10 NFL records in danger of being broken this year
By Dustin Baker
5. Christian McCaffrey – Most Yards from Scrimmage in a Single-Season
Current Record Holder: Chris Johnson (2,509), 2009
Nobody said this would be easy.
Christian McCaffrey fell short of this record last season, an otherworldly campaign for him, by 118 yards. En route to a 5-11 record, the Carolina Panthers singularly showcased McCaffrey’s talents like he was LeBron James on the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2009.
The Panthers ensured he touched the football a whopping 403 times. This dwarfed the closest suitor, Ezekiel Elliott, by 48 touches. If you watch football games, you know Elliott is a bell-cow back in his own right.
The question is now this: Will Christian McCaffrey get the same or similar bulk of touches within a Panthers offense led by a new head coach, Matt Rhule, and new signal-caller, Teddy Bridgewater? It’s a question that has serious implications for the Panthers offense and fantasy football connoisseurs.
McCaffrey is so unique because he gets targeted more than many high-octane wide receivers. In 2019, he was targeted more than receivers such as Courtland Sutton and Kenny Golladay — centerpieces of their respective teams’ passing games.
If this pace, so to speak, maintains, McCaffrey becomes a pensive threat to Chris Johnson’s yards from scrimmage record. And with McCaffrey only 24 years of age, the record is in limbo for at least four more years. Or, McCaffrey could shatter the darn thing over and over by himself in successive seasons if his workload remains herculean.