most kick return yards by a saints rookie in a season

Deuce McAllister has scored the most kick-return yards by a rookie for the Saints, with 1,091 yards in 2001.

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	NAME	KR YDS	SEASON	TM	GP	KR	KR AVG	KR YDS/G	KR TD	PR	PR YDS	PR AVG	PR YDS/G	PR TD
1	Deuce McAllister D. McAllister	1,091	2001	NO	16	45	24.2	68.2	0	4	24	6.0	1.5	0
2	Chad Morton C. Morton	1,029	2000	NO	16	44	23.4	64.3	0	30	278	9.3	17.4	0
3	Jimmy Rogers J. Rogers	930	1980	NO	16	41	22.7	58.1	0	0	0		0.0	0
4	Mel Gray M. Gray	866	1986	NO	16	31	27.9	54.1	1	0	0		0.0	0
5	Pierre Thomas P. Thomas	865	2007	NO	12	36	24.0	72.1	0	0	0		0.0	0
6	Michael L. Lewis M. L. Lewis	762	2001	NO	8	32	23.8	95.3	0	14	81	5.8	10.1	0
7	Wes Chandler W. Chandler	760	1978	NO	16	32	23.8	47.5	0	34	233	6.9	14.6	0
8	Tyrone Hughes T. Hughes	753	1993	NO	16	30	25.1	47.1	1	37	503	13.6	31.4	2
9	Travaris Cadet T. Cadet	690	2012	NO	13	26	26.5	53.1	0	1	2	2.0	0.2	0
10	Deonte Harty D. Harty	644	2019	NO	14	24	26.8	46.0	0	36	338	9.4	24.1	1
11	Gil Chapman G. Chapman	614	1975	NO	9	28	21.9	68.2	0	17	207	12.2	23.0	0
12	Rich Mauti R. Mauti	609	1977	NO	14	27	22.6	43.5	0	37	281	7.6	20.1	0
13	Howard Stevens H. Stevens	590	1973	NO	14	26	22.7	42.1	0	17	171	10.1	12.2	0
14	Gill Fenerty G. Fenerty	572	1990	NO	15	28	20.4	38.1	0	0	0		0.0	0
15	Gene Howard G. Howard	533	1968	NO	14	23	23.2	38.1	0	8	42	5.3	3.0	0
16	Tyrone Anthony T. Anthony	490	1984	NO	15	22	22.3	32.7	0	0	0		0.0	0
17	John Gilliam J. Gilliam	481	1967	NO	13	16	30.1	37.0	1	7	13	1.9	1.0	0
18	Virgil Robinson V. Robinson	443	1971	NO	11	19	23.3	40.3	0	0	0		0.0	0
19	Tony Galbreath T. Galbreath	399	1976	NO	14	20	20.0	28.5	0	2	8	4.0	0.6	0
20	Eric Martin E. Martin	384	1985	NO	16	15	25.6	24.0	0	8	53	6.6	3.3	0
21	Rod Harris R. Harris	378	1989	NO	11	19	19.9	34.4	0	27	196	7.3	17.8	0
22	Jitter Fields J. Fields	356	1984	NO	13	19	18.7	27.4	0	27	236	8.7	18.2	0
23	Alvin Kamara A. Kamara	347	2017	NO	16	11	31.5	21.7	1	0	0		0.0	0
24	Rashid Shaheed R. Shaheed	320	2022	NO	12	14	22.9	26.7	0	20	193	9.7	16.1	0
25	Marcus Murphy M. Murphy	300	2015	NO	13	12	25.0	23.1	0	28	261	9.3	20.1	1

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