Chicago Bears Yards per Carry Leaders

Career totals with the Bears and the best single seasons in club history. Includes the 2026 season through September 17: these records are rebuilt every night, so a mark set yesterday is here this morning. Seasons before 1922 are not in the source. Figures before 1932 are reconstructions; the NFL kept no official statistics.

Bears records →

Gale Sayers holds the Bears career record with 5.00 yards per carry. The single-season record is 8.44, by Beattie Feathers in 1934.

YDS TD Y/A ATT Y/G 1D FL

Rate records use the league's own minimums: a season needs 6.25 carries per team game with the club, a career 750+ carries with the club.

All-time Bears leaders

Career totals with the club

#	Player	With the club	Y/A	G
1	Gale Sayers	1965–1971	5.00	68
2	Walter Payton	1975–1987	4.36	190
3	Jordan Howard	2016–2018	4.33	47
4	Matt Forte	2008–2015	4.23	120
5	Thomas Jones	2004–2006	4.10	45
6	Rick Casares	1955–1964	4.08	121
7	Neal Anderson	1986–1993	4.07	116
8	Roland Harper	1975–1982	4.02	89
9	David Montgomery	2019–2022	3.94	60
10	Anthony Thomas	2001–2004	3.88	51
11	Ronnie Bull	1962–1970	3.65	110
12	Matt Suhey	1980–1989	3.56	148

Single-season Bears records

Best seasons in club history

#	Player	Season	Y/A	G
1	Beattie Feathers	1934	8.44	11
2	Justin Fields	2022	7.14	15
3	Joe Maniaci	1939	7.07	9
4	Bobby Douglass	1972	6.87	14
5	Gale Sayers	1968	6.20	9
6	Bill Osmanski	1939	5.78	10
7	Gene Ronzani	1934	5.77	12
8	Khalil Herbert	2022	5.67	13
9	Bobby Douglass	1973	5.59	13
10	Walter Payton	1977	5.46	14
11	Rick Casares	1955	5.38	12
11	Gale Sayers	1966	5.38	14
13	Robert Green	1995	5.33	12
14	Bill Osmanski	1941	5.30	10
15	Justin Fields	2023	5.30	13
16	John Dottley	1951	5.28	12
17	Bob Margarita	1944	5.26	10
18	Gale Sayers	1965	5.22	14
19	Jim Fordham	1944	5.22	10
20	Jordan Howard	2016	5.21	15
21	Norm Standlee	1941	5.11	10
22	Bobby Watkins	1955	5.03	12
23	Matt Forte	2011	4.91	12
24	D'Andre Swift	2025	4.87	16
25	John Hoffman	1955	4.83	12