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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 ]
Kevin Kelly and the 2007 Penn State Nittany Lions football team kicks the ball off after scoring a touchdown in their season opening game. A kickoff is a method of starting a drive in gridiron football. Additionally, it may refer to a kickoff time, the scheduled time of the first kickoff of a game. Typically, a kickoff consists of one team ...
The NFL’s new kickoff rule did what it was implemented to do in the preseason. Nearly 300 kickoffs were returned in the preseason, a 70.5% return rate that was the highest since 2014.
The NFL shared that 70.5% of the kickoffs across 49 preseason games were returned, compared to 54.8% in last year's NFL preseason. There also were 18 returns of more than 40 yards, the most in 10 ...
Season Player 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
Cowboys WR KaVontae Turpin made one of the best plays of the 2024 NFL season on Sunday when he turned a spin move into a 99-yard kick return TD.
Most combined kick returns, game: 13; Stump Mitchell on October 18, 1981 (6 punt, 7 kickoff) and Ronnie Harris on December 5, 1993 (10 punt, 3 kickoff) [1]: s-21 Kick/punt return yards [ edit ]
Kickoff returns are returning to the NFL. Team owners on Tuesday approved a new rule that will take what essentially had become “a dead play” and make it an integral part of the game again ...