Tennessee Titans running back Chris Johnson has become the sixth player in NFL history to rush for 2,000 yards in a season.
Tennessee running back becomes sixth member of 2,000-yard club
Tennessee Titans running back Chris Johnson has become the sixth player in NFL history to rush for 2,000 yards in a season.
Johnson began the Titans' final game, against the Seattle Seahwaks at Qwest Field, needing 128 yards.
And he reached the milestone on a four-yard run early in the fourth quarter of his side's 17-13 victory.
The 24-year-old out of East Carolina University, in just his second year in the NFL, joins Eric Dickerson, Jamal Lewis, Barry Sanders, Terrell Davis and OJ Simpson in the exclusive 2,000-yard club.
Game officials tossed the ball to the Titans sideline but there was little other acknowledgement of the accomplishment.
In fact, it was Johnson's second milestone of the day as, in the second quarter, he set the league record for yards from scrimmage in a season on a nine-yard pass from Vince Young.
That broke Marshall Faulk's 1999 mark and gave Johnson 2,254 yards from scrimmage.
Later in the opening half, he passed Earl Campbell's franchise record of 1,934 yards rushing set in 1980. He finished the season with 2,006 rushing yards.
