Marcus Allen

Marcus LeMarr Allen

Position: RB
Height: 6-2 Weight: 210 lbs.

Born: March 26, 1960 in San Diego, CA
College: USC (school history)
Drafted by the Los Angeles Raiders in the 1st round (10th overall) of the 1982 NFL Draft.

Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 103 (117th overall since 1950)
6-time Pro Bowler & 2-time First-Team All-Pro (fine print)
Inducted into Hall of Fame in 2003

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News -- May 2013

5/4 FootballPerspective.com: Longest streaks without a 100-yard rusher: The Packers have gone 43 consecutive regular season games without having a 100-yard rusher. Not coincidentally, Green Bay drafted...

4/24 SideLion Report: Barry Sanders Wins Madden 25 Cover Vote Over Adrian Peterson: EA Sports set up the Madden 25 cover vote as a new school vs old school challenge and old school has won out. Barry Sanders defeated...
4/17 FootballPerspective.com: Tavon Austin Is a New Breed Of Player, Like So Many Before Him: It’s become trendy in recent weeks to discuss how players like Tavon Austin are “changing the game,” after the...
4/12 FootballPerspective.com: Which Player Has Scored the Most Game-Winning Touchdowns: Five years ago, Doug wrote an interesting post about game-winning touchdowns. Let’s be clear: tracking things like game-winning...

3/20 SideLion Report: No Current Detroit Lions Player will be on the Next Madden Cover: The first round of voting that will determine who will grace the cover of Madden 25 is over and the Detroit Lions are already...

2/6 FootballPerspective.com: NFL Retired Numbers, Player Deaths, and the Stories Behind Them: The table below lists every retired number for each of the 32 franchises. It also lists each player’s career AV (starting...

1/21 The Jet Press: 1982 New York Jets: A Look Back Continues……………: We have gotten away from this look back with the search for a general manager and an offensive coordinator going on. Now, with...
1/20 FootballPerspective.com: Super Bowl History: Now that the Super Bowl matchup is set, I thought I’d start the two-week period with some Super Bow history. The table below...
1/7 FootballPerspective.com: Jamaal Charles’ 2012 was one of the most inconsistent seasons in RB history: A couple of weeks ago, I heard my buddy and co-worker Sigmund Bloom say on the Footballguys Podcast that Jamaal Charles was having...
1/5 FootballPerspective.com: Checkdowns: Career receiving stats in wins and losses: Last weekend, I looked at career rushing stats in wins and losses, and yesterday, I did the same for quarterbacks. Today we will...

12/29 FootballPerspective.com: Checkdowns: Career rushing stats in wins and losses: Yesterday, I noted that Adrian Peterson is averaging nearly two more yards per rush in losses than wins. He’s also averaging...
12/15 FootballPerspective.com: Trivia of the Day – Sunday, December 16th: What do you give to the man who already has everything? How about a Comeback Player of the Year Award? Right now, the choice for...

10/10 FootballPerspective.com: Career Rushing Yards over 50 yards in each game: Career statistics can be very misleading, since a player can hang around for a bunch of meaningless years but really pad his totals....

8/18 FootballPerspective.com: Trivia of the Day – Saturday, August 18th: Today’s trivia is Jeopardy-style, where you need to guess the question. The answer is: LaDainian Tomlinson (2006), Shaun...

7/3 FootballPerspective.com: Is Matt Forte an elite running back?: Let’s flash back to December 1, 2011. At the time, Chicago Bears star Matt Forte was having the best season of his career...

6/23 FootballPerspective.com: Trivia of the Day – Saturday, June 23rd: On the eve of LaDainian Tomlinson’s retirement announcement, SI’s Peter King named his top-five most versatile runners...