best punt return average with at least 50 punt returns in a career

Marvin Mims Jr. has gained the most career yards per punt return with 50+ punt returns, with 15.9 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	Marvin Mims Jr. M. Mims Jr.	15.9	76	49	47	1,249	26.6	25.5	1	1,208	24.7	1
2	Ernie Steele E. Steele	14.7	55	69	37	743	20.1	10.8	0	809	11.7	0
3	Marcus Jones M. Jones	14.1	83	50	27	645	23.9	12.9	0	1,172	23.4	3
4	Charley Trippi C. Trippi	13.7	63	99	66	1,457	22.1	14.7	0	864	8.7	2
5	Dick Christy D. Christy	13.5	67	64	117	2,770	23.7	43.3	0	905	14.1	4
6	Billy Grimes B. Grimes	13.2	63	36	67	1,604	23.9	44.6	0	834	23.2	2
7	Jeff Ogden J. Ogden	13.1	57	67	15	317	21.1	4.7	0	749	11.2	1
8	Rashid Shaheed R. Shaheed	13.0	81	53	58	1,449	25.0	27.3	1	1,052	19.8	3
9	Derius Davis D. Davis	12.9	54	45	56	1,395	24.9	31.0	0	697	15.5	1
10	George McAfee G. McAfee	12.8	112	65	18	488	27.1	7.5	1	1,431	22.0	2
11	Ray Mathews R. Mathews	12.8	61	114	42	1,069	25.5	9.4	0	779	6.8	3
12	Jack Christiansen J. Christiansen	12.8	85	89	59	1,329	22.5	14.9	0	1,084	12.2	8
13	Claude Gibson C. Gibson	12.6	110	70	16	268	16.8	3.8	0	1,381	19.7	3
14	Andy Farkas A. Farkas	12.4	59	49	38	984	25.9	20.1	1	731	14.9	1
15	Bill Dudley B. Dudley	12.2	124	90	78	1,743	22.3	19.4	1	1,515	16.8	3
16	Rod Smith R. Smith	12.2	53	183	6	93	15.5	0.5	0	647	3.5	1
17	Pat Studstill P. Studstill	12.1	59	147	75	1,924	25.7	13.1	1	716	4.9	0
18	Rick Upchurch R. Upchurch	12.1	248	119	95	2,355	24.8	19.8	0	3,008	25.3	8
19	Lynn Swann L. Swann	12.1	61	116	3	11	3.7	0.1	0	739	6.4	1
20	Darrell Green D. Green	12.0	51	295	1	9	9.0	0.0	0	611	2.1	0
21	Desmond Howard D. Howard	11.9	244	156	359	7,959	22.2	51.0	0	2,895	18.6	8
22	Devin Duvernay D. Duvernay	11.8	109	91	131	3,340	25.5	36.7	2	1,284	14.1	0
23	Billy Johnson B. Johnson	11.8	282	143	123	2,941	23.9	20.6	2	3,317	23.2	6
24	Devin Hester D. Hester	11.7	315	156	295	7,333	24.9	47.0	5	3,695	23.7	14
25	Mack Herron M. Herron	11.7	84	39	82	1,985	24.2	50.9	1	982	25.2	0

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