Chicago Bears Rushing Yards per Game Leaders

Career totals with the Bears and the best single seasons in club history. Includes the 2026 season through October 19: 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.

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Walter Payton holds the Bears career record with 88.0 rushing yards per game. The single-season record is 132.3, by Walter Payton in 1977.

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/G	G
1	Walter Payton	1975–1987	88.0	190
2	Thomas Jones	2004–2006	77.5	45
3	Gale Sayers	1965–1971	72.9	68
4	Jordan Howard	2016–2018	71.7	47
5	Matt Forte	2008–2015	71.6	120
6	Anthony Thomas	2001–2004	65.3	51
7	David Montgomery	2019–2022	60.2	60
8	Neal Anderson	1986–1993	53.2	116
9	Rick Casares	1955–1964	46.8	121
10	Roland Harper	1975–1982	34.2	89
11	Ronnie Bull	1962–1970	26.1	110
12	Matt Suhey	1980–1989	19.9	148

Single-season Bears records

Best seasons in club history

#	Player	Season	Y/G	G
1	Walter Payton	1977	132.3	14
2	Walter Payton	1984	105.3	16
3	Walter Payton	1979	100.6	16
4	Walter Payton	1976	99.3	14
5	Walter Payton	1985	96.9	16
6	Gale Sayers	1968	95.1	9
7	Rick Casares	1956	93.8	12
8	Beattie Feathers	1934	91.3	11
9	Walter Payton	1980	91.3	16
10	Thomas Jones	2005	89.0	15
11	Walter Payton	1983	88.8	16
12	Gale Sayers	1966	87.9	14
13	Jordan Howard	2016	87.5	15
14	Walter Payton	1978	87.2	16
15	Anthony Thomas	2001	84.5	14
16	Matt Forte	2013	83.7	16
17	Walter Payton	1986	83.3	16
18	Matt Forte	2011	83.1	12
19	Neal Anderson	1989	79.7	16
20	Raymont Harris	1997	79.5	13
21	Anthony Thomas	2003	78.8	13
22	Matt Forte	2008	76.9	16
23	Walter Payton	1981	76.4	16
24	Justin Fields	2022	76.2	15
25	Thomas Jones	2006	75.3	16