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Most punt returns, lifetime: 264; Most punt return yards, lifetime: 3,241 yards [140] Most punt return yards, season: 651 yards (2007) Most punt return yards, game: 152 yards, at Arizona Cardinals, October 16, 2006 [140] Highest average, yards per punt return, season [min. 15 returns]: 17.1 (2010) Hester returned 33 punts for 564 yards.
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.
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]
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.
Devin Hester, the first and only return specialist inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, fielding a punt during special teams practice at the Chicago Bears' 2007 training camp. A return specialist or kick returner is a player on the special teams unit of a gridiron football team who specializes in returning punts and kickoffs.
Howard totaled a Super Bowl record 90 punt return yards and 154 kickoff return yards with one touchdown; his 244 all-purpose yards also tied a Super Bowl record. His performance won him the Super Bowl MVP award, making Howard the only player to ever win the award based solely on a special teams performance. His kickoff return touchdown in the ...
In 2013, Austin had the longest punt return of the season at 98 yards. He returned at least one punt for a touchdown in each of his first three seasons. Austin's prowess as a special teamer tailed ...
He became the first player in NFL history with a punt return touchdown and a kick return touchdown in the same postseason game. He had 256 total punt and kick return yards but the Broncos lost, 38-35 in double overtime. [25] In the 2013 season, Holliday returned a punt 81 yards for a touchdown in week 2 against the New York Giants.