Following his first NFL season in 1965, Gale Sayers won the Rookie of the Year Award.
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Jim Brown, Jim Taylor, Gale Sayers, Cookie Gilchrist, Jim Nance
That is Hall of Famer Gale Sayers of the Chicago Bears who scored 6 TDs against the San Francisco 49ers on December 12, 1965. He scored 22 TDs in his rookie season which, at the time, was an NFL record.
For the Pro Football Hall of Fame, that is RB Gale Sayers of the Chicago Bears who was inducted in 1977 at the age of 34.
Ricky Watters for the San Francisco 49ers in the '90s