Arizona Cardinals Rushing Yards per Game Leaders
Career totals with the Cardinals and the best single seasons in club history. Includes the 2026 season through November 1: 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. Chicago Cardinals 1922-1959, St. Louis Cardinals 1960-1987, Phoenix Cardinals 1988-1993. 1944: merged with Pittsburgh as Card-Pitt. Merged-season player lines count for both franchises, as Pro-Football-Reference's franchise histories do. No schedule length in the source for 1944, so no season line that year qualifies for a rate board.
Ottis Anderson holds the Cardinals career record with 80.8 rushing yards per game. The single-season record is 100.3, by Ottis Anderson in 1979.
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 Cardinals leaders
Career totals with the club| # | Player | With the club | Y/G | G |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 Ottis Anderson
|
1979–1986 | 80.8 | 99 |
| 2 |
 Edgerrin James
|
2006–2008 | 64.6 | 45 |
| 3 |
 James Conner
|
2021–2025 | 62.7 | 60 |
| 4 |
 David Johnson
|
2015–2019 | 51.3 | 61 |
| 5 | John Crow | 1958–1964 | 50.6 | 69 |
| 6 |
 Jim Otis
|
1973–1978 | 48.3 | 80 |
| 7 |
 Ollie Matson
|
1952–1958 | 46.3 | 72 |
| 8 | Stump Mitchell | 1981–1989 | 40.1 | 116 |
| 9 | Johnny Roland | 1966–1972 | 37.6 | 96 |
| 10 | Wayne Morris | 1976–1983 | 30.7 | 110 |
Single-season Cardinals records
Best seasons in club history| # | Player | Season | Y/G | G |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Ottis Anderson
|
1979 | 100.3 | 16 |
| 2 | John Crow | 1960 | 89.3 | 12 |
| 3 |
Ottis Anderson
|
1981 | 86.0 | 16 |
| 4 |
Ottis Anderson
|
1983 | 84.7 | 15 |
| 5 |
Ottis Anderson
|
1980 | 84.5 | 16 |
| 6 |
 Kenyan Drake
|
2019 | 80.4 | 8 |
| 7 |
James Conner
|
2023 | 80.0 | 13 |
| 8 |
Ottis Anderson
|
1984 | 78.3 | 15 |
| 9 |
David Johnson
|
2016 | 77.4 | 16 |
| 10 |
Edgerrin James
|
2007 | 77.0 | 16 |
| 10 |
Ollie Matson
|
1956 | 77.0 | 12 |
| 12 |
Jim Otis
|
1975 | 76.9 | 14 |
| 13 |
 Chris Wells
|
2011 | 74.8 | 14 |
| 14 |
 Adrian Peterson
|
2017 | 74.7 | 6 |
| 15 |
 Chris Johnson
|
2015 | 74.0 | 11 |
| 16 |
Ottis Anderson
|
1982 | 73.4 | 8 |
| 17 |
Edgerrin James
|
2006 | 72.4 | 16 |
| 18 |
 MacArthur Lane
|
1970 | 69.8 | 14 |
| 19 | Adrian Murrell | 1998 | 69.5 | 15 |
| 20 |
James Conner
|
2024 | 68.4 | 16 |
| 21 | George Grosvenor | 1936 | 67.7 | 9 |
| 22 | Johnny Roland | 1967 | 67.4 | 13 |
| 23 |
 Garrison Hearst
|
1995 | 66.9 | 16 |
| 24 |
 Johnny Johnson
|
1990 | 66.1 | 14 |
| 25 | Stump Mitchell | 1987 | 65.1 | 12 |