most career kick return yards in nfl history by a player

Brian Mitchell has scored the most career kick-return yards, with 14,014 yards.

	NAME	KR YDS	GP	KR	KR AVG	KR YDS/G	KR TD	PR	PR YDS	PR AVG	PR YDS/G	PR TD
1	Brian Mitchell B. Mitchell	14,014	223	607	23.1	62.8	4	463	4,999	10.8	22.4	9
2	Allen Rossum A. Rossum	11,947	157	514	23.2	76.1	5	307	3,056	10.0	19.5	3
3	Josh Cribbs J. Cribbs	11,113	136	426	26.1	81.7	8	222	2,375	10.7	17.5	3
4	Mel Gray M. Gray	10,250	169	421	24.3	60.7	6	252	2,753	10.9	16.3	3
5	Dante Hall D. Hall	10,136	112	426	23.8	90.5	6	216	2,261	10.5	20.2	6
6	Glyn Milburn G. Milburn	9,788	138	407	24.0	70.9	2	304	2,984	9.8	21.6	1
7	Michael Bates M. Bates	9,110	145	373	24.4	62.8	5	10	44	4.4	0.3	0
8	Darren Sproles D. Sproles	8,352	183	332	25.2	45.6	2	311	2,961	9.5	16.2	7
9	Cordarrelle Patterson C. Patterson	8,229	183	284	29.0	45.0	9	1	9	9.0	0.0	0
10	Desmond Howard D. Howard	7,959	156	359	22.2	51.0	0	244	2,895	11.9	18.6	8
11	Leon Washington L. Washington	7,553	126	292	25.9	59.9	8	181	1,793	9.9	14.2	0
12	Devin Hester D. Hester	7,333	156	295	24.9	47.0	5	315	3,695	11.7	23.7	14
13	Kevin Williams K. Williams	7,309	121	322	22.7	60.4	1	231	2,295	9.9	19.0	3
14	Tyrone Hughes T. Hughes	6,999	81	283	24.7	86.4	3	162	1,411	8.7	17.4	2
15	Ron Smith R. Smith	6,922	139	275	25.2	49.8	3	235	1,788	7.6	12.9	2
16	Ted Ginn T. Ginn	6,899	193	307	22.5	35.7	3	262	2,624	10.0	13.6	4
17	Andre Roberts A. Roberts	6,751	182	260	26.0	37.1	3	219	1,880	8.6	10.3	3
18	Chris Carr C. Carr	6,276	125	256	24.5	50.2	0	148	1,073	7.3	8.6	0
19	Michael L. Lewis M. L. Lewis	5,989	76	248	24.1	78.8	3	186	1,818	9.8	23.9	1
20	Brandon Tate B. Tate	5,890	127	247	23.8	46.4	2	203	1,924	9.5	15.1	1
21	Eric Metcalf E. Metcalf	5,813	179	280	20.8	32.5	2	351	3,453	9.8	19.3	10
22	Eddie Drummond E. Drummond	5,811	64	250	23.2	90.8	2	140	1,280	9.1	20.0	4
23	Dave Meggett D. Meggett	5,566	146	252	22.1	38.1	1	349	3,708	10.6	25.4	7
24	Abe Woodson A. Woodson	5,538	116	193	28.7	47.7	5	123	956	7.8	8.2	2
25	Corey Harris C. Harris	5,528	183	238	23.2	30.2	1	6	17	2.8	0.1	0

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