highest punt return average by a player nfl career

Marvin Mims Jr. has averaged the most career yards per punt return, with 15.9 per return.

Regular season
Min. 75 Punt Returns

	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	Marcus Jones M. Jones	14.3	79	49	27	645	23.9	13.2	0	1,132	23.1	3
3	Rashid Shaheed R. Shaheed	13.1	78	52	56	1,402	25.0	27.0	1	1,023	19.7	3
4	George McAfee G. McAfee	12.8	112	65	18	488	27.1	7.5	1	1,431	22.0	2
5	Jack Christiansen J. Christiansen	12.8	85	89	59	1,329	22.5	14.9	0	1,084	12.2	8
6	Claude Gibson C. Gibson	12.6	110	70	16	268	16.8	3.8	0	1,381	19.7	3
7	Bill Dudley B. Dudley	12.2	124	90	78	1,743	22.3	19.4	1	1,515	16.8	3
8	Rick Upchurch R. Upchurch	12.1	248	119	95	2,355	24.8	19.8	0	3,008	25.3	8
9	Desmond Howard D. Howard	11.9	244	156	359	7,959	22.2	51.0	0	2,895	18.6	8
10	Devin Duvernay D. Duvernay	11.8	109	90	130	3,300	25.4	36.7	2	1,284	14.3	0
11	Billy Johnson B. Johnson	11.8	282	143	123	2,941	23.9	20.6	2	3,317	23.2	6
12	Devin Hester D. Hester	11.7	315	156	295	7,333	24.9	47.0	5	3,695	23.7	14
13	Mack Herron M. Herron	11.7	84	39	82	1,985	24.2	50.9	1	982	25.2	0
14	Roscoe Parrish R. Parrish	11.6	165	90	33	771	23.4	8.6	0	1,920	21.3	3
15	Bill Thompson B. Thompson	11.6	157	179	46	1,156	25.1	6.5	0	1,814	10.1	0
16	Darrien Gordon D. Gordon	11.5	314	138	5	70	14.0	0.5	0	3,601	26.1	6
17	Tyreek Hill T. Hill	11.5	92	145	14	384	27.4	2.6	1	1,055	7.3	4
18	Nyheim Miller-Hines N. Miller-Hines	11.4	90	85	39	1,012	25.9	11.9	2	1,026	12.1	2
19	Gunner Olszewski G. Olszewski	11.4	122	82	67	1,586	23.7	19.3	0	1,386	16.9	2
20	Henry Ellard H. Ellard	11.3	135	228	19	364	19.2	1.6	0	1,527	6.7	4
21	Rodger Bird R. Bird	11.3	94	38	25	533	21.3	14.0	0	1,063	28.0	0
22	Braxton Berrios B. Berrios	11.3	100	92	92	2,293	24.9	24.9	1	1,130	12.3	0
23	Bosh Pritchard B. Pritchard	11.3	95	60	41	938	22.9	15.6	1	1,072	17.9	2
24	Britain Covey B. Covey	11.2	83	45	16	361	22.6	8.0	0	932	20.7	0
25	Julian Edelman J. Edelman	11.2	177	137	30	626	20.9	4.6	0	1,986	14.5	4

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