Trevor Insley has the most yards on receptions in a season, with 2,060 yards in 1999.

Interpreted as:

most receiving yards by a player in a season cfb

	NAME	REC YDS	SEASON	TM	GP	REC	TRG	AVG	REC YDS/G	REC TD	RUSH YDS	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD
1	Trevor Insley T. Insley	2,060	1999	NEV	11	134		15.4	187.3	13	5	1	5.0	0.5	0
2	Troy Edwards T. Edwards	1,996	1998	LT	12	140		14.3	166.3	27	227	21	10.8	18.9	3
3	Michael Crabtree M. Crabtree	1,962	2007	TTU	13	134		14.6	150.9	22
4	Jordan White J. White	1,911	2011	WMU	13	140		13.7	147.0	17	27	1	27.0	2.1	0
5	Jerreth Sterns J. Sterns	1,902	2021	WKU	14	150	194	12.7	135.9	17	17	5	3.4	1.2	0
6	Greg Salas G. Salas	1,889	2010	HAW	14	119		15.9	134.9	14
7	DeVonta Smith D. Smith	1,856	2020	ALA	13	117	148	15.9	142.8	23	6	4	1.5	0.5	1
8	Alex Van Dyke A. Van Dyke	1,854	1995	NEV	11	129		14.4	168.5	16	6	1	6.0	0.5	0
9	Terrance Williams T. Williams	1,832	2012	BAY	13	97		18.9	140.9	12	14	2	7.0	1.1	0
10	Trent Taylor T. Taylor	1,803	2016	LT	14	136	176	13.3	128.8	12
11	J.R. Tolver	1,785	2002	SDSU	13	128		13.9	137.3	13	40	6	6.7	3.1	1
12	Justin Blackmon J. Blackmon	1,782	2010	OKST	12	111		16.1	148.5	20	77	4	19.3	6.4	1
13	Danario Alexander D. Alexander	1,781	2009	MIZ	13	113		15.8	137.0	14	10	1	10.0	0.8	0
14	Ja'Marr Chase J. Chase	1,780	2019	LSU	14	84	125	21.2	127.1	20	5	1	5.0	0.4	0
15	Howard Twilley H. Twilley	1,779	1965	TLSA	10	134		13.3	177.9	16
16	Freddie Barnes F. Barnes	1,770	2009	BGSU	13	155		11.4	136.2	19	78	25	3.1	6.0	2
17	Patrick Edwards P. Edwards	1,752	2011	HOU	14	89		19.7	125.1	20	6	2	3.0	0.4	0
18	Rashard Higgins R. Higgins	1,750	2014	CSU	12	96	130	18.2	145.8	17
19	Zay Jones Z. Jones	1,746	2016	ECU	12	158	222	11.1	145.5	8	24	4	6.0	2.0	0
20	Josh Reed J. Reed	1,740	2001	LSU	12	94		18.5	145.0	7	7	2	3.5	0.6	0
21	Taywan Taylor T. Taylor	1,730	2016	WKU	14	98	149	17.7	123.6	17	36	6	6.0	2.6	0
22	Brandin Cooks B. Cooks	1,730	2013	ORST	13	128	167	13.5	133.1	16	217	32	6.8	16.7	2
23	Amari Cooper A. Cooper	1,727	2014	ALA	14	124	177	13.9	123.4	16	23	5	4.6	1.6	0
24	Marqise Lee M. Lee	1,721	2012	USC	13	118		14.6	132.4	14	106	13	8.2	8.2	0
25	Davante Adams D. Adams	1,719	2013	FRES	13	131	118	13.1	132.2	24	0	0		0.0	0