highest yards per reception for wide receivers with more than 500 receiving yards in a season nfl in since 1990

Since 1990, Alvin Harper has averaged the most yards per reception by a wide receiver with more than 500 receiving yards in a season, with 24.9 per reception in 1994.

	NAME	AVG	REC YDS	SEASON	TM	GP	REC	TRG	REC YDS/G	REC TD	RUSH YDS	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD
1	Alvin Harper A. Harper	24.9	821	1994	DAL	16	33		51.3	8	0	0		0.0	0
2	Devery Henderson D. Henderson	24.8	793	2008	NO	16	32	56	49.6	3	33	4	8.3	2.1	0
3	Chris Sanders C. Sanders	23.5	823	1995	HOU	16	35		51.4	9	-19	2	-9.5	-1.2	0
4	James Jett J. Jett	23.4	771	1993	RAI	16	33		48.2	3	0	1	0.0	0.0	0
5	Devery Henderson D. Henderson	23.3	745	2006	NO	13	32	54	57.3	5	14	2	7.0	1.1	1
6	Shawn Jefferson S. Jefferson	22.7	771	1998	NE	16	34		48.2	2	15	1	15.0	0.9	0
7	DeSean Jackson D. Jackson	22.5	1,056	2010	PHI	14	47	96	75.4	6	104	16	6.5	7.4	1
8	Michael Haynes M. Haynes	22.4	1,122	1991	ATL	16	50		70.1	11	0	0		0.0	0
9	Alec Pierce A. Pierce	22.3	824	2024	IND	16	37	69	51.5	7	0	0		0.0	0
10	Alvin Harper A. Harper	21.6	777	1993	DAL	16	36		48.6	5	0	0		0.0	0
11	Flipper Anderson F. Anderson	21.5	1,097	1990	RAM	16	51		68.6	4	13	1	13.0	0.8	0
12	Christian Watson C. Watson	21.4	620	2024	GB	15	29	53	41.3	2	23	4	5.8	1.5	0
13	Alec Pierce A. Pierce	21.3	1,003	2025	IND	15	47	84	66.9	6	0	0		0.0	0
14	Keith Poole K. Poole	21.2	509	1998	NO	15	24		33.9	2	0	0		0.0	0
15	Martavis Bryant M. Bryant	21.1	549	2014	PIT	10	26	49	54.9	8	12	3	4.0	1.2	0
16	Horace Copeland H. Copeland	21.1	633	1993	TB	14	30		45.2	4	34	3	11.3	2.4	0
17	Charles Wilson C. Wilson	21.0	652	1994	TB	14	31		46.6	6	15	2	7.5	1.1	0
18	Willie Davis W. Davis	21.0	756	1992	KC	16	36		47.3	3	-11	1	-11.0	-0.7	0
19	Mike Wallace M. Wallace	21.0	1,257	2010	PIT	16	60	98	78.6	10	39	5	7.8	2.4	0
20	Marquez Valdes-Scantling M. Valdes-Scantling	20.9	690	2020	GB	16	33	63	43.1	6	13	4	3.3	0.8	0
21	Tim Dwight T. Dwight	20.9	669	1999	ATL	12	32	50	55.8	7	28	5	5.6	2.3	1
22	Kelly Campbell K. Campbell	20.9	522	2003	MIN	15	25	44	34.8	4	71	10	7.1	4.7	0
23	DeSean Jackson D. Jackson	20.9	1,169	2014	WAS	15	56	95	77.9	6	7	4	1.8	0.5	0
24	Stephen Baker S. Baker	20.8	541	1990	NYG	16	26		33.8	4	3	1	3.0	0.2	0
25	Mecole Hardman Jr. M. Hardman Jr.	20.7	538	2019	KC	16	26	41	33.6	6	17	4	4.3	1.1	0

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