most career kickoff returns for touchdown by 1 player in nfl history

Cordarrelle Patterson has the most career kick-return touchdowns, with 9 touchdowns.

	NAME	KR TD	GP	KR	KR YDS	KR AVG	KR YDS/G	PR	PR YDS	PR AVG	PR YDS/G	PR TD
1	Cordarrelle Patterson C. Patterson	9	183	284	8,229	29.0	45.0	1	9	9.0	0.0	0
2	Leon Washington L. Washington	8	126	292	7,553	25.9	59.9	181	1,793	9.9	14.2	0
3	Josh Cribbs J. Cribbs	8	136	426	11,113	26.1	81.7	222	2,375	10.7	17.5	3
4	Dante Hall D. Hall	6	112	426	10,136	23.8	90.5	216	2,261	10.5	20.2	6
5	Mel Gray M. Gray	6	169	421	10,250	24.3	60.7	252	2,753	10.9	16.3	3
6	Travis Williams T. Williams	6	62	102	2,801	27.5	45.2	13	213	16.4	3.4	1
7	Gale Sayers G. Sayers	6	68	91	2,781	30.6	40.9	27	391	14.5	5.8	2
8	Ollie Matson O. Matson	6	169	143	3,746	26.2	22.2	65	595	9.2	3.5	3
9	Kene Nwangwu K. Nwangwu	5	49	85	2,526	29.7	51.6	0	0		0.0	0
10	Percy Harvin P. Harvin	5	75	152	4,127	27.2	55.0	0	0		0.0	0
11	Jacoby Jones J. Jones	5	128	183	4,940	27.0	38.6	276	2,688	9.7	21.0	4
12	Devin Hester D. Hester	5	156	295	7,333	24.9	47.0	315	3,695	11.7	23.7	14
13	Justin Miller J. Miller	5	46	152	3,966	26.1	86.2	6	9	1.5	0.2	0
14	Terrence McGee T. McGee	5	122	207	5,450	26.3	44.7	0	0		0.0	0
15	Allen Rossum A. Rossum	5	157	514	11,947	23.2	76.1	307	3,056	10.0	19.5	3
16	Michael Bates M. Bates	5	145	373	9,110	24.4	62.8	10	44	4.4	0.3	0
17	Timmy Brown T. Brown	5	108	184	4,781	26.0	44.3	71	639	9.0	5.9	1
18	Bobby Mitchell B. Mitchell	5	148	102	2,690	26.4	18.2	69	699	10.1	4.7	3
19	Abe Woodson A. Woodson	5	116	193	5,538	28.7	47.7	123	956	7.8	8.2	2
20	Jacoby Ford J. Ford	4	38	75	1,874	25.0	49.3	9	77	8.6	2.0	0
21	Brad Smith B. Smith	4	125	112	2,873	25.7	23.0	2	27	13.5	0.2	0
22	Andre Davis A. Davis	4	104	205	4,821	23.5	46.4	8	40	5.0	0.4	0
23	Darrick Vaughn D. Vaughn	4	48	103	2,620	25.4	54.6	0	0		0.0	0
24	Tony Horne T. Horne	4	39	143	3,577	25.0	91.7	7	38	5.4	1.0	0
25	Tamarick Vanover T. Vanover	4	77	226	5,422	24.0	70.4	197	2,016	10.2	26.2	4

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