Honors
- First American Football League player to gain over 1,000 yards in a season (14 games, 1,096 yards in 1962)
- Previously held the American professional football record for most yards rushing in a game, 243 yards vs. the New York Jets, on December 8, 1963.
- His number 34 has been unofficially set aside by the Buffalo Bills, to honor both him and Thurman Thomas, who also wore the number.
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