It didn't Bucky Irving long to crack one of the more exclusive statistical clubs in Tampa Bay Buccaneers history.
With an 6-yard run against the Carolina Panthers in the second quarter on Sunday, the 2024 fourth-round draft pick out of Oregon surpassed the 1,000-yard rushing mark on the season. He becomes just the ninth player in franchise annals to achieve that feat, and the first since Doug Martin in 2015. The other Bucs to have 1,000-yard rushing seasons, in reverse chronological order, are Martin, LeGarrette Blount, Cadillac Williams, Warrick Dunn, Errict Rhett, Reggie Cobb, James Wilder and Ricky Bell. Dunn, Martin, Rhett and Wilder hit the mark twice each.
The nine years between Martin and Irving's 1,000-yard campaigns is the longest gap between such individual seasons in team history. Ronald Jones got close in 2020 with 978 and Rachaad White even closer with 990 last year, but it was Irving that broke the drought in his very first shot at it.
That also makes Irving the Bucs' first rookie back to hit the 1,000-yard rushing mark since Martin in 2012. Martin was a first-round draft pick, selected 31st overall. The Bucs nabbed Irving with the 125th pick this spring.
Irving is just the sixth NFL rookie in the last five seasons to record a 1,000-yard rushing season, and the first in the last two seasons. Seattle's Kenneth Walker and Atlanta's Tyler Allgeier did it in 2022, Pittsburgh's Najee Harris hit the mark in 2021 and both Jonathan Taylor of the Colts and James Robinson of the Jaguars made it in 2020.
