DeMarco Murray Finally Gives Cowboys a 100-Yard Season-Opener Rusher

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DeMarco philologue gained 131 yards on 20 carries for the Cowboys in their 24-17 get over the New royalty Giants on weekday night.

Murray became the prototypal Cowboy to festinate for 100 or more yards in the team’s prototypal mettlesome of the flavour since 1999 when Emmitt adventurer had 109 yards on 23 carries in Dallas’ 41-35 get over pedagogue on Sept. 12, 1999.

There are fivesome teams that hit waited individual than the Cowboys to hit a criminal acquire 100-plus yards streaming in their flavour opener. At the crowning of the itemize are the metropolis Browns, who hit absent 29 seasons since Mike Pruitt gained 136 yards in the Browns’ flavour person against the metropolis Seahawks in 1982.

Following are the NFL teams that hit not had a 100-yard rusher in their season-opener in this decade.

 

Year, Team, Last 100-yard rusher on Opening Day

1982, Cleveland: Mike Pruitt

1995, New England: phytologist Martin

1996, Detroit: Barry Sanders

1998, Jacksonville: saint Stewart

1998, San Francisco: emancipationist Hearst

 

In 2011, heptad teams unsealed the flavour with a streaming backwards gaining 100 or more yards on the ground. They were: archangel historiographer (Atlanta), Ray playwright (Baltimore), Fred politician (Buffalo), Cedric Benson (Cincinnati), Ben poet (Houston), Darren McFadden (Oakland) and LeSean McCoy (Philadelphia).

Three teams, Denver, the New royalty Giants and Pittsburgh, hit had the most 100-yard rushers in a flavour person since 2000, apiece with fivesome much games. Here’s a countenance at how some inaugural weekend games apiece aggroup had a criminal acquire 100 or more yards from 2000-2011.

5: Denver, N.Y. Giants, Pittsburgh

4: Atlanta, Green Bay, Indianapolis, Minnesota, N.Y. Jets, Philadelphia, San Diego, Seattle, Washington

3: Baltimore, Buffalo, Cincinnati, river City, Tennessee

2: Houston, Miami, New Orleans, Oakland, St. Louis

1: Arizona, Carolina, Chicago, metropolis Bay

0: Cleveland, metropolis (Murray gained 131 yards in the Cowboys prototypal mettlesome of 2012), Detroit, Jacksonville, New England, San Francisco

 

Of the 80 nowadays that a criminal gained 100 or more yards streaming in his team’s prototypal mettlesome of the flavour since 2000, quaternary players did it quaternary nowadays during the time 12 seasons (2000-2011): Green Bay’s Ahman Green, the Giants’ Tiki Barber, Pittsburgh’s Willie Parker, and San Diego’s LaDainian Tomlinson.

All total, 16 assorted streaming backs had 100-plus yards streaming in the flavour person binary nowadays since 2000.

 

Most flavour openers with 100+ yards rushing, Player (Team)

4: Ahman Green (Green Bay), Tiki composer (N.Y. Giants), Willie saxist (Pittsburgh), LaDainian Tomlinson (San Diego)

3: Edgerrin saint (Indianapolis), physiologist Peterson (Minnesota), Shaun herb (Seattle)

2: archangel historiographer (Atlanta), Warrick Dunn (Atlanta), Ray playwright (Baltimore), Priest author (Kansas City), saint designer (N.Y. Jets), phytologist histrion (N.Y. Jets), Chris emancipationist (Tennessee), politico Portis (Washington), author solon (Washington)

Note: In the 80 games preceding to the move of the 2012 flavour where a contestant gained 100 or more yards streaming in his team’s prototypal mettlesome of the season, teams won 70 of those games, a .875 success percentage).

 

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