle Seahawks
Rushing NEP: 66.11
Success Rate: 47.03%
| G | ATT | YDS | Y/G | AVG | TD | FUML |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 370 | 1,880 | 117.5 | 5.1 | 27 | 1 |
Lynch led the league in this category -- his 51.08 from 2012-2014 would still fall more than 15 points behind Alexander's Rushing NEP of 66.11 in 2005.
His output on the field would not only propel the Seahawks to the best record in the NFC at 13-3 but would also earn him every distinction imaginable including First-Team All-Pro and Pro Bowl selections, the AP NFL Offensive Player of the Year, NFL Alumni Rushing Back Player of the Year, and NFL MVP awards.
Alexander's performance that season led the Seahawks all the way to the cusp of the franchise's first Super Bowl title, where they would lose to Hines Ward and the Pittsburgh Steelers 21-10 in a controversially officiated game.
It would take nearly a decade before Seattle would get another shot at this milestone. And in Super Bowl XLVIII, the Seahawks achieved redemption and finally hoisted their first Vince Lombardi trophy, which perhaps not coincidentally, relied in large part on the performance of their bruising, workhorse back in Marshawn Lynch.
While 2005 would be Alexander's last great rushing season -- it would be the last time in his career he would ever top the 1,000-yard rushing mark -- his performance that year would be one for the ages and gave Seahawks fans one hell of a swan song.