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Detroit Lions' Kerryon Johnson on pace to rush for 1,000 yards: ‘It’d be huge’

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Debating how the Lions stack up in the NFC North, analyzing the offense and defense, and a key vs. the Packers, Oct. 9, 2019. Dave Birkett and Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press

A hundred yards. A thousand yards.

These are the benchmarks by which NFL running backs measure themselves in a game and over a season.

Detroit Lions running back Kerryon Johnson accepts and embraces this. He finally breathed life into the Lions moribund run game last season when he became the team's first running back to rush for 100 yards in a game since Reggie Bush in 2013.