fewest games to reach 8500 receiving yards

Calvin Johnson had the fewest games with more than 0 games played and 8,500+ receiving yards, with 135 games.

Interpreted as:

fewest regular-season games by a player to reach 8500 or more receiving yards

	NAME	GP	REC YDS	REC	TRG	AVG	REC YDS/G	REC TD	RUSH YDS	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD
1	Calvin Johnson C. Johnson	135	11,619	731	1,315	15.9	86.1	83	167	19	8.8	1.2	1
2	Lance Alworth L. Alworth	136	10,266	542		18.9	75.5	85	129	24	5.4	0.9	2
3	Terry Glenn T. Glenn	137	8,823	593	772	14.9	64.4	44	139	20	7.0	1.0	1
4	Demaryius Thomas D. Thomas	143	9,763	724	1,184	13.5	68.3	63	6	3	2.0	0.0	0
5	Rob Gronkowski R. Gronkowski	143	9,286	621	961	15.0	64.9	92	2	1	2.0	0.0	1
6	Tyreek Hill T. Hill	145	11,363	819	1,201	13.9	78.4	83	819	114	7.2	5.6	7
7	T.Y. Hilton	146	9,812	638	1,085	15.4	67.2	53	55	9	6.1	0.4	0
8	Antonio Brown A. Brown	146	12,291	928	1,406	13.2	84.2	83	128	35	3.7	0.9	0
9	Marques Colston M. Colston	146	9,759	711	1,099	13.7	66.8	72	7	2	3.5	0.0	0
10	Herman Moore H. Moore	146	9,174	670	122	13.7	62.8	62	0	0		0.0	0
11	Mark Duper M. Duper	146	8,869	511		17.4	60.7	59	-10	1	-10.0	-0.1	0
12	Wes Chandler W. Chandler	150	8,966	559		16.0	59.8	56	84	16	5.3	0.6	0
13	Jordy Nelson J. Nelson	151	8,587	613	924	14.0	56.9	72	-2	1	-2.0	0.0	0
14	Laveranues Coles L. Coles	153	8,609	674	1,169	12.8	56.3	49	231	37	6.2	1.5	0
15	Rob Moore R. Moore	153	9,368	628	96	14.9	61.2	49	8	5	1.6	0.1	0
16	Amari Cooper A. Cooper	154	10,033	711	1,163	14.1	65.1	64	41	14	2.9	0.3	0
17	Vincent Jackson V. Jackson	155	9,080	540	1,036	16.8	58.6	57	161	15	10.7	1.0	0
18	Anthony Miller A. Miller	155	9,148	595		15.4	59.0	63	131	22	6.0	0.8	1
19	Paul Warfield P. Warfield	157	8,565	427		20.1	54.6	85	204	22	9.3	1.3	0
20	A.J. Green	158	10,514	727	1,268	14.5	66.5	70	93	11	8.5	0.6	0
21	Mark Clayton M. Clayton	158	8,974	582		15.4	56.8	84	108	14	7.7	0.7	0
22	Michael Irvin M. Irvin	159	11,904	750	19	15.9	74.9	65	6	6	1.0	0.0	0
23	Stefon Diggs S. Diggs	160	11,461	939	1,341	12.2	71.6	74	170	35	4.9	1.1	1
24	Joe Horn J. Horn	163	8,744	603	1,014	14.5	53.6	58	54	14	3.9	0.3	0
25	John Stallworth J. Stallworth	165	8,723	537		16.2	52.9	63	111	9	12.3	0.7	1

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