Charles ended the year at 6.38 yards per carry when 6.4 would have tied Jim Brown's record.
Here is the really sad part. Haley never let gave his player a chance to break the record.
I found this story in Kansas City paper.
With 7:55 to play, Charles took a handoff and ran to his right before being stopped for a loss of a yard. He didn’t get another carry. If that play had never happened, Charles would have finished his spectacular season having averaged 6.41 yards per carry, one-hundredth of a yard better than Jim Brown’s 47-year-old record for rushing average.
Instead, that one carry — one that, in another season or in another game, might have been meaningless — will keep Charles at 6.38 yards per carry for the 2010 season.
Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/01/02/2556535/charles-misses-out-on-chance-for.html#ixzz1APbDfzxC
Charles averaged 5.9 last year.
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