most receiving yards by a rookie in one season vikings

Justin Jefferson has the most yards on receptions by a rookie for the Vikings, with 1,400 yards in 2020.

	NAME	REC YDS	SEASON	TM	GP	REC	TRG	AVG	REC YDS/G	REC TD	RUSH YDS	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD
1	Justin Jefferson J. Jefferson	1,400	2020	MIN	16	88	125	15.9	87.5	7	2	1	2.0	0.1	0
2	Randy Moss R. Moss	1,313	1998	MIN	16	69		19.0	82.1	17	4	1	4.0	0.3	0
3	Jordan Addison J. Addison	911	2023	MIN	17	70	108	13.0	53.6	10	2	1	2.0	0.1	0
4	Sammy White S. White	906	1976	MIN	14	51		17.8	64.7	10	-10	5	-2.0	-0.7	0
5	Paul Flatley P. Flatley	867	1963	MIN	14	51		17.0	61.9	4	0	0		0.0	0
6	Anthony Carter A. Carter	821	1985	MIN	16	43		19.1	51.3	8	0	0		0.0	0
7	Percy Harvin P. Harvin	790	2009	MIN	15	60	91	13.2	52.7	6	135	15	9.0	9.0	0
8	Stefon Diggs S. Diggs	720	2015	MIN	13	52	84	13.8	55.4	4	13	3	4.3	1.0	0
9	Hassan Jones H. Jones	570	1986	MIN	16	28		20.4	35.6	4	14	1	14.0	0.9	0
10	Charles Johnson C. Johnson	475	2014	MIN	12	31	59	15.3	39.6	2	-11	1	-11.0	-0.9	0
11	Cordarrelle Patterson C. Patterson	469	2013	MIN	16	45	77	10.4	29.3	4	158	12	13.2	9.9	3
12	Nate Burleson N. Burleson	455	2003	MIN	16	29	57	15.7	28.4	2	0	0		0.0	0
13	Joe Senser J. Senser	447	1980	MIN	16	42		10.6	27.9	7	-1	1	-1.0	-0.1	0
14	Sidney Rice S. Rice	396	2007	MIN	13	31	53	12.8	30.5	4	0	0		0.0	0
15	Gene Washington G. Washington	384	1967	MIN	14	13		29.5	27.4	2	0	0		0.0	0
16	Troy Williamson T. Williamson	372	2005	MIN	14	24	52	15.5	26.6	2	28	3	9.3	2.0	0
17	Chuck Foreman C. Foreman	362	1973	MIN	12	37		9.8	30.2	2	801	182	4.4	66.8	4
18	Ray Poage R. Poage	354	1963	MIN	7	15		23.6	50.6	2	0	0		0.0	0
19	Andrew Jordan A. Jordan	336	1994	MIN	16	35		9.6	21.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
20	Gordon Smith G. Smith	320	1961	MIN	9	12		26.7	35.6	4	0	0		0.0	0
21	Irv Smith Jr. I. Smith Jr.	311	2019	MIN	16	36	47	8.6	19.4	2	0	0		0.0	0
22	Jarius Wright J. Wright	310	2012	MIN	7	22	36	14.1	44.3	2	11	2	5.5	1.6	0
23	Hal Bedsole H. Bedsole	295	1964	MIN	14	18		16.4	21.1	5	0	0		0.0	0
24	Olabisi Johnson O. Johnson	294	2019	MIN	16	31	45	9.5	18.4	3	6	1	6.0	0.4	0
25	Oscar Donahue O. Donahue	285	1962	MIN	13	16		17.8	21.9	1	0	0		0.0	0

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