Josh Jacobs is scrambling to join a pair of Packers to accomplish a rare feat

Coming off the worst season of his NFL career, missing four games for the Las Vegas Raiders and rushing for a career-low 805 yards, Josh Jacobs has had a strong bounce-back campaign in his first year with the Green Bay Packers.

Through the same 13 games he played a season ago, the sixth-year veteran has already hit the 1,000-yard mark for the fourth time, rushing for 1,053 yards while averaging a solid 4.4 yards per carry. . carry with 11 touchdowns, seven of which have come. in the last three weeks.

Jacobs has also added another 260 yards on 27 receptions and even had the first-ever receiving touchdown of his career back in Week 7 in Green Bay’s 24-22 win over the Houston Texans.

Then again, he’s having a solid first season in a Packers uniform. And if he can maintain his production or increase it slightly over the final four weeks of the regular season, Jacobs will join a pair of Packers in an exclusive club.

Since the NFL was founded in 1920, only one Green Bay Packers player has ever led the league in rushing yards, an honor that belonged to the legendary Jim Taylor, who ran for a career-high 1,474 yards in 1962 en route to winning the NFL MVP.

Green Bay also won its second straight and eighth overall NFL championship that season.

Since then, no Green Bay back has won the rushing title. And since the AFL-NFL merger in 1970, only two Packers have even finished in the top three.

In 1971, John Brockington rushed for 1,105 yards en route to winning Offensive Rookie of the Year, trailing only Floyd Little, who rushed for 1,133 yards for the Denver Broncos. Brockington also finished second in 1973, but it was a distant second when OJ Simpson recorded the first 2,000-yard season in NFL history, rushing for 2,003 yards with the Buffalo Bills to earn MVP honors.

In 2003, Ahman set the Green Packers’ single-season rushing record with 1,883 yards, but still finished second to Jamal Lewis, who amassed 2,066 yards on the ground for the Baltimore Ravens.

And that’s it.

Heading into Green Bay’s Week 15 matchup with the Seattle Seahawks, Jacobs has the fourth-most rushing yards this season, trailing only Saquon Barkley (1,623) of the Philadelphia Eagles, Derrick Henry (1,407) of the Baltimore Ravens and Kyren Williams 1.121. ) of the Los Angeles Rams.

Of course, it should be noted that Williams has already had his Week 15 game, rushing for 108 yards in the Rams’ 12-6 win over the San Francisco 49ers on Thursday night.

Jacobs doesn’t catch Barkley or Henry, so he’ll battle Williams for the No. 3 down the stretch, and Jahmyr Gibbs (1,016) of the Detroit Lions and Chuba Hubbard (1,011) are also in the mix.

That said, Jacobs currently owns the highest average among those four backs at 81.0 yards per game, with Williams at 80.1, Gibbs at 78.2 and Hubbard at 77.8.

So if things hold up over the next four weeks, Jacobs will join Brockington and Green in the Packers’ exclusive club to finish in the top three in rushing.

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