The great Bronco Nagurski was still there in 1940. Nevertheless, the Bengals are back-to-back AFC North champions for the first time since the division was formed. How they would fare against later teams is tough, but they were a team that forever changed professional football. 2022 stats:15 games | 54 att | 217 rush yds | 4.0 ypc | 3 rush TDs | 5 rec | 15 rec yds | 0 rec TDs | 0 fumbles lost. Another famous football legend came into play during this period: George Halas took over the Decatur Staleys as player-coach and moved the team to Cubs Park in Chicago, and the Staleys became the second league champs in 1922 with a 9-1-1 record. 1. Winners. At least five of them signed with NFL teams. Moss saw an increase in production after his midseason trade from Buffalo to Indy, with six carries per game more as a member of the Colts. Football was not the number one sport in the country, baseball was. 1 overall in the draft. 3. 2 From 1966 to 1969, the first four Super Bowls were "World Championship" games played between two independent professional football leagues, AFL and NFL, and when the league, This page was last edited on 3 March 2023, at 23:43. Even though Steelers have 4 titles in six years their overall record in those six years is only 67-21 (.761), which is good, but the Dolphins record between 1970-1975 was 67-16-1 (.807) which is better. With Taylor recently undergoing ankle surgery, I'm hopeful he'll return to his 2021 form next season. So, what will happen this year? Seven franchises, including the Patriots, have won back-to-back Super Bowl victories. Brand. Not in the Vince Lombardi, Paul Brown, Bill Belichick Group. Pro football at this time was a very local activity with only 18 teams in the league. Unable to play in the Dolphins' postseason game due to a broken thumb, though, Mostert's injuries continue to prevent him from reaching his full potential. Gained lasting fame by coaching New York Jets to unexpected win in Super Bowl III, Playoffs: 1958 Defeated New York Giants (9-3) 23-17 OT, 1959 Defeated New York Giants (10-2) 31-16. They won the first two Super Bowls (even though they werent called that at the time). This is a tough team to place. 2022 stats:10 games | 62 att | 233 rush yds | 3.8 ypc | 1 rush TD | 16 rec | 68 rec yds | 0 rec TDs | 2 fumbles lost. Notes: This is an overrated team, mainly because they won the game that put the NFL on the map, the 1958 Championship Game against the New York Giants. The Los Angeles Dons merged with the Los Angeles Rams to make a fourth team to be included. His improvement as a runner and receiver should position him to become the Patriots' full-time starter in 2023 -- especially with Damien Harris being a free agent this offseason. The easiest comparison is with the team they replaced as best in football, the Miami Dolphins. 2022 stats:8 games | 92 att | 520 rush yds | 5.7 ypc | 2 rush TDs | 7 rec | 42 rec yds | 1 rec TD | 0 fumbles lost. Six years prior to Fenimore, the Bears chose Tom Harmon with the No. 2022 stats: 17 games | 170 att | 830 rush yds | 4.9 ypc | 5 rush TDs | 13 rec | 130 rec yds | 0 rec TDs | 2 fumbles lost. 1 picks in NFL draft history. Freeman was elevated from the practice squad after Pierce's injury. Notes: Signing Sid Luckman to run it, George Halas introduced the revolutionary T Formation in 1940. The result: The NFL has a brand new rushing champ. The Raiders declined Jacobs' fifth-year option and then proceeded to give him the rock for a whopping 340 carries this season. Detroit Red Wings: The team has seen multiple victories across three different decades. He set career highs in carries, rush yards and total touchdowns in 2022 -- and he once again averaged 5-plus yards per run, something he has done in each of his five NFL campaigns. 