In 2015, there were just 15 games where a player rushed for at least 150 yards in a single game. That’s the smallest number since 1996, when just 14 players hit that mark. Thomas Rawls (!) was the only player with multiple games of 160+ rushing yards, and Adrian Peterson was the only other player with two 150+ yard rushing games.

Games with at least 150 rushing yards were much more common in the early ’00s, but they have not exactly been frequent throughout history. The graph below shows the number of times players rushed for 150+ yards in a game in each season since 1960. Note that in seasons with fewer than 32 teams/16 games, the number of instances were prorated as if it was a 512-game league season.

The same trend holds up if we look at 125+ rushing yard games, with 2015 representing a modern low. Again, throughout this post, I have pro-rated non-512 game seasons.

There were only 96 100-yard rushing games this year; that’s the fewest since 1994, although there were only 97 instances just two years ago:

There were 201 times in 2014 where a player rushed for at least 75 yards; 2015 was the first time since 1994, though, that there were less than 200 such games:

And, the same trend holds up at the 50-rushing yard game level: 2015 was the first time with fewer than 400 such games, and the lowest mark since 1994.

Finally, let’s put it all in one graph:

And for those curious to see the data in table form (again, remember the pro-rating here, although all numbers have been rounded):

As always, please leave your thoughts in the comments.