Question: The 1996 Houston Oilers season was the 37th season overall and 27th with the National Football League (NFL) and their final season in Houston, Houston fans would get a tease at Eddie George, the American football player who won the Offensive Rookie of the Year, with how many yards rushing?

Context articles: 1977 Houston Oilers season
1996 Houston Oilers season
1990 Houston Oilers season
Lorenzo White
2003 Tennessee Titans season
1978 Houston Oilers season
1987 Houston Oilers season
1970 Houston Oilers season
Edgerrin James
Eddie George

The 1977 Houston Oilers season was the 18th season overall and eighth with the National Football League (NFL).
 The Oilers won three of their first four games, which was capped by a 27-10 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Astrodome.
 However, injuries would hamper the Oilers chances as they lost five of their next six games.
 The team improved upon their previous season's output of 5–9, winning eight games, but failed to qualify for the playoffs for the eighth consecutive season.
The 1996 Houston Oilers season was the 37th season overall and 27th with the National Football League (NFL) and their final season in Houston.
 The team bested their previous season's output of 7–9, but failed to qualify for the playoffs for the third consecutive season.
 The Oilers only won two out of their eight games at home.
 However, on the road they won six out of eight games as the Oilers finish with an 8-8 record.
 Houston fans would get a tease as Running Back Eddie George won the Offensive Rookie of the Year with 1,368 yards rushing.
The Houston Oilers season was the 31st season and their 21st in the National Football League (NFL).
 The Oilers scored 405 points which ranked second in the AFC and second overall in the NFL.
 Their defense gave up 307 points.
 During the season, the Oilers appeared once on Monday Night Football and defeated the Buffalo Bills.
 On December 16, 1990, Warren Moon threw for 527 yards in a game against the Kansas City Chiefs.
 Moon was part of the Oilers "Run and shoot" era.
 The run and shoot offense also incorporated teammates Ernest Givens, Drew Hill, Haywood Jeffires and Curtis Duncan.
 The 1990 season saw the Oilers appear in the playoffs for the 4th consecutive season.
 They finished tied for first in the AFC Central with the Cincinnati Bengals and Pittsburgh Steelers, as all 3 teams finished with identical 9-7 records.
 The Bengals would be awarded the division title by having a better division record than Houston or Pittsburgh.
 The Oilers would win the tiebreaker over the Steelers by having a better division record than them.
 The Oilers finished the season 9-7, and clinched a wild card spot.
 In the wild card game, they were embarrassed by the Bengals 41-14, ending Houston's season in a flash.
Lorenzo Maurice White (born April 12, 1966) is a former professional American football player who was selected by the Houston Oilers in the 1st round (22nd overall) of the 1988 NFL Draft.
 He attended Dillard High School in Ft. Lauderdale in Florida.
 A 5 ft 11 in running back from Michigan State University, White played in 8 NFL seasons from 1988 to 1995.
 His best year as a pro came during the 1992 season with the Oilers, rushing for 1,226 yards and 7 touchdowns.
 He was also selected to play in the Pro Bowl that year.
 White was nationally known as the "Great White Hope from the Green and White".
 At Michigan State, White became the first Big Ten Conference running back to compile a 2000-yard season when he had 2,066 yards rushing on 419 attempts during the 1985 NCAA Division I-A football season.
 As a Senior at Michigan State, he ran for 1,572 yards and 16 TD.
 The yards were second to Jamie Morris of Michigan while he led the Big Ten in rushing attempts and rushing TDs.
The 2003 Tennessee Titans season was the team's 44th season and their 34th in the National Football League.
 At 12–4 the Titans posted the 15th season with at least ten wins in the franchise's history dating to their Houston Oilers days.
 Quarterback Steve McNair threw for 3,215 yards and 24 touchdowns to just seven interceptions; he also rushed for 138 yards and four touchdowns, all despite missing two games to injury, and was named the NFL's co-MVP with Peyton Manning of the Titans' division arch-rival Indianapolis Colts.
