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The top 3

  1. Top 3 All-Time Career Rushing Yards Leaders: Emmitt Smith leads all NFL running backs with 18,355 career rushing yards, followed by Walter Payton with 16,726 yards and Frank Gore with 16,000 yards.
  2. Top 3 Running Backs with Most Career Games Played: Frank Gore holds the record for most career games played by a running back with 241, followed by Emmitt Smith with 226 games, and Marcus Allen, who played 16 seasons.
  3. NFL Teams with Multiple All-Time Top 25 Rushing Leaders: The Dallas Cowboys (Emmitt Smith, Tony Dorsett), Pittsburgh Steelers (Jerome Bettis, Franco Harris), and Los Angeles Rams (Eric Dickerson, Marshall Faulk) are among the teams with multiple running backs ranked in the top 25 for career rushing yards.

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