Three different teams last year didn't have a 500-yard rusher - Arizona, Green Bay and Jacksonville. That's rare (I'm not sure that it's ever happened to three teams in the same season before).

In the last 10 years, only seven other teams made it through a season without at least getting somebody halfway to the 1,000-yard mark.


LEADING RUSHERS UNDER 500 YARDS (2002-)
   Att   Yds   Year

   112   425   2004   Amos Zereoue (Oak.)
   157   451   2005   Marcel Shipp (Ariz.)
    68    343   2008   Peyton Hillis (Den.)
   124   494   2009   Clinton Portis (Wash.)
   131   437   2009   Steve Slaton (Hou.)
   129   497   2010   Donald Brown (Ind.)
    84    390   2011   Jahvid Best (Det.)
   135   464   2012   Alex Green (G.B.)
    86    414   2012   Maurice Jones-Drew (Jac.)
   111   357   2012   LaRod Stephens-Howling (Ariz.)

^aEUR"Ian Allan