most kick return tds by a wide receiver in a single season as a freshman

Joshua Youngblood has scored the most kick-return touchdowns by a freshman wide receiver in a season, with 3 touchdowns in 2019.

		NAME	KR TD	SEASON	TM	GP	KR	KR YDS	KR AVG	KR YDS/G	PR	PR YDS	PR AVG	PR YDS/G	PR TD
1		Joshua Youngblood J. Youngblood	3	2019	KSU	11	14	502	35.9	45.6	4	8	2.0	0.7	0
2		Terrence Horne T. Horne	2	2018	USF	3	6	282	47.0	94.0
3		Tony Pollard T. Pollard	2	2016	MEM	13	38	1,068	28.1	82.2
4		Kermit Whitfield K. Whitfield	2	2013	FSU	12	16	600	37.5	50.0
5		R. Jay Soward	2	1996	USC	12	14	440	31.4	36.7	1	-1	-1.0	-0.1	0
6		Tamarick Vanover T. Vanover	2	1992	FSU	11	8	413	51.6	37.5
7		Bryce Noernberg B. Noernberg	1	2025	KSU	6	15	448	29.9	74.7	0	0		0.0	0
8		Chris Barnes C. Barnes	1	2025	WAKE	7	6	234	39.0	33.4	0	0		0.0	0
9		Zachariah Branch Z. Branch	1	2023	USC	12	24	442	18.4	36.8	16	332	20.8	27.7	1
10		Braeden Wisloski B. Wisloski	1	2023	MD	12	16	380	23.8	31.7	0	0		0.0	0
11		Kenny Johnson K. Johnson	1	2023	PITT	12	15	347	23.1	28.9	0	0		0.0	0
12		DeAndre Buchannon D. Buchannon	1	2023	GASO	13	23	604	26.3	46.5	0	0		0.0	0
13		Barion Brown B. Brown	1	2022	UK	13	16	440	27.5	33.8	7	28	4.0	2.2	0
14		Trayvon Rudolph T. Rudolph	1	2021	NIU	14	18	451	25.1	32.2	1	6	6.0	0.4	0
15		Donavon Greene D. Greene	1	2020	WAKE	8	7	238	34.0	29.8
16		Trebor Pena T. Pena	1	2020	SYR	9	7	225	32.1	25.0	0	0		0.0	0
17		Giles Jackson G. Jackson	1	2019	MICH	11	24	622	25.9	56.5	0	0		0.0	0
18		Malik Knowles M. Knowles	1	2019	KSU	11	6	222	37.0	20.2
19		Shedro Louis S. Louis	1	2019	LIB	11	24	662	27.6	60.2	2	-5	-2.5	-0.5	0
20		Tyler Snead T. Snead	1	2019	ECU	12	25	481	19.2	40.1	13	35	2.7	2.9	0
21		Winston Wright Jr. W. Wright Jr.	1	2019	WVU	9	7	193	27.6	21.4
22		Travell Harris T. Harris	1	2018	WSU	13	25	691	27.6	53.2	2	6	3.0	0.5	0
23		Dexter Carter Jr. D. Carter Jr.	1	2017	GASO	3	2	98	49.0	32.7
24		Savon Scarver S. Scarver	1	2017	USU	13	26	625	24.0	48.1	0	0		0.0	0
25		JD Spielman	1	2017	NEB	11	27	669	24.8	60.8	0	0		0.0	0

StatMuse has season-level data for kick-return touchdowns going back to the 1977 season.

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