most kick return touchdowns by a freshman in a season ever

Joshua Youngblood, Marcus Jones and Leeland McElroy are tied for the most kick-return touchdowns by a freshman in a season, with 3 touchdowns.

		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		Marcus Jones M. Jones	3	2017	TROY	13	30	879	29.3	67.6	13	121	9.3	9.3	0
3		Leeland McElroy L. McElroy	3	1993	TA&M	11	15	590	39.3	53.6
4		Jaylin Lucas J. Lucas	2	2022	IND	12	21	591	28.1	49.3	0	0		0.0	0
5		Brian Brewton B. Brewton	2	2021	CONN	9	24	717	29.9	79.7	0	0		0.0	0
6		LaMareon James L. James	2	2021	ODU	13	18	529	29.4	40.7	0	0		0.0	0
7		Mykael Wright M. Wright	2	2019	ORE	11	10	380	38.0	34.5
8		Terrence Horne T. Horne	2	2018	USF	3	6	282	47.0	94.0
9		Juanyeh Thomas J. Thomas	2	2018	GT	12	23	596	25.9	49.7	5	43	8.6	3.6	0
10		Tony Pollard T. Pollard	2	2016	MEM	13	38	1,068	28.1	82.2
11		Adoree' Jackson A. Jackson	2	2014	USC	13	23	684	29.7	52.6	2	12	6.0	0.9	0
12		Devon Edwards D. Edwards	2	2013	DUKE	11	19	562	29.6	51.1
13		Kermit Whitfield K. Whitfield	2	2013	FSU	12	16	600	37.5	50.0
14		R. Jay Soward	2	1996	USC	12	14	440	31.4	36.7	1	-1	-1.0	-0.1	0
15		Tamarick Vanover T. Vanover	2	1992	FSU	11	8	413	51.6	37.5
16		Jerome Ledbetter J. Ledbetter	2	1980	OKLA	11	4	225	56.3	20.5
17		Bryce Noernberg B. Noernberg	1	2025	KSU	7	15	448	29.9	64.0	0	0		0.0	0
18		Dev'ion Reynolds D. Reynolds	1	2025	NIU	8	12	356	29.7	44.5	0	0		0.0	0
19		Cameron Pettaway C. Pettaway	1	2025	BGSU	7	12	396	33.0	56.6	0	0		0.0	0
20		Chris Barnes C. Barnes	1	2025	WAKE	8	6	234	39.0	29.3	0	0		0.0	0
21		Samuel Singleton Jr. S. Singleton Jr.	1	2024	FSU	9	15	373	24.9	41.4	0	0		0.0	0
22		Dylan Riley D. Riley	1	2024	BSU	11	8	237	29.6	21.5	0	0		0.0	0
23		Lloyd Avant L. Avant	1	2024	TLSA	12	14	392	28.0	32.7	0	0		0.0	0
24		Sam Martin S. Martin	1	2023	TEM	12	27	548	20.3	45.7
25		Zylan Perry Z. Perry	1	2023	UL	13	33	840	25.5	64.6	0	0		0.0	0

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

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