 Eddie George rushed for 1,031 yards and five touchdowns while Derrick Mason had 1,303 receiving yards and eight touchdowns.
 Justin McCareins had 586 punt/kick return yards and a return touchdown.
The 1978 season was the Houston Oilers 19th season and their ninth in the National Football League (NFL).
 Led by Rookie RB Earl Campbell, who won both the Offensive Rookie of the Year, and Offensive Player of the Year, who rushed for 1,450 yards, the Oilers made the playoffs with a 10-6 record, qualifying in the newly created 5th Wild Card spot.
 The franchise scored 283 points while the defense gave up 298 points.
 Their record of 10 wins and 6 losses resulted in a second-place finish in the AFC Central Division.
 In the playoffs, the Oilers would stun the Miami Dolphins, 17-9, in the two teams first playoff meeting, then defeated the New England Patriots 31-14 in New England to advance to their first ever AFC Championship game, but in that game, they would score a mere 5 points in a 34-5 blowout loss to the eventual champion Steelers.
The 1987 season Houston Oilers season was the team's 28th overall and the 18th in the National Football League (NFL).
 The Oilers came into the season looking to improve on their 5-11 record from 1986, and make the playoffs for the first time since 1980.
 The 1987 NFL season was affected by a players strike that took place in week 3 of the season, which cancelled all week 3 games.
 As a result, the Oilers cancelled their was-to-be week 3 game against the Los Angeles Raiders.
 The Oilers began the season 3-1, their best start to a season since 1980.
 After the Oilers lost at home to the Patriots 21-7 in week 5, the Oilers defeated the Atlanta Falcons and Cincinnati Bengals to give them a 5-2 start to the season.
 After the Oilers lost to the 49ers on the road, they beat the Pittsburgh Steelers on the road, 23-3, for their first win in Pittsburgh since 1978.
 The Oilers would then play 2 disastrous games against the Browns and the Colts, as they allowed 40+ points in each game, losing 40-7 to Cleveland at home and losing 51-27 to the Colts in Indianapolis.
 The Oilers would defeat the Chargers the next week, rebounding from those 2 bad losses.
 The Oilers would clinch a playoff spot in the seasons final week with a 21-17 win over Cincinnati, thus ending their 6-year playoff drought.
 In the playoffs, they defeated the Seattle Seahawks 23-20 in overtime on a Tony Zendejas field goal.
 However, the next week, they lost to the Broncos 34-10 in the Divisional Round, ending their season.
The 1970 Houston Oilers season was the 11th season overall and its first as part of the National Football League.
 The team failed to improve on their previous season's output of 6–6–2, winning only three games.
 The Oilers would start out the season winning 2 of its first 3 games, both road wins against the Steelers and Bengals.
 However, the Oilers would struggle the rest of the season, as they would go 0-6-1 following the 2-1 start.
 They would only win one more game the entire season, a 31-21 win over the Denver Broncos, before losing their final 3 games of the season to finish the season 3-10-1.
 They missed the playoffs for the 2nd time in 3 seasons.
Edgerrin Tyree James ( ; born August 1, 1978) is a former American football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for eleven seasons.
 He played college football for the University of Miami.
 He was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts fourth overall in the 1999 NFL Draft.
 James also played for the Arizona Cardinals and Seattle Seahawks.
 The AP NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year in 1999, he earned four Pro Bowl selections and four All-Pro selections.
 James is the Colts' all-time leader in career rushing yards, attempts, and touchdowns.
 James is twelfth on the all-time rushing list, and a member of the 10,000 Yards rushing club.
Edward Nathan George Jr. (born September 24, 1973) is a former professional American football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for nine seasons.
 He played college football for Ohio State University and won the Heisman Trophy in 1995.
 He was drafted in the first round of the 1996 NFL Draft, and played professionally for the Tennessee Titans (both in Tennessee and in Houston when the franchise was known as the Houston Oilers).
 George was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2011.
 Post-football, George earned an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.
 In 2016, he appeared on Broadway in the play "Chicago" as the hustling lawyer Billy Flynn.