most kick return yds by a wide receiver in a single season as a sophomore

Carlos Wiggins has scored the most kick-return yards by a sophomore wide receiver in a season, with 1,303 yards in 2013.

		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		Carlos Wiggins C. Wiggins	1,303	2013	UNM	12	44	29.6	108.6	3	0	0		0.0	0
2		Derrick Mason D. Mason	966	1994	MSU	11	36	26.8	87.8	1	6	48	8.0	4.4	0
3		John Ross J. Ross	938	2014	WASH	13	38	24.7	72.2	2
4		Quadree Henderson Q. Henderson	914	2016	PITT	13	30	30.5	70.3	3	16	252	15.8	19.4	1
5		Janarion Grant J. Grant	908	2014	RUTG	13	36	25.2	69.8	0	6	45	7.5	3.5	0
6		Anthony Ratliff-Williams A. Ratliff-Williams	895	2017	UNC	12	34	26.3	74.6	2
7		Tony Pollard T. Pollard	881	2017	MEM	13	22	40.0	67.8	4	1	2	2.0	0.2	0
8		Charles Nelson C. Nelson	876	2015	ORE	12	33	26.5	73.0	1	0	0		0.0	0
9		Joe Reed J. Reed	861	2017	UVA	12	29	29.7	71.8	2
10		Marcus Simms M. Simms	816	2017	WVU	12	31	26.3	68.0	0	17	99	5.8	8.3	0
11		Nyheim Hines N. Hines	782	2016	NCST	12	32	24.4	65.2	1	0	0		0.0	0
12		Travell Harris T. Harris	773	2019	WSU	13	33	23.4	59.5	0	4	23	5.8	1.8	0
13		Deion Sanders Jr. D. Sanders Jr.	759	2014	SMU	9	37	20.5	84.3	0
14		Kylen Towner K. Towner	758	2015	WKU	13	32	23.7	58.3	1	14	99	7.1	7.6	0
15		Savon Scarver S. Scarver	742	2018	USU	13	22	33.7	57.1	2
16		George McDonald-Ashford G. McDonald-Ashford	736	1996	ILL	11	31	23.7	66.9	0
17		Kendal Smith K. Smith	735	1986	USU	11	37	19.9	66.8	0	31	183	5.9	16.6	0
18		Keegan Wilburn K. Wilburn	734	2022	OHIO	13	31	23.7	56.5	1	0	0		0.0	0
19		Marcus Wall M. Wall	734	1993	UNC	12	31	23.7	61.2	0
20		CJ Sanders	725	2016	ND	12	29	25.0	60.4	2	10	125	12.5	10.4	0
21		Sean Riley S. Riley	710	2017	SYR	12	29	24.5	59.2	0	17	132	7.8	11.0	0
22		Ernest Calhoun E. Calhoun	708	2014	KENT	11	34	20.8	64.4	0	2	26	13.0	2.4	0
23		Ihmir Smith-Marsette I. Smith-Marsette	707	2018	IOWA	12	24	29.5	58.9	0
24		Qadry Ismail Q. Ismail	699	1990	SYR	11	32	21.8	63.5	0
25		Diontae Johnson D. Johnson	683	2017	TOL	14	30	22.8	48.8	1	4	102	25.5	7.3	1

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