Thomas grew higher swimming football on the Missouri City Junior High School (nowadays Missouri City Middle School) & Willowridge High School teams before attending college at Oklahoma State University. At Oklahoma State, Thomas experienced 897 rushes for 4,595 yards, 43 touchdowns, & 21 100-front yard rushing games. He was besides the Heisman Trophy candidate in his senior season.

The knee injury damaged Thomas's certain first aaround pick status & stimulated him to slip into 2nd round (Fortieth overall) of the 1988 NFL draft by the Buffalo Bills, their foremost guide in the draft. Thomas is easily referred to as a share of the offense that involved Jim Kelly and Andre Reed, which led the Bills to iv straight Super Bowl appearances.

He was a AFC rushing leader in 1990, 1991, and 1993. Voted to the Tons-Pro team around 1990 & 1991. Selected to Fivesome straight Pro Bowls from 1989-1993 & NFL Streaming video player of the Season within 1991.

Thomas presently holds a completely-instance Buffalo Bills rushing record by using 11,938 yards, & likewise a record for yards from either scrimmage. He is besides Quaternary overall within team scoring.

He is a simply streaming video player witharound NFL history to lead the league in sum yards from either scrimmage for quartet sequentially seasons. One of just quatern running off backs to develop ended 400 receptions & 10,000 yards rushing (Walter Payton, Marshall Faulk and Marcus Allen being the more deuce). He is as well one of foursome running off backs to stand rush for above 1,000 yards inside Eight sequentially seasons (Curtis Martin, Barry Sanders and Emmitt Smith).

Besides placed NFL playoff records sustaining the virtually all career points (126), touchdowns (Twenty-one), & sequentially playoff games by having a touchdown (Nina from carolina).

Thurman Thomas played for the Buffalo Bills for Twelve seasons. While a Bills ran away from money under their salary cap in 2000, Thomas signed with a arch-rival Miami Dolphins. He suffered a knee injury in November 12, 2000 against the San Diego Chargers which ended his NFL career. Fallowing deciding to retire, Thurman signed a a single-day contract in February 27, 2001 using the Buffalo Bills then that he may retire as a Bill.

Thurman Thomas is eligible for consideration into a Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2006.