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Chasing History: Justice Hill Enters Top 10 Career Rushing Yards List

We get to watch Justice jump-cut and stiff-arm his way through OSU’s record books.

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In only two season and three games, Justice Hill is on or near every major Oklahoma State career rushing list.

Hill, a junior, entered the OSU’s Top 10 in career rushing yards this season. After the Boise State game, Hill is up to 2,931 career rushing yards, the ninth most in school history. Hill bumped Keith Toston (2,725 yards) out of OSU’s Top 10 and moved Gerald Hudson (2,924 yards) down to No. 10.

Joseph Randle (3,085 yards) is next in Hill’s sight lines. Above Randle, everyone else on OSU’s list played four seasons at OSU aside from Barry Sanders, who ranks fifth with 3,797 career rushing yards.

Name Yards Years Active
Thurman Thomas 5,001 1984-87
Terry Miller 4,754 1974-77
David Thompson 4,318 1993-96
Kendall Hunter 4,181 2007-10
Barry Sanders 3,797 1986-88
Ernest Anderson 3,780 1979-83
Tatum Bell 3,409 2000-03
Joseph Randle 3,085 2010-12
Justice Hill 2,931 2016-present
Gerald Hudson 2,924 1988-90

Hill is outside of the Cowboys’ Top 10 rushing touchdowns list, but he is primed to chew through the bottom of that list soon.

Hill has 25 career rushing touchdowns. Three former Cowboys are tied in ninth with 27, and Bob Fenimore sits alone in eighth with 28. Hill had 15 rushing scores last season, if he does that again as a junior, he’ll have 36 career rushing TDs, putting him in sixth between Kendall Hunter (37) and Tatum Bell (34). Hill has four rushing touchdowns so far this season.

Name Rushing Touchdowns Years Active
Barry Sanders 53 1986-88
Terry Miller 49 1974-77
Thurman Thomas 47 1984-87
Joseph Randle 40 2010-12
Kendall Hunter 37 2007-10
Tatum Bell 34 2000-03
Jeremy Smith 34 2009-13
Bob Fenimore 28 1943-46
Desmond Roland 27 2011-14
David Thompson 27 1993-96
Keith Toston 27 2006-09
Justice Hill 26 2016-present

At the start of the season, Hill ranked eighth in school history in yards per rush with a minimum of 200 attempts.

After corking off a few big runs this season, Hill’s career average is up to 5.77, good enough for sixth all time, behind Vernand Morency (5.9) and above Keith Toston (5.76). Hill has averaged a ridiculous 8.1 yards a carry this season.

Name Yards Per Carry (min: 200) Years Active
Barry Sanders 6.8 1986-88
Dantrell Savage 5.99 2006-07
Andre Richardson 5.93 1994-96
Kendall Hunter 5.91 2007-10
Vernand Morency 5.9 2002-04
Justice Hill 5.77 2016-present
Keith Toston 5.76 2006-09
Gerald Hudson 5.68 1988-90
Joseph Randle 5.47 2010-12
Terry Miller 5.45 1974-77

Hill’s highest placing on these lists is on OSU’s career rushing yards per game for players who played in at least 20 games.

He has averaged 101.1 yards in his 29 career games. Above Hill are Pro Football Hall of Famers Barry Sanders (118.7) and Thurman Thomas (106.4) with the fifth pick in the 1978 NFL Draft Terry Miller (113.2) sandwiched between them.

Name Yards Per Game (min: 20) Years Active
Barry Sanders 118.7 1986-88
Terry Miller 113.2 1974-77
Thurman Thomas 106.4 1984-87
Justice Hill 101.1 2016-present
David Thompson 98.1 1993-96
Gerald Hudson 97.5 1988-90
Dantrell Savage 95.1 2006-07
Worley Taylor 92.4 1977-80
Kendall Hunter 89 2007-10
Vernand Morency 88.7 2002-04

As long as Hill gets three carries against Texas Tech, he will enter the Top 10 list on most carries in school history. As of now, Hill has 508 career carries, Nathan Simmons is 10th on the list with 511 and Gerald Hudson is ninth at 515 carries.

If Hill has 15 carries a game for the remainder of the season (including a bowl game), a number Gundy said he’d prefer to keep Hill around, Hill would finish his junior season with 658 carries putting him at sixth all time, between Kendall Hunter (708) and Tatum Bell (634). Thurman Thomas’ 989 carries will likely never be caught.

Name Carries Years Active
Thurman Thomas 989 1984-87
Terry Miller 871 1974-77
David Thompson 846 1993-96
Ernest Anderson 740 1979-83
Kendall Hunter 708 2007-10
Tatum Bell 634 2000-03
Joseph Randle 564 2010-12
Barry Sanders 558 1986-88
Gerald Hudson 515 1988-90
Keith Toston 511 1996-99
Justice Hill 508 2016-present

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