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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]
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
NFL kickoff return yards leaders may refer to: List of NFL annual kickoff return yards leaders; List of NFL career kickoff return yards leaders
Kick return yards and punt return yards result from voluntary change in possession and most of the others result from involuntary forms of change in possession known as turnovers. Often kick return and punt return statistics are aggregated. and sometimes they are added to yards from scrimmage to yield all-purpose yards .
Most kickoff return yards gained, rookie season: Noland Smith, 1,148 (1967) [170] Most kickoff returns yards gained, game : Jon Vaughn , 251 (1994) [ 171 ] Highest kickoff return average, career (min. 50 kickoff returns) : Knile Davis , 27.8 [ 172 ]
Mitchell is the NFL's second all-time leader in total yardage, second only to Jerry Rice with 23,330 yards, thanks in large part to his 14,014 yards from kickoff returns and his 4,999 punt return yards. Both are NFL records, and his 875 postseason kickoff return yards are a record as well.
Jenkins was limited by injuries in 2002, but still managed to return 40 kickoffs for 925 yards (an average of 23.1 yards per return). In just three seasons, Jenkins had become the Chargers' all-time leader in kickoff return yards with 3,997. In 2003, Jenkins signed a free agent contract with the Raiders.
At Santa Ana, he rushed for 1,110 yards with 19 TDs to earn Little All-American honors and was on a Junior Rose Bowl squad. [3] Carmichael then played at the University of Southern California (USC). As a Trojan, he was a three-year letter winner (1950-51-52), leading the team in rushing as a sophomore and in kick returns as a senior. [ 3 ]