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This is a list of National Football League punt returners who have led the regular season in punt return yards each year. The record for punt return yards in a season is currently held by Desmond Howard of the Green Bay Packers who had 875 yards in 1996.
The Chicago Bears' final regular season game saw one of the NFL's best plays of the season, as a 94-yard punt return was pure trickery against the Green Bay Packers.
He had a 22-yard punt return — IU’s longest gain of the second half — with less than six minutes to go in the game that set up a critical 41-yard field goal from Nicolas Radicic.
On October 23, 1994, Bailey made the longest punt return in NFL history when he ran 103 yards for a touchdown in a game against the New Orleans Saints. [4] What makes this return stand out is that every single player on the field assumed the ball was going to bounce through the end zone after the punt.
That season, his 31.6 yards per punt return also set a franchise record that still stands. Following his All-pro 1941 season, McAfee entered the Navy in World War II, returning for three games each in 1945 and 1946. He played four more seasons in the NFL, becoming more of a return specialist, especially after a disastrous 11-fumble season in 1948.
Washington, now a WR and punt returner for the Jacksonville Jaguars, ran a 96-yard punt return for a touchdown against the New England Patriots in London this morning, setting the Jaguars ...
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.
Deonte Harty's 96-yard punt return proved to be a decisive blow in the Dolphins squandering an AFC East title and shot at hosting in the NFL playoffs.