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Emmit Smith

Career Highlights: Emmitt Smith is one of the all-time great running backs in NFL history amassing an NFL record 18,355 rushing yards, an NFL record 164 rushing touchdowns, four NFL rushing titles, three Super Bowl titles and a league (1993) and Super Bowl (XXVIII) MVP award...A 15-year NFL veteran, Smith was selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2010…He is the only running back to ever win a Super Bowl championship, the NFL Most Valuable Player award, the NFL rushing crown, and the Super Bowl Most Valuable Player award all in the same season (1993)…Smith spent his last two seasons with the Arizona Cardinals but retired as a Dallas Cowboy in 2005 after spending 13 years with the team…Smith eclipsed Walter Payton’s 18-year old NFL rushing record on Oct. 27, 2002…Following the 2001 season, he became the first player in NFL history to rush for 1,000 yards in 11 consecutive seasons and the first player with 11 1,000-yard seasons…He was the first player in NFL history to post five consecutive seasons with over 1,400 yards rushing…Other NFL records Smith holds include: 78 regular season 100-yard rushing games, 4,409 carries, 1,586 post-season rushing yards, 19 post-season rushing touchdowns, nine consecutive post-season games with a rushing touchdown and seven post-season 100-yard rushing games…Smith was selected to the Pro Bowl nine times…He was also named to the NFL’s All-Decade team at running back for the 1990’s…He earned NFL Rookie of the Year honors in 1990…He was enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame in July 2007…In the fall of 2006, Smith won the third season of Dancing with the Stars with professional dancer Cheryl Burke…Smith is the Majority Partner and Co-Chairman of ESmith Legacy, Inc., a Dallas-based commercial real estate development and investment company founded to focus and deliver real estate solutions and services for both general and minority market development.

Updated: June, 2011

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