Arizona Cardinals Rushing Yards Leaders

Career totals with the Cardinals 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. 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.

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Ottis Anderson holds the Cardinals career record with 7,999 rushing yards. The single-season record is 1,605, by Ottis Anderson in 1979.

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

All-time Cardinals leaders

Career totals with the club

#	Player	With the club	YDS	G
1	Ottis Anderson	1979–1986	7,999	99
2	Stump Mitchell	1981–1989	4,649	116
3	Jim Otis	1973–1978	3,863	80
4	James Conner	2021–2025	3,763	60
5	Johnny Roland	1966–1972	3,608	96
6	Charlie Trippi	1947–1955	3,506	99
7	John Crow	1958–1964	3,489	69
8	Terry Metcalf	1973–1977	3,438	65
9	Wayne Morris	1976–1983	3,375	110
10	Ollie Matson	1952–1958	3,331	72
11	Kyler Murray	2019–2025	3,193	87
12	David Johnson	2015–2019	3,128	61
13	Earl Ferrell	1982–1989	2,950	110
14	Elmer Angsman	1946–1952	2,908	83
15	Edgerrin James	2006–2008	2,905	45
16	Chris Wells	2009–2012	2,471	51
17	Pat Harder	1946–1950	2,371	58
18	Johnny Johnson	1990–1992	2,326	41
19	Prentice Gautt	1961–1967	2,307	76
20	Willis Crenshaw	1964–1969	2,228	84
21	Joe Childress	1956–1965	2,210	96
22	Marcel Shipp	2001–2007	2,197	81
23	Ronald Moore	1993–1997	1,973	38
24	Michael Pittman	1998–2001	1,945	56
25	Johnny Olszewski	1953–1957	1,933	56

Single-season Cardinals records

Best seasons in club history

#	Player	Season	YDS	G
1	Ottis Anderson	1979	1,605	16
2	Ottis Anderson	1981	1,376	16
3	Ottis Anderson	1980	1,352	16
4	Ottis Anderson	1983	1,270	15
5	David Johnson	2016	1,239	16
6	Edgerrin James	2007	1,232	16
7	Ottis Anderson	1984	1,174	15
8	Edgerrin James	2006	1,159	16
9	James Conner	2024	1,094	16
10	Jim Otis	1975	1,076	14
11	John Crow	1960	1,071	12
12	Garrison Hearst	1995	1,070	16
13	Chris Wells	2011	1,047	14
14	Adrian Murrell	1998	1,042	15
15	James Conner	2023	1,040	13
16	Ronald Moore	1993	1,018	16
17	Stump Mitchell	1985	1,006	16
18	MacArthur Lane	1970	977	14
19	Kenyan Drake	2020	955	15
20	David Johnson	2018	940	16
21	Emmitt Smith	2004	937	15
22	Johnny Johnson	1990	926	14
23	Earl Ferrell	1988	924	16
23	Ollie Matson	1956	924	12
25	Jim Otis	1976	891	14