Arizona Cardinals running back James Conner surpassed 1,000 yards rushing in the 2024 season.

He achieved the feat in the first quarter of the Week 16 road test against the Carolina Panthers. Conner needed just 27 yards to reach today’s milestone and did so on a massive 40-yard rush.

With the Rush, Conner joins Ottis Anderson and Edgerring James as the only players in franchise history to reach more than 1,000 rushing yards in consecutive seasons.

Conner was arguably the team’s best player the last two seasons under head coach Jonathan Gannon and offensive coordinator Drew Petzing. In a run-first offense that emphasizes heavy tight end sets and establishing the ground attack, Conner has thrived.

His efforts were recently rewarded with a two-year extension to stay in the desert worth $19 million.

Other milestones Conner can achieve in Week 16:

“You kind of know we have a different variety in the run game and he can really do it all. He can run wide zones, he can run inside the zone, he can run gap plans and he can do it with the weapon, from below, with the pistol. He has a skill set that allows us to score those certain runs,” Gannon previously said at Conner.

“All the different ones. He doesn’t do any of it badly. Then obviously his running style. He is a first class player. He hits, he has good vision, he has good balance, he’s hard to fall, he’s got juice. He’s doing a good job.

On a Cardinals team that had ups and downs all season, Conner was one of the team’s best players.