bears receiving leaders per year in 1980s

From 1980 through 1989, Willie Gault had the most yards on receptions for the Bears in his rookie season in 1983, with 836 yards.

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	NAME	REC YDS	SEASON	TM	GP	REC	AVG	REC YDS/G	REC TD	RUSH YDS	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD
1	Willie Gault W. Gault	836	1983	CHI	16	40	20.9	52.3	8	31	4	7.8	1.9	0
2	Willie Gault W. Gault	818	1986	CHI	16	42	19.5	51.1	5	79	8	9.9	4.9	0
3	Willie Gault W. Gault	705	1987	CHI	12	35	20.1	58.8	7	16	2	8.0	1.3	0
4	Dennis McKinnon D. McKinnon	704	1988	CHI	15	45	15.6	46.9	3	25	3	8.3	1.7	1
5	Willie Gault W. Gault	704	1985	CHI	16	33	21.3	44.0	1	18	5	3.6	1.1	0
6	James Scott J. Scott	696	1980	CHI	15	36	19.3	46.4	3	0	0		0.0	0
7	Walter Payton W. Payton	607	1983	CHI	16	53	11.5	37.9	2	1,421	314	4.5	88.8	6
8	Emery Moorehead E. Moorehead	597	1983	CHI	16	42	14.2	37.3	3	6	5	1.2	0.4	0
9	Willie Gault W. Gault	587	1984	CHI	16	34	17.3	36.7	6	0	0		0.0	0
10	Ken Margerum K. Margerum	584	1981	CHI	16	39	15.0	36.5	1	11	1	11.0	0.7	0
11	Dennis McKinnon D. McKinnon	555	1985	CHI	14	31	17.9	39.6	7	0	1	0.0	0.0	0
12	Brian Baschnagel B. Baschnagel	554	1981	CHI	16	34	16.3	34.6	3	10	1	10.0	0.6	0
13	Ron Morris R. Morris	498	1988	CHI	16	28	17.8	31.1	4	40	3	13.3	2.5	0
14	Emery Moorehead E. Moorehead	497	1984	CHI	16	29	17.1	31.1	1	-2	1	-2.0	-0.1	0
15	Ron Morris R. Morris	486	1989	CHI	16	30	16.2	30.4	1	-14	1	-14.0	-0.9	0
16	Dennis Gentry D. Gentry	486	1988	CHI	16	33	14.7	30.4	3	86	7	12.3	5.4	1
17	Walter Payton W. Payton	483	1985	CHI	16	49	9.9	30.2	2	1,551	324	4.8	96.9	9
18	Emery Moorehead E. Moorehead	481	1985	CHI	15	35	13.7	32.1	1	0	0		0.0	0
19	Neal Anderson N. Anderson	467	1987	CHI	11	47	9.9	42.5	3	586	129	4.5	53.3	3
20	Rickey Watts R. Watts	465	1981	CHI	12	27	17.2	38.8	3	0	0		0.0	0
21	Dennis Gentry D. Gentry	463	1989	CHI	16	39	11.9	28.9	1	106	17	6.2	6.6	0
22	Rickey Watts R. Watts	444	1980	CHI	15	22	20.2	29.6	2	-16	1	-16.0	-1.1	0
23	Neal Anderson N. Anderson	434	1989	CHI	16	50	8.7	27.1	4	1,275	274	4.7	79.7	11
24	Dennis McKinnon D. McKinnon	431	1984	CHI	12	29	14.9	35.9	3	12	2	6.0	1.0	0
25	Keith Ortego K. Ortego	430	1986	CHI	16	23	18.7	26.9	2	0	0		0.0	0

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