Lionel Taylor had the most receiving yards by a tight end in 1961, with 1,176 yards.

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	NAME	REC YDS	SEASON	TM	GP	REC	AVG	REC YDS/G	REC TD	RUSH YDS	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD
1	Lionel Taylor L. Taylor	1,176	1961	DEN	14	100	11.8	84.0	4	0	0		0.0	0
2	Jim Phillips J. Phillips	1,092	1961	LA	14	78	14.0	78.0	5	0	0		0.0	0
3	Mike Ditka M. Ditka	1,076	1961	CHI	14	56	19.2	76.9	12	0	0		0.0	0
4	Monty Stickles M. Stickles	794	1961	SF	14	43	18.5	56.7	5	0	0		0.0	0
5	Doug Asad D. Asad	592	1961	OAK	14	42	14.1	42.3	2	0	0		0.0	0
6	Jim Gibbons J. Gibbons	566	1961	DET	14	45	12.6	40.4	1	0	0		0.0	0
7	Ron Kramer R. Kramer	559	1961	GB	14	35	16.0	39.9	4	13	5	2.6	0.9	0
8	Joe Walton J. Walton	544	1961	NYG	12	36	15.1	45.3	2	0	0		0.0	0
9	Bobby Joe Conrad B. Joe Conrad	499	1961	STL	14	30	16.6	35.6	2	22	20	1.1	1.6	0
10	Preston Carpenter P. Carpenter	460	1961	PIT	13	33	13.9	35.4	4	9	7	1.3	0.7	0
11	Tom Rychlec T. Rychlec	405	1961	BUF	14	33	12.3	28.9	2	-18	1	-18.0	-1.3	0
12	Taz Anderson T. Anderson	399	1961	STL	14	22	18.1	28.5	2	39	15	2.6	2.8	1
13	Dick Bielski D. Bielski	377	1961	DLC	14	26	14.5	26.9	3	0	0		0.0	0
14	Jim Mutscheller J. Mutscheller	370	1961	BAL	12	20	18.5	30.8	2	0	0		0.0	0
15	Monte Crockett M. Crockett	325	1961	BUF	14	20	16.3	23.2	0	0	0		0.0	0
16	Gordon Smith G. Smith	320	1961	MIN	9	12	26.7	35.6	4	0	0		0.0	0
17	Gern Nagler G. Nagler	241	1961	CLE	13	19	12.7	18.5	1	0	0		0.0	0
18	John White J. White	238	1961	HOU	14	13	18.3	17.0	1	0	0		0.0	0
19	Leon Clarke L. Clarke	211	1961	CLE	13	11	19.2	16.2	2	0	0		0.0	0
20	Thurlow Cooper T. Cooper	208	1961	NYT	14	15	13.9	14.9	4	0	0		0.0	0
21	Willard Dewveall W. Dewveall	200	1961	HOU	7	12	16.7	28.6	3	0	0		0.0	0
22	Tom Stephens T. Stephens	186	1961	BOS	9	19	9.8	20.7	2	0	0		0.0	0
23	Howard Clark H. Clark	182	1961	SD	10	11	16.5	18.2	0	0	0		0.0	0
24	Bob McLeod B. McLeod	172	1961	HOU	14	14	12.3	12.3	2	0	0		0.0	0
25	Max Boydston M. Boydston	167	1961	DLT	11	12	13.9	15.2	1	0	0		0.0	0

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Thu 10/15	SEA	@	DEN	8:15 PM
Sun 10/25	DEN	@	ARI	4:05 PM
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Raiders	3	1	0	.750
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