{"id":1807,"date":"2026-03-07T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/leaders-rush_yds-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T12:00:00","slug":"leaders-rush_yds-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/leaders-rush_yds-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"The backs who carried the load: 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">James Cook III finished the 2025 season on top of the league for rushing yards with 1,621, playing for Buffalo Bills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The top five<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. James Cook III (BUF) 1,621 \u2014 2. Derrick Henry (BAL) 1,595 \u2014 3. Jonathan Taylor (IND) 1,585 \u2014 4. Bijan Robinson (ATL) 1,478 \u2014 5. De&#8217;Von Achane (MIA) 1,350.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The gap between first and fifth is 271, which is the honest measure of how much daylight the leader actually had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Longer term, the interesting question is repeatability. Turnover margin swings from season to season; yards per play does not, and that is the number to trust in a projection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The full board is on the leaders page, filterable by position, and every name on it links through to the player card and the season stat line behind the number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Cook III led the league with 1,621 rushing yards. The top five, and what separates them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":3061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[54,85,84,86],"class_list":["post-1807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-room","tag-bills","tag-james-cook-iii","tag-leaders","tag-rushing-yards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stepfoxthemes.com\/gridiron\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}