most average yards per catch with a minimum of 800 receptions by a player in nfl history

Henry Ellard has the most career yards per reception when he has 800+ catches, with 16.9 per reception.

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	NAME	AVG	REC	GP	TRG	REC YDS	REC YDS/G	REC TD	RUSH YDS	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD
1	Henry Ellard H. Ellard	16.9	814	228		13,777	60.4	65	50	19	2.6	0.2	0
2	Steve Largent S. Largent	16.0	819	200		13,089	65.4	100	83	17	4.9	0.4	1
3	Randy Moss R. Moss	15.6	982	218	1,616	15,292	70.1	156	159	25	6.4	0.7	0
4	Irving Fryar I. Fryar	15.0	851	255	122	12,785	50.1	84	242	44	5.5	0.9	1
5	Mike Evans M. Evans	15.0	878	179	1,510	13,189	73.7	110	10	1	10.0	0.1	0
6	Julio Jones J. Jones	15.0	914	166	1,432	13,703	82.5	66	163	24	6.8	1.0	0
7	Isaac Bruce I. Bruce	14.9	1,024	223	1,210	15,208	68.2	91	139	25	5.6	0.6	0
8	Terrell Owens T. Owens	14.8	1,078	219	1,604	15,934	72.8	153	251	39	6.4	1.1	3
9	Jerry Rice J. Rice	14.8	1,549	303	709	22,895	75.6	197	645	87	7.4	2.1	10
10	Torry Holt T. Holt	14.5	920	173	1,561	13,382	77.4	74	57	11	5.2	0.3	0
11	Steve Smith Sr. S. Smith Sr.	14.3	1,031	219	1,745	14,731	67.3	81	387	57	6.8	1.8	2
12	Jimmy Smith J. Smith	14.3	862	178	1,012	12,287	69.0	67	-1	2	-0.5	0.0	0
13	Andre Reed A. Reed	13.9	951	234	111	13,198	56.4	87	500	75	6.7	2.1	1
14	Tyreek Hill T. Hill	13.9	819	145	1,201	11,363	78.4	83	819	114	7.2	5.6	7
15	Tim Brown T. Brown	13.7	1,094	255	670	14,934	58.6	100	190	50	3.8	0.7	1
16	Art Monk A. Monk	13.5	940	224		12,721	56.8	68	332	63	5.3	1.5	0
17	Roddy White R. White	13.4	808	171	1,376	10,863	63.5	63	19	9	2.1	0.1	0
18	Rod Smith R. Smith	13.4	849	183	1,100	11,389	62.2	68	348	44	7.9	1.9	1
19	Reggie Wayne R. Wayne	13.4	1,070	211	1,712	14,345	68.0	82	0	4	0.0	0.0	0
20	Andre Johnson A. Johnson	13.4	1,062	193	1,743	14,185	73.5	70	54	23	2.3	0.3	0
21	Muhsin Muhammad M. Muhammad	13.3	860	202	1,304	11,438	56.6	62	64	11	5.8	0.3	0
22	Antonio Brown A. Brown	13.2	928	146	1,406	12,291	84.2	83	128	35	3.7	0.9	0
23	Marvin Harrison M. Harrison	13.2	1,102	190	1,431	14,580	76.7	128	28	10	2.8	0.1	0
24	DeAndre Hopkins D. Hopkins	13.2	1,006	195	1,624	13,295	68.2	85	21	6	3.5	0.1	0
25	Keyshawn Johnson K. Johnson	13.0	814	167	1,040	10,571	63.3	64	91	13	7.0	0.5	2

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Bears	2	1	0	.667
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Saints	1	2	0	.333
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