longest kick return by a defensive lineman since 2000

Since 2000, Kentwan Balmer has the most kickoff returns by a defensive lineman, with 7 returns.

	NAME	KR	GP	KR YDS	KR AVG	KR YDS/G	KR TD	PR	PR YDS	PR AVG	PR YDS/G	PR TD
1	Kentwan Balmer K. Balmer	7	46	54	7.7	1.2	0	0	0		0.0	0
2	Willie Whitehead W. Whitehead	6	89	51	8.5	0.6	0	0	0		0.0	0
3	Turk McBride T. McBride	5	66	48	9.6	0.7	0	0	0		0.0	0
4	Spencer Johnson S. Johnson	5	109	52	10.4	0.5	0	0	0		0.0	0
5	Joe Tafoya J. Tafoya	5	76	55	11.0	0.7	0	0	0		0.0	0
6	Montae Reagor M. Reagor	5	90	88	17.6	1.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
7	Israel Idonije I. Idonije	4	149	2	0.5	0.0	0	1	0	0.0	0.0	0
8	Jarret Johnson J. Johnson	4	63	34	8.5	0.5	0	0	0		0.0	0
9	Kindal Moorehead K. Moorehead	4	89	46	11.5	0.5	0	0	0		0.0	0
10	David Bowens D. Bowens	4	88	38	9.5	0.4	0	0	0		0.0	0
11	Darrell Reid D. Reid	3	55	30	10.0	0.5	0	0	0		0.0	0
12	Monty Beisel M. Beisel	3	16	35	11.7	2.2	0	0	0		0.0	0
13	Demetric Evans D. Evans	3	126	7	2.3	0.1	0	0	0		0.0	0
14	Leonardo Carson L. Carson	3	64	37	12.3	0.6	0	0	0		0.0	0
15	Sean Moran S. Moran	3	63	52	17.3	0.8	0	0	0		0.0	0
16	Brandon Noble B. Noble	3	64	41	13.7	0.6	0	0	0		0.0	0
17	Carl Powell C. Powell	3	70	34	11.3	0.5	0	0	0		0.0	0
18	Nate Orchard N. Orchard	2	30	17	8.5	0.6	0	0	0		0.0	0
19	Cassius Marsh C. Marsh	2	76	17	8.5	0.2	0	0	0		0.0	0
20	Sharrif Floyd S. Floyd	2	44	9	4.5	0.2	0	0	0		0.0	0
21	Abry Jones A. Jones	2	105	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
22	Ryan Davis R. Davis	2	54	22	11.0	0.4	0	0	0		0.0	0
23	Tony Jerod-Eddie T. Jerod-Eddie	2	57	29	14.5	0.5	0	0	0		0.0	0
24	Christian Ballard C. Ballard	2	32	12	6.0	0.4	0	0	0		0.0	0
25	Karl Klug K. Klug	2	109	32	16.0	0.3	0	0	0		0.0	0

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