In three seasons, Lions running back Jahmyr Gibbs has become a force of nature, despite sharing the load with David Montgomery. On Sunday, Gibbs embarks on his role as the unquestioned main cog in the Detroit backfield.<\/p>\n
With a single touchdown against the Saints in the Week 1 game at Ford Field, Gibbs becomes the sixth member of the 50-in-50 club.<\/p>\n
Fifty scrimmage touchdowns in 50 career regular-season games.<\/p>\n
The others to do it were, per NBC Sports research, Jim Brown, Marcus Allen, Chuck Foreman, Larry Johnson, and Steve Van Buren.<\/p>\n
Gibbs already holds the all-time record for total touchdowns in a player\u2019s first three seasons, with 49. Given what he has done and what the Lions expect him to do, his new contract (at $22.5 million per year) could be the best dollar-for-dollar value on a second deal that the NFL has ever seen.<\/p>\n
His 2026 debut will be tucked into the cluster of 1:00 p.m. ET games. Gibbs will have his first shot at showing what he can do as the unquestioned top tailback in Detroit on a national stage in five days, when the Lions face the Bills on the brand-new grass at the brand-new stadium in Buffalo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In three seasons, Lions running back Jahmyr Gibbs has become a force of nature, despite sharing the load…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":889452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-889451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/889452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}