There are so many remarkable facts associated with Jon Cornish’s 2012 regular-season statistics.

Start with the fact that his total of 1,457 yards was good for the Canadian Football League’s rushing title. Cornish becomes the eighth Stamp to win a rushing title as he joins a group that includes Earl Lunsford (1961), Lovell Coleman (1963, 1964), Hugh McKinnis (1970), Willie Burden (1975), James Sykes (1980, 1981), Gary Allen (1986) and Joffrey Reynolds (2008, 2009).

Cornish’s rushing total was also the best in the CFL since 2009, the second-best since 2006 and the seventh-best single-season total in franchise history.

There’s also the significant matter of Cornish setting a record for most rushing yards by a Canadian, erasing a mark that had stood since 1956.

While all those notes are impressive, perhaps nothing is more striking about Cornish’s season than all the ground he covered — literally and figuratively — after a slow start.

There’s no question that the low-water mark of the running back’s season came on July 28 when he had six carries for minus-1 yard in a loss to the BC Lions.

After that Week 5 contest, Cornish was seventh in league rushing — heck, BC quarterback Travis Lulay had just six fewer rushing yards than the Calgary tailback — and trailed the leader by 225 yards. He wound up winning the rushing crown by 180 yards.

Even though he has just one full season as a starter under his belt, Cornish now ranks eighth on the Stampeders’ all-time rushing list with 3,327 yards.