page_title: List of National Football League annual rushing touchdowns leaders
section_title: List
hierarchical_section_title: List of National Football League annual rushing touchdowns leaders / List
caption_attribution_description: English: John Riggins Headshot
context_page_description: This is a season-by-season list of National Football League players who have led the regular season in rushing touchdowns. Although rushing has both an offensive and a defensive meaning, this list charts offensive rushing touchdowns, usually scored by a running back, either a halfback or a fullback.
  Record-keeping for rushing touchdowns began in 1932, when Bronko Nagurski of the Chicago Bears led the league with 4 rushing touchdowns. Since then, LaDainian Tomlinson has set the record for rushing touchdowns in a season, when he led the league in 2006, with 28 rushing touchdowns, while playing with the San Diego Chargers. Prior to Tomlinson's setting of the record, Priest Holmes of the Kansas City Chiefs and Shaun Alexander of the Seattle Seahawks, jointly held the record with 27, reaching that mark in 2003 NFL season and 2005, respectively.
  Jim Brown holds the record for most league-leading seasons in rushing touchdowns, with 5. Dutch Clark became the first player to lead the league in consecutive seasons, although in 1937 he co-led the league. The first sole rushing touchdowns leader in consecutive seasons was Johnny Drake, when he led in 1939 and 1940.
context_section_description: The following is the season-by-season listing:
caption: John Riggins led the league in 1983 with the first 20+ rushing touchdown season
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