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Chase Edmonds

Backup nets hat-trick of long touchdown runs

Chase Edmonds ran for 3 touchdowns against the Giants, and they all came from at least 20 yards. That’s rare. It’s not easy scoring on longer runs in the NFL.

In the last 10 years, in fact, only 12 running backs have scored more than 3 touchdowns on runs of 20-plus yards in a season. Chris Johnson scored 8 such touchdowns in 2009 (the season he ran for 2,006 yards). Nobody else has scored more than 5.

Only one other running back has scored 3 long touchdowns in the same game. That was Doug Martin, going off at Oakland in 2012 on a day he ran for 251 yards.

I am sure it’s also been done previously in other seasons. Clinton Portis, for one, in a home game against Kansas City at the end of the 2003 season.

Edmonds earlier in the year scored on a 37-yard run at Cincinnati.

I don’t see Edmonds as an elite, up-and-coming talent. I’m not knocking him; he’s fine. But in this case, I thought the touchdowns – all of them – can be attributed more to poor defensive play. New York came in with a poor run defense and didn’t seem to have the right scheme or plan for this offense, leaving Edmonds free to run through gaping holes for easy touchdowns.

But give credit to Edmonds and Arizona for generating rushing production. Some of that can be attributed to Kliff Kingsbury’s play calling. His teams at Texas Tech averaged 21 rushing touchdowns in his six seasons there.

In the last 10 seasons, only 45 other running backs have managed to score at least 3 rushing touchdowns from 20-plus yards in a season.

TD RUNS OF 20-PLUS YARDS
YearPlayerNo
2009Chris Johnson, Ten.8
2011DeAngelo Williams, Car.5
2012Doug Martin, T.B.5
2009Jonathan Stewart, Car.4
2009Maurice Jones-Drew, Jac.4
2009Jamaal Charles, K.C.4
2012Jamaal Charles, K.C.4
2012Adrian Peterson, Min.4
2012Marshawn Lynch, Sea.4
2013LeSean McCoy, Phil.4
2015Adrian Peterson, Min.4
2018Saquon Barkley, NYG4
2019Chase Edmonds, Ariz.4
2009Ray Rice, Balt.3
2009Ryan Grant, G.B.3
2009Adrian Peterson, Min.3
2009Thomas Jones, NYJ3
2009Frank Gore, S.F.3
2010Arian Foster, Hou.3
2010Derrick Ward, Hou.3
2010Danny Woodhead, N.E.3
2010Darren McFadden, Oak.3
2010LeSean McCoy, Phil.3
2010Ryan Mathews, S.D.3
2010Chris Johnson, Ten.3
2011Willis McGahee, Den.3
2011LeSean McCoy, Phil.3
2011LeGarrette Blount, T.B.3
2012Reggie Bush, Mia.3
2012Chris Johnson, Ten.3
2013James Starks, G.B.3
2013Cordarrelle Patterson, Min.3
2013LeGarrette Blount, N.E.3
2014Jamaal Charles, K.C.3
2015Karlos Williams, Buff.3
2015C.J. Anderson, Den.3
2016Ezekiel Elliott, Dall.3
2017LeSean McCoy, Buff.3
2017Kareem Hunt, K.C.3
2017Alvin Kamara, N.O.3
2017Mark Ingram, N.O.3
2017Marshawn Lynch, Oak.3
2018Tevin Coleman, Atl.3
2018Nick Chubb, Cle.3
2018Phillip Lindsay, Den.3
2018Melvin Gordon, LAC3

—Ian Allan

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