most receiving yards by a player denver bronocs in a rookie season

Eddie Royal has the most receiving yards by a rookie for the Broncos, with 980 yards in 2008.

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Data note: Receiving Yards: player season data complete from 1932

	NAME	REC YDS	SEASON	TM	GP	REC	TRG	AVG	REC YDS/G	REC TD	RUSH YDS	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD
1	Eddie Royal E. Royal	980	2008	DEN	15	91	129	10.8	65.3	5	109	11	9.9	7.3	0
2	Jerry Jeudy J. Jeudy	856	2020	DEN	16	52	113	16.5	53.5	3	0	0		0.0	0
3	Al Frazier A. Frazier	799	1961	DEN	14	47		17.0	57.1	6	110	23	4.8	7.9	0
4	Mark Jackson M. Jackson	738	1986	DEN	16	38		19.4	46.1	1	6	2	3.0	0.4	0
5	Vance Johnson V. Johnson	721	1985	DEN	16	51		14.1	45.1	3	36	10	3.6	2.3	0
6	Courtland Sutton C. Sutton	704	2018	DEN	16	42	84	16.8	44.0	4	-1	1	-1.0	-0.1	0
7	Ricky Nattiel R. Nattiel	630	1987	DEN	12	31		20.3	52.5	2	13	2	6.5	1.1	0
8	Noah Fant N. Fant	562	2019	DEN	16	40	66	14.1	35.1	3	-12	3	-4.0	-0.8	0
9	Ashley Lelie A. Lelie	525	2002	DEN	16	35	53	15.0	32.8	2	40	4	10.0	2.5	0
10	Arthur Marshall A. Marshall	493	1992	DEN	16	26		19.0	30.8	1	56	11	5.1	3.5	0
11	Devaughn Vele D. Vele	475	2024	DEN	13	41	55	11.6	36.5	3	0	0		0.0	0
12	John Embree J. Embree	469	1969	DEN	13	29		16.2	36.1	5	0	0		0.0	0
13	Rick Upchurch R. Upchurch	436	1975	DEN	14	18		24.2	31.1	2	97	16	6.1	6.9	1
14	Jack Dolbin J. Dolbin	421	1975	DEN	14	22		19.1	30.1	3	72	5	14.4	5.1	0
15	Greg Dulcich G. Dulcich	411	2022	DEN	10	33	55	12.5	41.1	2	0	0		0.0	0
16	Darius Watts D. Watts	385	2004	DEN	16	31	53	12.4	24.1	1	33	5	6.6	2.1	0
17	Al Denson A. Denson	383	1964	DEN	14	25		15.3	27.4	1	0	0		0.0	0
18	KJ Hamler	381	2020	DEN	13	30	56	12.7	29.3	3	40	9	4.4	3.1	0
19	Pat Bryant P. Bryant	378	2025	DEN	15	31	49	12.2	25.2	1	0	0		0.0	0
20	Marvin Mims Jr. M. Mims Jr.	377	2023	DEN	16	22	33	17.1	23.6	1	30	9	3.3	1.9	0
21	Terrell Davis T. Davis	367	1995	DEN	14	49		7.5	26.2	1	1,117	237	4.7	79.8	7
22	Clinton Portis C. Portis	364	2002	DEN	16	33	48	11.0	22.8	2	1,508	273	5.5	94.3	15
23	RJ Harvey	356	2025	DEN	17	47	58	7.6	20.9	5	540	146	3.7	31.8	7
24	Billy Van Heusen B. Van Heusen	353	1968	DEN	13	19		18.6	27.2	3	6	1	6.0	0.5	0
25	Donnie Stone D. Stone	344	1961	DEN	14	38		9.1	24.6	4	505	127	4.0	36.1	4

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Buccaneers	2	5	0	.286
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