Tennessee football running back Jaylen Wright’s incredible 2023 regular season continued Saturday, as he reached a milestone against Vanderbilt.
Wright entered the game needing only 62 yards to reach 1,000 yards, and he hit in the third quarter with a 14-yard run on Tennessee’s first offensive play of the second half.
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Wright becomes the 18th Tennessee running back to rush for 1,000 yards in a season and the first to do so in eight years, as Jalen Hurd last did it in 2015.
Additionally, Wright’s season marks the 19th time a Tennessee running back has rushed for over 1,000 yards.
The full list of Tennessee running backs to rush for 1,000 yards along with the respective season is below:
- Travis Stephens (1,464) – 2001
- Jay Graham (1,438) – 1995
- Jamal Lewis (1,364) – 1997
- Montario Hardesty (1,345) – 2009
- Travis Henry (1,314) – 2000
- Johnnie Jones (1,290) – 1984
- Jalen Hurd (1,288) – 2015
- Tony Thompson (1,261) – 1990
- Chuck Webb (1,236) – 1989
- Reggie Cobb (1,197) – 1987
- Arian Foster (1,193) – 2007
- Charlie Garner (1,161) – 1993
- Rajion Neal (1,124) – 2013
- Johnnie Jones (1,116) – 1983
- Gerald Riggs Jr. (1,107) – 2004
- Tauren Poole (1,034) – 2010
- James Stewart (1,028) – 1994
- Jaylen Wright (1,013) – 2023 *will be updated*
- Cedric Houston (1,005) – 2004
