best punt return average with at least 100 punt returns in a career

George McAfee has gained the most career yards per punt return with 100+ punt returns, with 12.8 per return.

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	NAME	PR AVG	PR	GP	KR	KR YDS	KR AVG	KR YDS/G	KR TD	PR YDS	PR YDS/G	PR TD
1	George McAfee G. McAfee	12.8	112	65	18	488	27.1	7.5	1	1,431	22.0	2
2	Claude Gibson C. Gibson	12.6	110	70	16	268	16.8	3.8	0	1,381	19.7	3
3	Bill Dudley B. Dudley	12.2	124	90	78	1,743	22.3	19.4	1	1,515	16.8	3
4	Rick Upchurch R. Upchurch	12.1	248	119	95	2,355	24.8	19.8	0	3,008	25.3	8
5	Desmond Howard D. Howard	11.9	244	156	359	7,959	22.2	51.0	0	2,895	18.6	8
6	Devin Duvernay D. Duvernay	11.8	109	91	131	3,340	25.5	36.7	2	1,284	14.1	0
7	Billy Johnson B. Johnson	11.8	282	143	123	2,941	23.9	20.6	2	3,317	23.2	6
8	Devin Hester D. Hester	11.7	315	156	295	7,333	24.9	47.0	5	3,695	23.7	14
9	Roscoe Parrish R. Parrish	11.6	165	90	33	771	23.4	8.6	0	1,920	21.3	3
10	Bill Thompson B. Thompson	11.6	157	179	46	1,156	25.1	6.5	0	1,814	10.1	0
11	Darrien Gordon D. Gordon	11.5	314	138	5	70	14.0	0.5	0	3,601	26.1	6
12	Gunner Olszewski G. Olszewski	11.4	122	82	67	1,586	23.7	19.3	0	1,386	16.9	2
13	Henry Ellard H. Ellard	11.3	135	228	19	364	19.2	1.6	0	1,527	6.7	4
14	Braxton Berrios B. Berrios	11.3	100	93	94	2,346	25.0	25.2	1	1,130	12.2	0
15	Julian Edelman J. Edelman	11.2	177	137	30	626	20.9	4.6	0	1,986	14.5	4
16	Bob Hayes B. Hayes	11.1	104	132	23	581	25.3	4.4	0	1,158	8.8	3
17	Jermaine Lewis J. Lewis	11.1	295	111	212	4,611	21.8	41.5	0	3,282	29.6	6
18	Travis Benjamin T. Benjamin	11.0	112	111	21	509	24.2	4.6	0	1,236	11.1	4
19	Louis Lipps L. Lipps	11.0	112	110	14	246	17.6	2.2	0	1,234	11.2	3
20	Bobby Joe Edmonds B. Joe Edmonds	11.0	134	65	173	3,646	21.1	56.1	0	1,471	22.6	1
21	Mel Gray M. Gray	10.9	252	169	421	10,250	24.3	60.7	6	2,753	16.3	3
22	Speedy Duncan S. Duncan	10.9	202	115	180	4,539	25.2	39.5	0	2,201	19.1	4
23	Vai Sikahema V. Sikahema	10.9	292	118	235	4,933	21.0	41.8	0	3,169	26.9	4
24	Winslow Oliver W. Oliver	10.8	126	64	35	659	18.8	10.3	0	1,364	21.3	2
25	Brian Mitchell B. Mitchell	10.8	463	223	607	14,014	23.1	62.8	4	4,999	22.4	9

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