Editing Corey Dillon (section)

===Cincinnati Bengals===
The [[Cincinnati Bengals]] selected Dillon in the second round of the [[1997 NFL draft]], the 43rd overall pick.<ref>{{Cite web |title=1997 NFL Draft Listing |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/1997/draft.htm |access-date=2023-03-30 |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |language=en}}</ref> During his first season in 1997, Dillon rushed 39 times for 246 yards and 4 touchdowns in a 41–14 win over the [[Tennessee Titans|Tennessee Oilers]], breaking [[Jim Brown]]'s rookie single-game record that had stood for 40 years.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/05/sports/football-nfl-dillon-runs-over-oilers.html | title=FOOTBALL: N.F.L.; Dillon Runs Over Oilers | agency=[[Associated Press]] | date=December 5, 1997 | work=[[The New York Times]] | access-date=July 19, 2020}}</ref> That game remains a Bengals rookie record for carries, yards, and touchdowns, and franchise record for touchdowns.<ref>As of 2017 off-season.</ref> His 1,129 yards that season is also still a Bengals rookie record. 
For six seasons, Dillon was one of the few bright spots on otherwise struggling Bengals teams. Dillon voiced his frustrations with the team and owner [[Mike Brown (American football executive)|Mike Brown]], stating "we will never win with the Brown family in Cincinnati," after a 2001 game. 
From 1997 to 2002, he rushed for over 1,000 yards each year, and made the [[Pro Bowl]] 3 times from 1999 to 2001. On October 22, 2000, Dillon set an NFL record for most yards rushed in one game (278 yards) against the [[Denver Broncos]], breaking [[Walter Payton]]'s single-game mark of 275 yards set in 1977.{{efn|Almost a year earlier, one month after Payton's death, coach [[Bruce Coslet]] took Dillon out of a 44–28 victory over the [[Cleveland Browns]] in the third quarter, at a point in the game in which he seemed to be on pace to break Payton's record long before game's end. Coslet explained to reporters afterward that Payton had set that record in a 10–7 win.<ref name="1999 Corey Dillon near-record">{{cite news|last=King|first=Peter|author-link=Peter King (sportswriter)|title=Inside the NFL|url=https://www.si.com/vault/2000/01/10/272121/inside-the-nfl|newspaper=[[Sports Illustrated]]|date=January 10, 2000|access-date=June 17, 2019}}</ref>}} That record has since been broken by [[Jamal Lewis (American football)|Jamal Lewis]] (295 yards) on September 14, 2003, and [[Adrian Peterson]] (296 yards) on November 4, 2007. Dillon's mark remains a franchise record for yards and yards-per-carry (12.64).

In 2003, Dillon rushed 138 times for 541 yards and two touchdowns due to injury.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Corey Dillon 2003 Game Log |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/D/DillCo00/gamelog/2003/ |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |language=en}}</ref>