Record Setting Browns
Cleveland Browns special-teams ace Joshua Cribbs has returned two kickoffs for touchdowns during Sunday’s road game against the Kansas City Chiefs, breaking and then extending the NFL career record.
After his 100-yard return in the first quarter set the league record, Cribbs sped 103 yards for another touchdown in the second quarter.
Cribbs’ first kickoff-return TD of the game was the seventh of his five-year NFL career and broke the record that he had shared with five other players — Dante Hall, Gale Sayers, Mel Gray, Travis Williams and Ollie Matson.
On his first return, Cribbs broke free from at least six Chiefs players who got their hand on him. On his second, Cribbs took the ball 3 yards deep in the end zone, cut left, then right and was hardly touched.
Cribbs’ 103-yard return was 1 yard short of the Browns’ record. His two kickoff-return TDs in a game tied the league record.
Cribbs came into the season with five kickoff returns for scores, then added a 98-yard return for a TD during an Oct. 18 game against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Alos, Cleveland Browns running back Jerome Harrison has broken Jim Brown’s single-game team rushing record.
Harrison finished with 286 yards with three touchdowns on 34 carries in Sunday’s game against the Kansas City Chiefs. He came in with 301 rushing yards for the season. His career high before Sunday was 121 yards this season against the Cincinnati Bengals.
Brown had 237 yards twice, in 1961 against the Philadelphia Eagles and in 1957 against the Los Angeles Rams.
Harrison’s mark is also the third-best single-game mark in league history, trailing only the 296 yards posted by Minnesota’s Adrian Peterson (vs. San Diego, 2007) and the 295 yards by Jamal Lewis with the Ravens (vs. Cleveland, 2003).
Earlier in Sunday’s game, Cleveland’s Joshua Cribbs broke the NFL record with his seventh career kickoff return for a touchdown. He later added an eighth TD return.
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