Posted by Gerry Hamilton
Senior running back
Traylon Shead (Cayuga, Texas/Cayuga) began the season with a shot to break Sugar Land (Texas) runner Kenneth Hall's long-standing record of 11,232 yards in a season. However, a high ankle sprain and a cancelled game due to lightning have derailed his chance to break the record that has stood since 1953. Nonetheless, Texas commit is still racing up the charts.
On Friday, the 6-foot-2, 210-pounder rushed for 182 yards and two touchdowns moving into ninth place on the career-rushing list with 9,007 yards. Shead began the season with more than 35 names in front of him on the national career rushing record list, but is now only looking up at eight names.
Most Career Rushing Yards Career (Nationally)
11,232 -- Ken Hall (Sugar Land, Texas), 1950-53
11,045 -- Michael Hart (Nedrow Onondaga, N.Y.), 2000-03
10,241 -- Toney Baker (Jamestown Ragsdale, N.C.), 2001-04
9,662 --
Toby Gerhart (Norco, Calif.), 2002-05
9,442 -- Troy Fleming (Franklin Battle Ground Academy, Tenn.), 1995-98
9,426 -- Tyrell Sutton (Akron Archbishop Hoban, Ohio), 2001-04
9,193 -- Brad Hocker (Archie, Mo.), 1988-91
9,076 -- Demetris Summers (Lexington, S.C.), 1999-02
9,007Traylon Shead (Cayuga, Texas) 2006-2009
9,004 -- T.A. McLendon (Albemarle, N.C.), 1999-01
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Gerry Hamilton
Gerry Hamilton has covered recruiting in Texas and the Southwest for over a decade. He can be reached at espngerry@yahoo.com.
