most kick return yards in a cfb season

Isaiah Burse has the most kick-return yards in a season, with 1,606 yards in 2011.

Interpreted as:

most kick return yards by a player in a cfb season

		NAME	KR YDS	SEASON	TM	GP	KR	KR AVG	KR YDS/G	KR TD	PR	PR YDS	PR AVG	PR YDS/G	PR TD
1		Isaiah Burse I. Burse	1,606	2011	FRES	13	75	21.4	123.5	0
2		Kerwynn Williams K. Williams	1,444	2010	USU	12	53	27.2	120.3	1	4	37	9.3	3.1	0
3		Taveon Rogers T. Rogers	1,410	2010	NMSU	12	52	27.1	117.5	0
4		Damaris Johnson D. Johnson	1,382	2008	TLSA	14	54	25.6	98.7	1	6	23	3.8	1.6	0
5		Taveon Rogers T. Rogers	1,318	2011	NMSU	12	51	25.8	109.8	3
6		Torrey Smith T. Smith	1,309	2009	MD	12	51	25.7	109.1	2
7		Alan Lamar A. Lamar	1,307	2021	ARST	12	54	24.2	108.9	2
8		Rob Kelley R. Kelley	1,305	2011	TULN	13	64	20.4	100.4	0
9		Carlos Wiggins C. Wiggins	1,303	2013	UNM	12	44	29.6	108.6	3	0	0		0.0	0
10		Max Suter M. Suter	1,299	2007	SYR	12	51	25.5	108.3	1
11		Michael Grandberry M. Grandberry	1,286	2007	MEM	13	59	21.8	98.9	0
12		Mardy Gilyard M. Gilyard	1,281	2009	CIN	13	42	30.5	98.5	2	16	202	12.6	15.5	1
13		Josh Smith J. Smith	1,276	2008	COLO	12	50	25.5	106.3	1	28	292	10.4	24.3	0
14		Kevin Robinson K. Robinson	1,260	2007	USU	12	43	29.3	105.0	3	20	378	18.9	31.5	1
15		Scott Wesley S. Wesley	1,248	2004	ARMY	11	54	23.1	113.5	1	3	20	6.7	1.8	0
16		William White W. White	1,239	2002	ARMY	11	55	22.5	112.6	0	1	10	10.0	0.9	0
17		Mike Edwards M. Edwards	1,215	2012	HAW	12	40	30.4	101.3	3
18		Deonce Whitaker D. Whitaker	1,214	1998	SJSU	12	51	23.8	101.2	0	2	19	9.5	1.6	0
19		Aregeros Turner A. Turner	1,207	2015	NIU	14	45	26.8	86.2	2
20		Victor Bolden V. Bolden	1,201	2013	ORST	13	57	21.1	92.4	1	0	0		0.0	0
21		Isaiah Rodgers I. Rodgers	1,195	2019	MASS	12	53	22.5	99.6	0	11	120	10.9	10.0	1
22		Tyron Carrier T. Carrier	1,174	2010	HOU	12	50	23.5	97.8	1
23		Cyrus Gray C. Gray	1,169	2008	TAMU	12	49	23.9	97.4	1
24		Chris Owusu C. Owusu	1,167	2009	STAN	13	37	31.5	89.8	3
25		Deante' Purvis D. Purvis	1,165	2009	UNLV	12	50	23.3	97.1	1

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

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