Factoid
DeAngelo Williams and Jonathan Stewart each scored 10-plus touchdowns this year.
Previously, that had happened only six times in the 30 years since the NFL went to a 16-game schedule in 1978.
Oddly, however, those teams weren’t nearly as successful as you might think. Only three of those seven teams made the playoffs, and only one won even one postseason game (that would be the 1988 Bengals, who made to the Super Bowl before losing 20-16 to San Francisco).
New Orleans Saints (1979)
11 Chuck Muncie
10 Tony Galbreath
Record: 8-8-0
Cincinnati Bengals (1985)
12 James Brooks
10 Larry Kinnebrew
Record: 7-9-0
Cleveland Browns (1985)
10 Earnest Byner
10 Kevin Mack
Record: 8-8-0 (lost first playoff game)
Cincinnati Bengals (1988)
15 Ickey Woods
14 James Brooks
Record: 12-4-0 (lost in Super Bowl)
Cleveland Browns (1991)
10 Kevin Mack
11 Leroy Hoard
Record: 6-10-0
Kansas City (2004)
11 Larry Johnson
15 Priest Holmes
Record: 7-9-0
Carolina Panthers (2008)
20 DeAngelo Williams
10 Jonathan Stewart
Record: 12-4 (lost first playoff game)
—Ian Allan
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