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1956 NFL Season

🏆 New York Giants won the NFL Championship

League Leaders

Led multiple categories: Bobby Layne (Pass Yds, Pass TD) · Elroy (Crazylegs) Hirsch (Rec Yds, Rec TD)

Best Players by VAL

  1. 1Johnny UnitasQB31.4
  2. 2Bobby LayneQB29.7
  3. 3Y. A. TittleQB28
  4. 4Frank GiffordRB23.8
  5. 5Lenny MooreRB18.9
  6. 6George BlandaQB18.4
  7. 7Elroy (Crazylegs) HirschRB17.1
  8. 8Norm Van BrocklinQB15.5
  9. 9Hugh McElhennyRB11.5
  10. 10Jack ChristiansenDB9.3
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Arrivals & Departures

Debuts (by career VAL)

  1. 1Johnny UnitasQB383.1
  2. 2Bart StarrQB210
  3. 3Lenny MooreRB205.9
  4. 4Sam HuffLB36.5
  5. 5Forrest GreggOT12.1

Final season in the corpus

  1. 1Dante LavelliTE75.4
  2. 2Tom FearsWR59
  3. 3Walt KieslingG9.3

Teams · 12