{"id":655206,"date":"2026-01-05T06:18:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T06:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/655206\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T06:18:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T06:18:21","slug":"bills-rb-james-cook-iii-wins-2025-nfl-rushing-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/655206\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills RB James Cook III wins 2025 NFL rushing title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following Sunday Night Football, Buffalo Bills running back James Cook III officially earned the NFL&#8217;s 2025 rushing title.<\/p>\n<p>Cook finished the regular season with 307 carries for 1,621 yards, claiming the top spot in rushing yards in the league. He also had 12 rushing touchdowns over the season.<\/p>\n<p>Though he wasn&#8217;t 100 percent sure at the time after the Jets game if he won the title or not, Cook talked about how important a title like that is for all running backs across the league.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It means a lot. Just something nobody in my family has done, just nothing somebody has done here [with the Bills] in a long time. So, it&#8217;d be special,&#8221; Cook said. &#8220;As a running back, that&#8217;s everybody&#8217;s goal just to win the rushing title.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following Sunday Night Football, Buffalo Bills running back James Cook III officially earned the NFL&#8217;s 2025 rushing title.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[215,214,53,2086,7,3027,199,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-655206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-bills","9":"tag-buffalo","10":"tag-buffalo-bills","11":"tag-buffalobills","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-james-cook","14":"tag-news-announcements","15":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115841040644392525","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}