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This is a list of National Football League kickoff returners based on their career kickoff return yards. Brian Mitchell is the all-time leader with 14,014 kickoff return yards over 14 seasons. [1] [2]
List of NFL career kickoff return yards leaders Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title NFL kickoff return yards leaders .
Kickoff return yards Team Ref. 1960: Leon Burton: 862* New York Titans [3] 1961: Frank Jackson: 645 Dallas Texans [4] 1962: Dick Christy: 824 New York Titans [5] 1963: Bobby Jancik: 1,317* Houston Oilers [6] 1964: Odell Barry: 1,245 Denver Broncos [7] 1965: Abner Haynes: 901 Denver Broncos [8] 1966: Bobby Jancik (2) 875 Houston Oilers [9] 1967 ...
In Week 6 of 1996 against the Cincinnati Bengals, he returned 5 kickoffs for 177 yards and 3 punts for 86 yards; the 263 total return yards remains tied with Billy "White Shoes" Johnson for the franchise record as of 2019. When he left the game in 1997, after 12 seasons in pro football, Gray was atop several all-time NFL kick return lists.
In 2001, he was even better. He averaged 26.6 yards per kickoff return, leading the entire NFL in that category. He totaled 1,541 yards in kickoff returns, [5] which broke the team record he had set in 2000. In a game against the Oakland Raiders, he totaled 250 yards in kickoff returns, which set another team record. In the game, he had a 93 ...
* Jaleel McLaughlin is the NCAA's all-time leading rusher. His 8,155 yards rushing were split between Div II Notre Dame (OH) (4,737) [19] and FCS Youngstown State (3,418) and thus are not listed in the categories above. [20]
It was Mitchell's 13th career kick returned for a touchdown, breaking a tie with Eric Metcalf and ranking Mitchell first in the record book. That week, he also set a record for kick return yards in a single game with 206 yards on six kick returns. [2] He then signed with the New York Giants for the 2003 season. [2] He was released before the ...
The list of NCAA major college football yearly punt and kickoff return leaders identifies the major college leaders for each season from 1939 to the present. It includes yearly leaders in four statistical categories: (1) total punt return yardage, and (2) yards per punt return, (3) total kickoff return yardage, and (4) yards per kickoff return.