most kick return yards by a tight end in nfl history

Niles Paul has the most career kick-return yards by a tight end, with 799 yards.

	NAME	KR YDS	GP	KR	KR AVG	KR YDS/G	KR TD	PR	PR YDS	PR AVG	PR YDS/G	PR TD
1	Niles Paul N. Paul	799	75	40	20.0	10.7	0	0	0		0.0	0
2	John Henry Mills J. Henry Mills	512	32	26	19.7	16.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
3	Delanie Walker D. Walker	440	160	27	16.3	2.8	0	0	0		0.0	0
4	Pervis Atkins P. Atkins	429	19	19	22.6	22.6	0	12	36	3.0	1.9	0
5	Preston Carpenter P. Carpenter	371	101	14	26.5	3.7	0	25	266	10.6	2.6	0
6	Brian Kozlowski B. Kozlowski	370	182	29	12.8	2.0	0	1	0	0.0	0.0	0
7	Albert Bentley A. Bentley	328	16	17	19.3	20.5	0	0	0		0.0	0
8	John Mackey J. Mackey	271	139	9	30.1	1.9	0	0	0		0.0	0
9	Lewis Jolley L. Jolley	267	7	11	24.3	38.1	0	0	0		0.0	0
10	Gary Shirk G. Shirk	210	101	14	15.0	2.1	0	0	0		0.0	0
11	Jim Thaxton J. Thaxton	193	54	8	24.1	3.6	0	0	0		0.0	0
12	Pat Curran P. Curran	191	121	15	12.7	1.6	0	0	0		0.0	0
13	Jim Obradovich J. Obradovich	167	129	14	11.9	1.3	0	0	0		0.0	0
14	Darnell Dinkins D. Dinkins	161	87	16	10.1	1.9	0	0	0		0.0	0
15	Brian Kinchen B. Kinchen	161	191	13	12.4	0.8	0	0	0		0.0	0
16	Bruce Hardy B. Hardy	156	151	12	13.0	1.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
17	Mike Sellers M. Sellers	140	36	8	17.5	3.9	0	0	0		0.0	0
18	Kyle Brady K. Brady	138	197	12	11.5	0.7	0	0	0		0.0	0
19	Don Bass D. Bass	138	19	7	19.7	7.3	0	3	8	2.7	0.4	0
20	Derrick Ramsey D. Ramsey	135	122	8	16.9	1.1	0	0	0		0.0	0
21	Luke Willson L. Willson	129	102	10	12.9	1.3	0	0	0		0.0	0
22	Mike Tice M. Tice	125	177	8	15.6	0.7	0	0	0		0.0	0
23	Dante Rosario D. Rosario	123	122	10	12.3	1.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
24	Casey Fitzsimmons C. Fitzsimmons	113	99	7	16.1	1.1	1	0	0		0.0	0
25	Erron Kinney E. Kinney	113	83	8	14.1	1.4	0	0	0		0.0	0

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