Last year, Windy City Gridiron’s Bill Zimmerman ranked the top 100 quarterbacks of all time, which featured former Green Bay Packer quarterback Aaron Rodgers as the seventh-ranked player on the list. This summer, Zimmerman tackled the running back position, this time with a more analytical approach.
Zimmerman ranked backs on a point system (within tiers), awarding 1 point for every 1,000 yards from scrimmage they recorded in their career, 5-4 points if they made the All-Decade team, 5 points for MVP
seasons, 4 points for Offensive Player of the Year seasons, 3-2 points for All-Pro seasons and 1 point for Pro Bowl seasons.
Once it was all totaled up, here were the Packers who made the top-100 list all-time and where they placed:
- #31: Jim Taylor, 40 points
“The only person to lead the NFL in rushing not named Jim Brown from 1957 to 1965.”
- #53: Paul Hornung, 25 points
- #68: Ahman Green, 18 points
- #83: Josh Jacobs: 16 points
- #93: Aaron Jones: 11 points
Below is how he had ranked the top 10 running backs of all-time:
- Walter Payton
- Jim Brown
- Barry Sanders
- Emmitt Smith
- Marshall Faulk
- OJ Simpson
- Gale Sayers
- Adrian Peterson
- LaDanian Tomlinson
- Eric Dickerson
Shocking that the Bears writer would give both Payton and Sayers a bump compared to how they scored in his point system! Anyway, if you want to see the full running back rankings, you can find them HERE.