2132", "Jacksonville Jaguars Franchise Encyclopedia", National Football League championship games, National Football League Players Association, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Super_Bowl_champions&oldid=1142709944, Short description is different from Wikidata, Wikipedia indefinitely semi-protected pages, Pages using navbox columns without the first column, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. Carter, originally projected as one of the top players in next month's NFL draft, could lose millions of dollars if he drops from the top of the first round because of his alleged connection to . John Stallworth is a solid Hall of Fame selection, but was he better than Paul Warfield? The first round will take place on Thursday, with rounds two and three on Friday and the last four on Saturday. The Offensive Line was probably not as good as the Packers, but with Jim Langer, Larry Little and Bob Kuechenberg it is still among the best ever. Maurice Jones-Drew assembles the perfect running back, combining the traits of some of today's top talent in the NFL. Just mere months remain until the draft, as prospects gather to kickstart their careers and fulfill lifelong dreams. 2022 stats:17 games | 244 att | 1,139 rush yds | 4.7 ypc | 8 rush TDs | 85 rec | 741 rec yds | 5 rec TDs | 0 fumbles lost. [4], The NFL did not begin keeping official records until the 1932 season. Let them underestimate you and you don't want to always remind them that you are the man when it comes to pulling triggers on trades. Plus, just how far did Pollard climb in MJD's RB rankings after his big Week 11 outing? An aging Jim Thorpe "moved from Canton to the (football) Cleveland Indians, but he was hurt early in the season and played very little," NFL.com notes. Notes: The Dolphins No-Name Defense may have been best defense listed. Kamara proved to once again be a bright spot in a unit working to find consistency from week to week, as he became the only player in NFL history with at least 700 rush yards and 400 receiving yards in each of his first six seasons, per NFL Research. Derrick Henry is the most recent player to win back-to-back titles.[7]. Eleven total teams have made back-to-back appearances in the Super Bowl. The game was more like Rugby than modern football. He mostly ran the ball, but on 3rd and long would throw. 2022 stats:13 games | 68 att | 245 rush yds | 3.6 ypc | 2 rush TDs | 16 rec | 157 rec yds | 1 rec TD | 0 fumbles lost. Notes: Awesome two-year record. Federal Way threw everything it could at defending state champion Curtis in a 4A semifinal game at the Tacoma Dome on Friday night: a full-court press, trap, man-to-man, 2-3 zone. The group changed its name to the NFL in 1922. Regular Season Record: 10-6 14-2 (24-8) .750. [1] In the National Football League (NFL), the player who has recorded the most rushing yards for a season is considered the winner of the rushing title for that season. There were some games where he went full bell cow and others where he was barely used. He wasn't all that productive, averaging less than 3.0 yards per carry in three of his four games played for Houston. With the real thing just weeks away, its never too early to start putting together mock drafts. Murray proved to be a solid midseason pickup for the Broncos after starter Javonte Williams sustained a season-ending injury, averaging 5.1 yards per carry in his seven starts. Chills. Finishing as a top-five rusher this season, Barkley's clearly still a premier back when his body cooperates. Compiling five 100-yard rushing games on the way to a 1,000-yard campaign in Year 1, Walker has laid the groundwork for a successful career in Seattle's backfield. Text Box Collection Description 2021 AFC East Division Champions. Which player earns the No. . Jim Taylor was just about through. ET. The Kansas City Chiefs became the latest team to return to the Super Bowl one season after winning it all but fail to defend the title. Regular Season Record: 9-3 10-2 (19-5) .792, Playoffs: 1952 Defeated Los Angeles Rams (9-3) 31-21, 1952 Defeated Cleveland Browns (8-4) 17-7, 1953 Defeated Cleveland Browns (11-1) 17-16. In two Super Bowls, the defense only allowed 7 points. RELATED: NFL quarterbacks with the most Super Bowl wins ahead of Buccaneers vs. Chiefs. The other 4 teams of the AAFC folded. Eric Dickerson, Emmitt Smith, O. J. Simpson, Steve Van Buren, and Barry Sanders are tied for the second-most rushing titles, each having won four times. While he excelled in short-yardage and goal-line situations, scoring 12 rushing touchdowns (his most since 2019), he's not the explosive playmaker he once was for the Cowboys -- which led to Tony Pollard earning a bigger role in Dallas' rushing attack in 2022. 