Active player with the most rushing TDs in a single season?

[Seal (SmittyIsOurSavior)]

None other than our very own DeAngelo Williams.

 

DeAngelo rushed for 1,515 yards and 18 touchdowns in 2008, tied for the 15th highest rushing TD total of all-time. Not bad for a small back who was splitting carries with a younger, bigger, and stronger short yardage back in Jonathan Stewart.

 

Interestingly enough, the 2008 season was Jonathan Stewart's rookie year, in which Stewart also added on 836 yards and 10 TDs of his own.

 

Man, the glory days of having two top 10 NFL RBs...

[jayflip]

Didn't he not fumble that year too? Or only once. I don't remember.

[cbarrier90]

Man, the glory days of having two top 10 NFL RBs...

 

 

Man, the glory days of two RBs on rookie contracts...

[Seal (SmittyIsOurSavior)]

Didn't he not fumble that year too? Or only once. I don't remember.

 

Correct. Adrian Peterson, the league's leading rusher that year, had 8 or 9 if I remember correctly.

[Brooklyn Bully]

Ah ... 2008. The good ol days ... and the same days our FO mistakingly thought we still were in.

[Luck's neckbeard]

2008 D-Will was the best RB I've seen since Barry Sanders. Dude was a machine.

[Big Beast]

We also had the best offensive line I can ever remember the Panthers having that year too.  Jeff Otah really set us back with his injury, he could really open up huge gaps when he was healthy.  Traded up for a first round pick and we got one season out of him.

[cbarrier90]

Ah ... 2008. The good ol days ... and the same days our FO mistakingly thought we still were in.

 

The sad thing is while most of the moves made that offseason were ultimately failures (mainly the Jake extension) at least it was understandable coming off a 12-4 record.

 

What is holding the team back now are the moves made after the 2-14 season. At a point when the organization had the opportunity (and cap space)  to completely hit the reset button a la Indianapolis after the Peyton-less season, Fox was used as a scapegoat (though it was time to move on) and Marty was left to go on a shopping spree which ultimately resulted in simply bringing back the 2-14 team on their now infamous contracts.

 

That offseason was when I joined the Huddle, and I still remember the excitement that we had beaten the Falcons to sign CJ. So naive, we were...

[PhillyB]

worst pro bowl snub of the last decade

[OneBadCat]

Gotta say I really love having Deangelo on the team despite his contract. He really is a team guy and he had the talent to be a Top 5 guy year in and year out. Things just haven't really worked out that way. I feel like he could have left for another team and probably had a more successful career if he could stay healthy. But I feel like he still has tread on his tires. He was a very special player. He's the most Barry Sanders like RB I've seen play. Not quite as fast though. 

 

 

I was always a Deshaun Foster homer but Williams was better than him from the get go and should have started his rookie year. 

[Panthers Fanatic]

Fans tend to forget how good DWill and Stewie were together those first two seasons. You don't get the nicknames (Double Trouble, Smash n Dash, etc.) and national attention for no reason. I, too, miss those days!

[Jmac]

Sung to the 60's pop song:"those where the days my friend, we thought they would never end". But alas, time and a crappy oline have made that a distant memory.

[xerxes]

The sad thing is while most of the moves made that offseason were ultimately failures (mainly the Jake extension) at least it was understandable coming off a 12-4 record.

 

What is holding the team back now are the moves made after the 2-14 season. At a point when the organization had the opportunity (and cap space)  to completely hit the reset button a la Indianapolis after the Peyton-less season, Fox was used as a scapegoat (though it was time to move on) and Marty was left to go on a shopping spree which ultimately resulted in simply bringing back the 2-14 team on their now infamous contracts.

 

That offseason was when I joined the Huddle, and I still remember the excitement that we had beaten the Falcons to sign CJ. So naive, we were...

JR gambled that the lockout was going to happen and structured all of the contracts to account for that. Then he gambled that the cap would rise significantly after the lockout (it didn't). 

 

We give Hurney a lot of crap for those contracts, and we should. But ultimately it was marching orders from JR to get the core signed, and the timing meant we didn't stagger the contracts at all. 

[smash_n_dash]

Probably my favorite Panther, due mostly to his smile. If our FO can see how useful he might be even at 30+ years old (see Fred Jackson and frank gore) I'd love to see him for 2-3 more full seasons as a Panther instead of just cutting him without contract talks (Steve Smith). Just dot pay him more than vet minimum but with incentives like if he breaks 1K yards or 10+ TD or something like that added in. IMO he is still better than probably anyone you'd get out of college next year outside the first round.