Terrelle Pryor starts Raiders-Steelers game with longest QB run in NFL history

Terrelle Pryor opened the game against the Steelers with a bang. (Jeff Chiu/AP) Oakland Raiders quarterback Terrelle Pryor has surprised many observers with

Doug Farrar | Oct 27, 2013

Terrelle Pryor starts Raiders-Steelers game with longest QB run in NFL history /

Terrelle Pryor opened the game against the Steelers with a bang. (Jeff Chiu/AP)

Oakland Raiders quarterback Terrelle Pryor has surprised many observers with his throwing ability this year, but most people already knew that he could run. Through five games in the 2013 season, the third-year man from Ohio State had already rushed for 289 yards on 44 carries, putting him 22 yards ahead of Darren McFadden for the team lead.

Now, McFadden will have to go quite a way to overtake Pryor.

(GIF via Bleacher Report)

On the first play from scrimmage in the Raiders' game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Pryor took a read-option play to the right, blew through a well-blocked and quite confused Steelers defense, and bailed away for a 93-yard touchdown. That one run made Pryor the rushing leader on the day so far and ranked as both the longest run in Raiders history and the longest run by a QB ever in NFL history.

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Published Oct 27, 2013

DOUG FARRAR

SI.com contributing NFL writer and Seattle resident Doug Farrar started writing about football locally in 2002, and became Football Outsiders' West Coast NFL guy in 2006. He was fascinated by FO's idea to combine Bill James with Dr. Z, and wrote for the site for six years. He wrote a game-tape column called "Cover-2" for a number of years, and contributed to six editions of "Pro Football Prospectus" and the "Football Outsiders Almanac." In 2009, Doug was invited to join Yahoo Sports' NFL team, and covered Senior Bowls, scouting combines, Super Bowls, and all sorts of other things for Yahoo Sports and the Shutdown Corner blog through June, 2013. Doug received the proverbial offer he couldn't refuse from SI.com in 2013, and that was that. Doug has also written for the Seattle Times, the Washington Post, the New York Sun, FOX Sports, ESPN.com, and ESPN The Magazine. He also makes regular appearances on several local and national radio shows, and has hosted several podcasts over the years. He counts Dan Jenkins, Thomas Boswell, Frank Deford, Ralph Wiley, Peter King, and Bill Simmons as the writers who made him want to do this for a living. In his rare off-time, Doug can be found reading, hiking, working out, searching for new Hendrix, Who, and MC5 bootlegs, and wondering if the Mariners will ever be good again.