highest kick return yds by player in his 9th season

Desmond Howard had the most kick-return yards by a player in his 9th season, with 1,401 yards in 2000.

	NAME	KR YDS	SEASON	TM	GP	KR	KR AVG	KR YDS/G	KR TD	PR	PR YDS	PR AVG	PR YDS/G	PR TD
1	Desmond Howard D. Howard	1,401	2000	DET	15	57	24.6	93.4	0	31	457	14.7	30.5	1
2	Brian Mitchell B. Mitchell	1,337	1998	WAS	16	59	22.7	83.6	1	44	506	11.5	31.6	0
3	Mel Gray M. Gray	1,276	1994	DET	16	45	28.4	79.8	3	21	233	11.1	14.6	0
4	Andre Roberts A. Roberts	1,174	2018	NYJ	16	40	29.4	73.4	1	23	324	14.1	20.3	1
5	Michael Bates M. Bates	1,150	2001	WAS	16	49	23.5	71.9	0	2	5	2.5	0.3	0
6	Devin Hester D. Hester	1,128	2014	ATL	16	45	25.1	70.5	0	18	240	13.3	15.0	1
7	Allen Rossum A. Rossum	1,082	2006	ATL	16	46	23.5	67.6	0	37	288	7.8	18.0	0
8	Terry Kirby T. Kirby	1,066	2001	OAK	11	46	23.2	96.9	1	0	0		0.0	0
9	Clarence Verdin C. Verdin	1,026	1994	ATL	12	44	23.3	85.5	0	23	113	4.9	9.4	0
10	Ron Smith R. Smith	947	1973	SD	14	36	26.3	67.6	0	27	352	13.0	25.1	2
11	Corey Harris C. Harris	907	2000	BAL	16	39	23.3	56.7	0	0	0		0.0	0
12	Michael Pittman M. Pittman	867	2006	TB	16	39	22.2	54.2	0	0	0		0.0	0
13	Dave Meggett D. Meggett	816	1997	NE	16	33	24.7	51.0	0	45	467	10.4	29.2	0
14	Steve Broussard S. Broussard	781	1998	SEA	15	29	26.9	52.1	1	0	0		0.0	0
15	Dante Hall D. Hall	763	2008	STL	8	37	20.6	95.4	0	9	93	10.3	11.6	0
16	Leon Washington L. Washington	738	2014	TEN	16	31	23.8	46.1	0	7	47	6.7	2.9	0
17	Herschel Walker H. Walker	581	1994	PHI	16	21	27.7	36.3	1	0	0		0.0	0
18	Brandon Tate B. Tate	548	2017	BUF	13	28	19.6	42.2	0	20	193	9.7	14.8	0
19	Dick James D. James	515	1964	NYG	14	23	22.4	36.8	0	21	153	7.3	10.9	0
20	Josh Cribbs J. Cribbs	490	2013	NYJ	6	20	24.5	81.7	0	8	96	12.0	16.0	0
21	Cordarrelle Patterson C. Patterson	434	2021	ATL	16	18	24.1	27.1	0	0	0		0.0	0
22	Samaje Perine S. Perine	430	2025	CIN	15	17	25.3	28.7	0	0	0		0.0	0
23	Clarence Peaks C. Peaks	429	1965	PIT	10	20	21.5	42.9	0	0	0		0.0	0
24	Carl Garrett C. Garrett	420	1977	OAK	14	21	20.0	30.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
25	Jacoby Jones J. Jones	413	2015	TOT	9	18	22.9	45.9	0	11	15	1.4	1.7	0

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