2022 stats: 16 games | 295 att | 1,312 rush yds | 4.4 ypc | 10 rush TDs | 57 rec | 338 rec yds | 0 rec TDs | 0 fumbles lost. The fact that the back still rushed for 4.5 yards a pop is pretty impressive, given his circumstances. The 2021 Super Bowl is happening today and this years game will feature a match up between the Kansas City Chiefslast years Super Bowl championsand the Tampa Bay Buccaneers who have not won the Lombardi trophy since 2003 (Super Bowl 37) when they defeated the Raiders 48-21. Harris, a 2023 free agent, can still provide a team with a solid backfield option when healthy. [6], The player with the most rushing titles is Jim Brown, who was the rushing champion eight times over his career. 2. The game was considered over so much that tickets began to print for the San Francisco vs. Cleveland NFL Championship game. In 1988, Doug Williams, who played for Washington, made history as the first Black QB to win the NFL's biggest game. Two moments that immediately come to mind: his 64-yard catch-and-run touchdown in the Vikings' comeback win over the Colts and the career-long 81-yard TD run against the Bills. He had nine carries or more in two games -- in a Week 2 blowout loss to Buffalo and a Week 17 defeat to Dallas, when he got the start with Derrick Henry (hip) and Dontrell Hilliard (neck) out. Ironically, Lord Stanley . Hall was one of the most electric runners at the time of his season-ending knee injury -- evidenced by his average of 5.8 yards per carry through seven weeks. This was the best team in football from 1946-1955. Four current teams have never reached the Super Bowl (shown in bold below). The first draft in NFL history took place at Philadelphias Ritz-Carlton Hotel, where the nine teams in existence at the time gathered to select from a pool of 90 players. Notes: These teams completely dominated during both playoff runs. See below for the full list of repeat Super Bowl winners and additional information on how to watch the big game. Still they are not to be taken seriously as great team. About even with Chuck Knoll. Top speed? You won't want to miss a moment of the 2022 season! The New England Patriots are the last franchise to repeat as Super Bowl champions, winning Super Bowl XXXIX over the Philadelphia Eagles in 2005 in Jacksonville, Florida, after defeating the. Wilson split time in San Francisco and Miami after a midseason trade. Seven franchises, including the Patriots, have won back-to-back Super Bowl victories. With Jones being the versatile, elusive playmaker in space, Dillon is a bruiser at the line of scrimmage with the ability to gain chunk yards every time he gets the rock. 2000 - St. Louis Rams2001 - Baltimore Ravens2002 - New England Patriots2003 - Tampa Bay Buccaneers2004 - New England Patriots2005 - New England Patriots2006 - Pittsburgh Steelers2007 - Indianapolis Colts2008 - New York Giants2009- Pittsburgh Steelers. Regular Season Record: 14-0, 12-2 (26-2) .929. The rest of the 2023 NFL Draft order, with the position of the Eagles and Chiefs to be determined by Super Bowl results, is below. He should get another opportunity -- either from New England or another squad. 2022 stats:13 games | 37 att | 152 rush yds | 4.1 ypc | 0 rush TDs | 7 rec | 40 rec yds | 0 rec TDs | 0 fumbles lost. Here's the complete list: NBA Repeat Champions Minneapolis Lakers: 1952, 1953, 1954 Boston Celtics: 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966 Boston Celtics: 1968, 1969 Los Angeles Lakers:. The 33-year-old veteran showed he still had some juice as a bruiser between the tackles up until a knee injury ended his season in early December. It helped that the pending free agent was finally healthy for a full season. The Broncos were the first AFC team to repeat as Super Bowl winners since the 1970s Steelers, beating the Packers for their first title and the Atlanta Falcons for their second one. Yearly Super Bowls continued to determine the NFL champions. The Jets shuffled through running backs like nobody's business after Breece Hall went down for the season. * 21+ (19+ CA-ONT) (18+ NH/WY). championship game, 27-24, on a walk-off field goal in overtime on Sunday. 