NFL Single-Season Rushing Touchdowns Record Progression

Year	Player	TD	Stood for
2006	LaDainian Tomlinson	28	still standing
2003	Priest Holmes	27	3 years
1995	Emmitt Smith	25	8 years
1983	John Riggins	24	12 years
1962	Jim Taylor	19	21 years
1958	Jim Brown	17	4 years
1945	Steve Van Buren	15	13 years
1924	TH Tex Hamer	12	21 years
1922	Jimmy Conzelman	7	2 years

The earliest marks here are records only in the sense that nobody had done better yet. Season length, schedule and the rules themselves have all changed, so a figure from the 1870s is not comparable with a modern one and is not offered as though it were.