6B THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
SPORTS
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7.2005
▼ NFL
Johnson steals spotlight in Holmes' absence
BY DOUG TUCKER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Want a great running back?
Just put Priest Holmes on your roster and sit back and wait. Great ones follow Holmes everywhere he goes.
He was an established collegiate star at Texas when Ricky Williams showed up and stole the spotlight.
A few years later at Baltimore, Jamal Lewis quickly beat Holmes out of his job and led the league one season with a whopping 2.066 vards.
So Holmes again went looking for a home. He found one in Kansas City and wound up scoring an NFL-record 27 touchdowns in 2003.
But then the Chiefs drafted running back Larry Johnson.
Since Holmes went out for the year with head and neck trauma, Johnson has rushed for more than 100 yards five straight weeks and helped propel the Chiefs into the playoff chase.
The past three games, starting with a team-record 211-yard effort at Houston, Johnson has amassed 470 yards.
After spending the first half the season sharing carries with Holmes, Johnson has rocketed to sixth among the league's top rushers with 1,108 yards. His 5-yard per-carry average is exceeded by only one of the top 20
With a tough and angry running style that seems to reflect his personality, the Penn State product has led the NFL since Nov. 1, with 709 vards.
rushers.
A rare combination of power and speed, Johnson seems to have added the one ingredient he had been missing: cuming.
"There's been some unbelievable (running backs) — Gale Sayers, Marshall Faulk. This guy is, I think, going to go into that category one day," coach Dick Vermeil said Tuesday.
"I think he could become a dominating type player," Vermeil said, "because of the physicalness within his framework. And he has great stamina."
Ed Zurga/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry Johnson (27) makes his way around Denver Broncos' Ian Gold for a short gain in the first quarter Sunday. Johnson rushed for 140 yards and had two touchdowns in the Chiefs' 31-27 victory.
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