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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 longest punt in NFL/AFL play was a 98-yarder by Steve O'Neal of the New York Jets in an American Football League regular season loss to the Denver Broncos at Mile High Stadium on September 21, 1969. [12] Jeff Feagles is the all-time NFL career punts and punt yards leader with 1,713 punts and 71,211 punt yards over 352 games. [13]
Brian Mitchell, who played running back in the NFL for 14 seasons, is the league's career leader in kickoff return yards (14,014) and punt return yards (4,999) by a very wide margin. Red Grange was one of the sport's first iconic faces, breaking onto the national scene with a 95-yard kickoff return against Michigan .
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.
During a Week 3 33–27 road victory against the Seattle Seahawks, he scored his first NFL touchdown on a 53-yard punt return, the NFL's first punt return touchdown of the 2019 season. [13] Harty finished his rookie year as the leader in punt returns, combined returns, and punt return yards and was selected to the Pro Bowl.
Deonte Harty had an electric 96-yard punt return in the fourth quarter that turned Sunday night's regular-season finale against the Miami Dolphins from a tale of the Bills giving away chances with ...
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.
Hill was an elite returner early in his career, averaging 11.4 yards with four touchdowns on 89 career punt returns, mostly with Kansas City. But he has only three punt returns for 7 yards in his ...