2022 stats:11 games | 192 att | 861 rush yds | 4.5 ypc | 4 rush TDs | 28 rec | 143 rec yds | 0 rec TDs | 3 fumbles lost. Cam Newton is the only national championship-winning quarterback on this list to be drafted No. Notes: The roster and strengths are similar to 1961-62 team. With that said, ahead of the 2023 NFL offseason, we'll be making our 49ers offseason predictions. Call 1-800-GAMBLER. Fifty years. They could be the greatest team of all time. Coach: Bill Walsh 1988, George Seifert 1989; these were Bill Walshs teams. He has many situational substitutions and allows marginal players to excel at very specific responsibilities. Terms at draftkings.com/sportsbook. Find out each Super Bowl winning team throughout NFL pro football history. This will be the first time that Kansas City has hosted the NFL Draft since its inception in 1936. 1 overall. Show replies. The Chiefs defeated the 49ers, 31-20, to win Super Bowl LIV behind MVP quarterback Patrick Mahomes. We are on the brink of wrapping up the fifth season of the RB Index, but I'm about to enter some new territory. Coach: Bill Belichick; best coach ever? The Packers took a step back on offense in 2022. The veteran logged the sixth-most rushing yards (759) in the league from Week 8 (his first start in 2022) through the end of the regular season. 2019, was the championship game for the 2018 NFL season and is thus considered a 2018 championship. Georgia football players are the talk of the NFL Scouting Combine this week, as [] Georgia Police Issue Arrest Warrant for Potential First Round Pick Jalen Carter over Fatal Crash of Teammate What is going on at the University of . This is a team hard to rate. Only 7 franchises in NFL history have achieved the rare feat of winning back-to-back titles. Notes: The Browns are usually dismissed as a great team, because they dominated the sub-standard AAFC. Fournette, who battled a foot injury in the second half of the season, failed to recreate the magic he brought to the Bucs' offense in each of the previous two years. The league did not hold a championship in 1920, but Akron, which was the only undefeated team that year, was declared the champion. However, Jones' rushing efficiency did not. Last years 2022 NFL Draft saw DE Travon Walker taken as the No. However, Jones' rushing efficiency did not. Maurice Jones-Drew has one thought about the Cowboys' usage of Ezekiel Elliott and Tony Pollard in Zeke's return: Keep it even-steven! The Bucs' run game was nearly nonexistent in Tom Brady's final season, prompting a midseason switch at running back from Leonard Fournette to the third-round rookie. Joe Montana is on the short list of greatest quarterback ever. Sparked by quarterback Troy Aikman, the Dallas Cowboysdubbed America's Teamwon three Super Bowls in a four-year span during the first half of the decade. 2022 stats:17 games | 262 att | 1,066 rush yds | 4.1 ypc | 17 rush TDs | 12 rec | 73 rec yds | 0 rec TDs | 2 fumbles lost. 2022 stats: 13 games | 171 att | 760 rush yds | 4.4 ypc | 6 rush TDs | 27 rec | 132 rec yds | 0 rec TDs | 0 fumbles lost. Though he averaged only five carries per game this season, Edmonds posted nearly 2 yards more per tote in Denver. [5] Since the adoption of the 14-game season in 1961, all but one rushing champion have recorded over 1,000 yards rushing. 2022 stats: 16 games | 210 att | 1,035 rush yds | 4.9 ypc | 3 rush TDs | 16 rec | 139 rec yds | 1 rec TD | 0 fumbles lost. The NFL held no championship games during this decade. The team they beat in the Championship Game were the L.A. Rams, who had many players from the old AAFC Dons. He looked like the player who took the league by storm and won Offensive Rookie of the Year back in 2018. What was the last team to repeat as Super Bowl champion? Playoffs: 1972 Defeated Cleveland Browns (10-4) 20-14, Defeated Pittsburgh Steelers (11-3) 21-17, Defeated Washington Redskins (10-4) 14-7 1973 Super Bowl VII, Playoffs: 1973 Defeated Cincinnati Bengals (10-4) 34-16, Defeated Minnesota Vikings (12-2) 24-7 1974 Super Bowl VIII. Indeed, theNFL was founded in 1920, when teams from four statesOhio, Indiana, New York and Illinoiscame together to form theAmerican Professional Football Association, according to NFL.com. His