Ezekiel Elliott's 546 rushing yards are more than 23 NFL teams have total

Elliott has been explosive over the last three weeks to take over the NFL's lead in rushing yards

Five weeks into the NFL season, Dallas Cowboys rookie running back Ezekiel Elliott has rushed for a league-leading 546 yards. On the strength of back-to-back-to-back 130-plus yard performances, Elliott is up to 5.0 yards per carry and 109.2 yards per game.

He's doing things that haven't been done by any rookie running back in Cowboys history (100-plus yards in three straight games) and have only been done by two rookie running backs in NFL history (130-plus in three straight games). Not only that, but he is out-rushing entire teams.

Keep it up, @EzekielElliott! 👏 pic.twitter.com/jV1YKiPpSQ

— NFL (@NFL) October 10, 2016

It should be noted that three of those 23 teams (the Panthers, Packers, and Eagles) have only played four games to Elliott's five and thus are averaging more rushing yards per game than Elliott, but still: he's run for more yards than 23 teams! (And more per game than 20 teams!) Let's take a look at a chart.

RK	TEAM	ATT	YDS	YDS/A	LONG	TD	YDS/G
1	Dallas	169	776	4.6	60	11	155.2
2	Tennessee	148	743	5.0	67	4	148.6
3	Buffalo	134	686	5.1	53	5	137.2
4	New England	165	640	3.9	41	6	128.0
5	Cleveland	126	624	5.0	85	4	124.8
6	Atlanta	139	620	4.5	48	6	124.0
7	San Francisco	164	607	3.7	34	9	121.4
8	Oakland	120	596	5.0	75	6	119.2
9	Arizona	133	575	4.3	45	6	115.0
10	Ezekiel Elliott	109	546	5.0	60	5	109.2
11	NY Jets	125	522	4.2	28	3	104.4
12	Pittsburgh	126	510	4.0	44	3	102.0
13	Houston	134	509	3.8	17	0	101.8
14	Denver	139	507	3.6	28	4	101.4
15	Baltimore	121	495	4.1	35	3	99.0
16	Carolina	112	487	4.3	25	2	121.8
17	Philadelphia	117	474	4.1	30	5	118.5
18	Chicago	100	454	4.5	57	2	90.8
19	San Diego	124	452	3.6	24	6	90.4
20	Indianapolis	112	450	4.0	21	4	90.0
21	Detroit	115	449	3.9	28	2	89.8
22	Green Bay	104	448	4.3	31	2	112.0
23	Washington	105	432	4.1	25	3	86.4
24	Cincinnati	122	419	3.4	50	3	83.8
25	NY Giants	110	418	3.8	25	3	83.6
26	Los Angeles	133	409	3.1	22	3	81.8
27	Seattle	113	372	3.3	41	2	93.0
28	Miami	91	362	4.0	17	4	72.4
29	Kansas City	83	361	4.3	46	2	90.3
30	Minnesota	144	353	2.5	25	3	70.6
31	Tampa Bay	97	330	3.4	24	2	82.5
32	New Orleans	92	327	3.6	17	4	81.8
33	Jacksonville	87	301	3.5	24	2	75.3

That seems pretty good! How does it compare to previous seasons?

The leading rusher in the NFL in 2015 was Adrian Peterson, who ran for 1,485 yards. That total was more than seven teams. In 2014, the leading rusher was DeMarco Murray (1,845 yards), who out-rushed 20 teams. LeSeason McCoy led the NFL with 1,607 rushing yards in 2013, surpassing the total of 11 teams.

Since the NFL expanded to 32 teams back in 2002, the NFL's leading rusher has, on average, out-rushed 14.9 teams. The only times anyone rushed for more yards than 23 or more teams were 2003 and 2013, when Jamal Lewis and Adrian Peterson, respectively, rushed for over 2,000 yards and each personally gained more than 24 teams.