Ravens running back Ray Rice has 297 rushing yards and 242 receiving yards through Week 4, meaning he is just barely off the pace of finishing with 1,000 yards both on the ground and through the air. Only Marshall Faulk and Roger Craig have ever accomplished that feat, something Rice says he hopes to accomplish one day.
"I would love to do it,” he said in an interview with Yahoo. “In my career, that would be a great thing to do."
Rice topped 1,000 rushing yards in each of the past two seasons, and with Willis McGahee no longer around to cut into his carries, injury is the only thing that will keep the slippery back from the milestone in 2011.
Getting to 1,000 receiving yards, too, will be the challenge for Rice, who is averaging an eye-popping 15.1 yards per catch. He set career highs for receptions (78) and receiving yards (702) in his Pro Bowl 2009 season, and since then opposing defenses have paid a lot more attention to him when he slips out of the backfield.
That being said, Rice, one of the NFL’s most electrifying runners, feels he is slightly underrated by analysts.
"The league is ever-evolving. If you can only run the ball … to me, that's not being a complete player,” Rice