best outing came in Week 15 against the Chiefs, when he ran for 51 yards on 11 carries (4.6 yards a pop). The Patriots established themselves as the NFLs most recent dynasty with three Super Bowl wins in four years during the early 2000s, including back-to-back titles following the 2003-04 seasons. Playoffs: 1946 Defeated New York Yankees (10-3-1) 14-9, 1947 Defeated New York Yankees (11-2-1) 14-3, 1950 Defeated Los Angeles Rams (9-3) 30-28. The Green Bay Packers were the first team to do so, winning each of the first two Super Bowls. His best play of the season came on a clutch 18-yard catch-and-run touchdown in the fourth quarter against the Raiders in Week 12. The Green Bay Packers, Pittsburgh Steelers, Denver Broncos,[n 1] and New England Patriots have each had two separate consecutive appearances. His season started off so well with 50-yard runs in consecutive weeks. Record over an 18-year span, it is probably the most impressive of all time. 2022 stats:11 games | 110 att | 425 rush yds | 3.9 ypc | 3 rush TDs | 11 rec | 51 rec yds | 2 rec TDs | 0 fumbles lost. This was A GREAT TEAM! Before the charges, Carter who starred on Georgia's back-to-back national championship-winning teams in 2021 and 2022 was considered by some to be the best overall prospect in the draft . He was a steady in the Bills' backfield as part of a 1-2 punch alongside rookie James Cook, whose promising first year could cause Buffalo to let Singletary hit free agency in March. His day didn't stop there, either, as he had a second kickoff return for a touchdown. Cook eclipsed 1,000 ground yards for the fourth straight season, and though he wasn't consistent week to week, he provided big-time sparks in big-time games throughout the season. Sneaking off to Indianapolis in the middle of the night after the 1983 season. The full listing of teams with consecutive appearances is below in order of first occurrence; winning games are in bold: The following teams have faced each other more than once in the Super Bowl:[n 2]. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Part of a struggling Colts offense, Jackson flashed as a spell back to Jonathan Taylor for much of the season. The first two were marketed as the "AFLNFL World Championship Game", but were also casually referred to as "the Super Bowl game" during the television broadcast. As did author and Sports Illustrated writer George Plimpton, who had a brief preseason stint as a . Maybe the best Linebacker Corps ever (Jack Lambert, Jack Ham, Andy Russell). NFL Back 2 Campus | NFL.com Back 2 Campus Longform Series 2022 NFL Draft class latest to boast crop of raw pass-rushing prospects Apr 20, 2022 HBCU QB Aqeel Glass just wants 'an. 2022 stats:10 games | 70 att | 283 rush yds | 4.0 ypc | 3 rush TDs | 17 rec | 102 rec yds | 0 rec TDs | 0 fumbles lost. 1930 - Green Bay Packers1931 - Green Bay Packers1932 - Chicago Bears1933 - Chicago Bears1934 - New York Giants1935 - Detroit Lions1936 - Green Bay Packers1937 - Washington Redskins1938 - New York Giants1939 - Green Bay Packers. Kobe won back-to-back titles in 2009 and 2010 with the Lakers (without Shaq) during the peak Mamba years. 2022 stats: 16 games | 349 att | 1,538 rush yds | 4.4 ypc | 13 rush TDs | 33 rec | 398 rec yds | 0 rec TDs | 3 fumbles lost. @NFL. The biggest concern is the quality of football played prior to the 1960s. They were the greatest team ever up to the rise of the Green Bay Packers in the early 60s. He had three games where he averaged more than 6.0 yards per carry, but posted a ypa mark below 3.5 in 11 other contests. They did not dominate as they did in the early 60s. The other two teams that have never appeared in a Super Bowl (Cleveland and Detroit) both held NFL league championships prior to Super Bowl I in the 1966 NFL season[n 7]. 2022 stats:5 games | 18 att | 52 rush yds | 2.9 ypc | 1 rush TD | 0 rec | 0 rec yds | 0 rec TDs | 0 fumbles lost. The 2022 season saw the focal point of the Bears' rushing attack pivot from Montgomery to dual-threat quarterback Justin Fields, who had a team-high 1,143 rush yards. Stop A.J. The list of teams potentially in the market for an upgrade at the position -- Houston, Indianapolis, Seattle, Detroit, Las Vegas, Atlanta, Carolina, etc.