highest career punt return average of all-time minimum 50 return attempts

Marcus Jones has gained the most career yards per punt return, with 14.6 per return.

Interpreted as:

highest career punt return average with a minimum of 75 punt returns of all-time minimum 50 return attempts by a player

	NAME	AVG	PR	RET	ATT	PASS ATT	RUSH ATT	GP	YDS	YDS/G	TD	RUSH YDS	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD	REC YDS	REC YDS/G	REC TD	KR YDS	KR YDS/G	KR TD	PR YDS	PR YDS/G	PR TD
1	Marcus Jones M. Jones	14.6	77	115	121	0	1	44	2,077	47.2	6	5	0.1	0	96	2.2	1	645	14.7	0	1,127	25.6	3
2	George McAfee G. McAfee	12.8	112	164	536	11	294	65	4,893	75.3	36	1,432	22.0	19	1,242	19.1	11	488	7.5	1	1,431	22.0	2
3	Jack Christiansen J. Christiansen	12.8	85	197	219	0	19	89	3,393	38.1	13	143	1.6	2	32	0.4	0	1,329	14.9	0	1,084	12.2	8
4	Claude Gibson C. Gibson	12.6	110	148	148	0	0	70	1,922	27.5	4	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	268	3.8	0	1,381	19.7	3
5	Bill Dudley B. Dudley	12.2	124	242	1,130	222	765	90	8,217	91.3	44	3,057	34.0	18	1,383	15.4	18	1,743	19.4	1	1,515	16.8	3
6	Rick Upchurch R. Upchurch	12.1	248	352	668	3	49	119	10,081	84.7	35	349	2.9	3	4,369	36.7	24	2,355	19.8	0	3,008	25.3	8
7	Desmond Howard D. Howard	11.9	244	607	742	0	12	156	12,519	80.3	15	68	0.4	0	1,597	10.2	7	7,959	51.0	0	2,895	18.6	8
8	Billy Johnson B. Johnson	11.8	282	409	802	1	56	143	10,785	75.4	35	316	2.2	2	4,211	29.4	25	2,941	20.6	2	3,317	23.2	6
9	Devin Hester D. Hester	11.7	315	629	920	0	36	156	14,455	92.7	37	116	0.7	1	3,311	21.2	16	7,333	47.0	5	3,695	23.7	14
10	Devin Duvernay D. Duvernay	11.7	104	228	365	0	31	84	5,361	63.8	9	222	2.6	1	979	11.7	5	2,940	35.0	2	1,218	14.5	0
11	Mack Herron M. Herron	11.7	84	174	589	0	354	39	5,054	129.6	16	1,298	33.3	9	789	20.2	6	1,985	50.9	1	982	25.2	0
12	Roscoe Parrish R. Parrish	11.6	165	207	355	1	14	90	4,264	47.4	11	71	0.8	1	1,502	16.7	7	771	8.6	0	1,920	21.3	3
13	Bill Thompson B. Thompson	11.6	157	264	264	0	0	179	3,929	21.9	7	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	1,156	6.5	0	1,814	10.1	0
14	Darrien Gordon D. Gordon	11.5	314	355	355	0	0	138	4,128	29.9	9	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	70	0.5	0	3,601	26.1	6
15	Tyreek Hill T. Hill	11.5	92	114	1,047	1	114	145	13,681	94.4	96	819	5.6	7	11,363	78.4	83	384	2.6	1	1,055	7.3	4
16	Gunner Olszewski G. Olszewski	11.4	117	185	215	1	14	79	3,126	39.6	4	71	0.9	0	204	2.6	2	1,515	19.2	0	1,336	16.9	2
17	Nyheim Hines N. Hines	11.4	89	131	679	0	308	84	5,016	59.7	22	1,200	14.3	10	1,778	21.2	8	1,012	12.0	2	1,015	12.1	2
18	Henry Ellard H. Ellard	11.3	135	166	999	0	19	228	15,718	68.9	69	50	0.2	0	13,777	60.4	65	364	1.6	0	1,527	6.7	4
19	Rodger Bird R. Bird	11.3	94	128	128	0	0	38	1,706	44.9	1	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	533	14.0	0	1,063	28.0	0
20	Braxton Berrios B. Berrios	11.3	100	193	353	1	20	91	4,926	54.1	11	171	1.9	4	1,360	14.9	6	2,265	24.9	1	1,130	12.4	0
21	Bosh Pritchard B. Pritchard	11.3	95	150	617	2	392	60	4,968	82.8	25	1,730	28.8	11	1,168	19.5	10	938	15.6	1	1,072	17.9	2
22	Julian Edelman J. Edelman	11.2	177	220	898	6	58	137	9,869	72.0	41	413	3.0	0	6,822	49.8	36	626	4.6	0	1,986	14.5	4
23	Jeremy Ross J. Ross	11.2	78	159	207	0	5	51	3,299	64.7	5	41	0.8	0	506	9.9	3	1,878	36.8	1	874	17.1	1
24	Terry Metcalf T. Metcalf	11.1	84	223	1,234	10	766	81	10,001	123.5	36	3,498	43.2	24	2,457	30.3	9	3,087	38.1	2	936	11.6	1
25	Bob Hayes B. Hayes	11.1	104	137	532	0	24	132	9,221	69.9	76	68	0.5	2	7,414	56.2	71	581	4.4	0	1,158	8.8	3

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