Top 5 RBs of all time

D Bone

1) Sweetness

2) Barry Sanders

3) Jim Brown

4) Emmitt Smith

5) Eric Dickerson

tiamat63

I'd rank AP higher than Emmitt.

The Gipper

@icecube said:

I mostly agree with your list, my honorable mentions, in no order: Edge James, Thurman Thomas, Terrell Davis, Bettis, Marcus Allen, James Brooks (no one ever mentions the Charger, Bangel.)

Thought about each of them.....but the guy that was possibly better at what Brooks did than Brooks, is Marshall Faulk.

Bob806

1) Jim Brown

2) Earnest Byner

3) Kevin Mack

4) Leroy Kelly

5) Earl Campbell

The Gipper

@bob806 said:

1) Jim Brown

2) Earnest Byner

3) Kevin Mack

4) Leroy Kelly

5) Earl Campbell

Surprised that you would not have put Mike Pruitt in at #5

Bob806

@the-gipper said:

Surprised that you would not have put Mike Pruitt in at #5

Lol...I thought about him, Greg Pruitt, & Metcalf. Didn't want to go full homer.

Dutch Oven

Seems like all the ones I would have mentioned have been, but I'll throw in Marshall Faulk.

cambridgeho

Tough to name a top 4 after Jim Brown. Many will argue that Barry with Emmits line would have destroyed every record possible, but he didn't have it and he did what he did. And is top 5 the same as the greatest 5 rb of all time?

Top 5: Jim Brown, Emmits smith, Barry Sanders, sweetness and Frank Gore.

Greatest: Brown, Sanders, Sweetness, Smith, Bundy

Canton Mike

My opinions:

1..Jimmy Brown..He stands alone!

2..Barry Sanders..Did more with nothing around him. Most underrated.

3..Walter Payton..What a work ethic!

4..Gale Sayers..Riddled with injuries but the most beautiful runner I ever saw!

5..Pick who you like. Many greats, but all others are a drop from the Fantastic 4.

Mike

The Gipper

Zombo said:

I like your choices and my next three would be Tomlinson, Peterson and Dickerson.

If I had ordered 5-10, I think that would have been it for me as well. Then, while they had totally different styles, Dorsett and Campbell, whose careers happened at almost the exact same time, would be interchangeable in the 9-10 spot.

The Gipper

Greatest: Brown, Sanders, Sweetness, Smith, Bundy

Is that Ted Bundy, or Al Bundy?