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Season Almanac

1957 NFL Season

🏆 Detroit Lions won the NFL Championship

League Leaders

Led multiple categories: Johnny Unitas (Pass Yds, Pass TD) · Jim Brown (Rush Yds, Rush TD) · Raymond Berry (Rec Yds, Rec)

Passing Yards
  1. 1Johnny UnitasBAL2,550
  2. 2Y. A. TittleSF2,157
  3. 3Norm Van BrocklinLAR2,105
Passing Touchdowns
  1. 1Johnny UnitasBAL24
  2. 2Norm Van BrocklinLAR20
  3. 3Y. A. TittleSF13
Rushing Yards
  1. 1Jim BrownCLE942
  2. 2John Henry JohnsonDET621
  3. 3Ollie MatsonARI577
Rushing Touchdowns
  1. 1Jim BrownCLE9
  2. 2Ollie MatsonARI6
  3. 3Y. A. TittleSF6
Receiving Yards
  1. 1Raymond BerryBAL800
  2. 2Lenny MooreBAL687
  3. 3Frank GiffordNYG588
Receiving Touchdowns
  1. 1Lenny MooreBAL7
  2. 2Elroy (Crazylegs) HirschLAR6
  3. 3Raymond BerryBAL6
Receptions
  1. 1Raymond BerryBAL47
  2. 2Frank GiffordNYG41
  3. 3Lenny MooreBAL40
Interceptions
  1. 1Jack ButlerPIT10
  2. 2Jack ChristiansenDET10
  3. 3Bobby DillonGB9

Best Players by VAL

  1. 1Johnny UnitasQB42.2
  2. 2Norm Van BrocklinQB29
  3. 3Y. A. TittleQB28.7
  4. 4Lenny MooreRB18.8
  5. 5Frank GiffordRB15.7
  6. 6Bart StarrQB15.6
  7. 7Ollie MatsonRB13.2
  8. 8Jim BrownRB12.6
  9. 9Jack ButlerDB11.2
  10. 10Jack ChristiansenDB11.2
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Arrivals & Departures

Debuts (by career VAL)

  1. 1Sonny JurgensenQB323
  2. 2Len DawsonQB286.2
  3. 3Jim BrownFB185.3
  4. 4Tommy McDonaldWR126.8
  5. 5Paul HornungRB56.1
  6. 6Jim ParkerG23.5
  7. 7Henry JordanDT0.5

Final season in the corpus

  1. 1Elroy (Crazylegs) HirschRB172.5
  2. 2Frank GatskiC26.8

Teams · 12

TeamRecordResult
Cleveland Browns9-2-1Playoffs
Detroit Lions8-4Won NFL Championship
San Francisco 49ers8-4Playoffs
Baltimore Colts7-53rd
New York Giants7-5Playoffs
Los Angeles Rams6-64th
Pittsburgh Steelers6-63rd
Washington Redskins5-6-1Playoffs
Chicago Bears5-75th
Philadelphia Eagles4-85th
Chicago Cardinals3-96th
Green Bay Packers3-96th