most receiving yards in rookie season by 7th round picks

Marques Colston has the most receiving yards by a 7th round pick in his rookie season, with 1,038 yards in 2006.

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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	Marques Colston M. Colston	1,038	2006	NO	14	70	115	14.8	74.1	8	0	0		0.0	0
2	Bob Hayes B. Hayes	1,003	1965	DAL	13	46		21.8	77.2	12	-8	4	-2.0	-0.6	1
3	Lionel Manuel L. Manuel	619	1984	NYG	16	33		18.8	38.7	4	2	3	0.7	0.1	0
4	Alfred Jackson A. Jackson	526	1978	ATL	15	26		20.2	35.1	2	0	0		0.0	0
5	Eric Martin E. Martin	522	1985	NO	16	35		14.9	32.6	4	-1	2	-0.5	-0.1	0
6	Ernie Jones E. Jones	496	1988	PHX	16	23		21.6	31.0	3	0	0		0.0	0
7	Gerry Ellis G. Ellis	496	1980	GB	15	48		10.3	33.1	3	545	126	4.3	36.3	5
8	Dave Stief D. Stief	477	1978	STL	15	24		19.9	31.8	4	-8	1	-8.0	-0.5	0
9	Devaughn Vele D. Vele	475	2024	DEN	13	41	55	11.6	36.5	3	0	0		0.0	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	Kelvin Bryant K. Bryant	449	1986	WAS	10	43		10.4	44.9	3	258	69	3.7	25.8	4
12	Taz Anderson T. Anderson	399	1961	STL	14	22		18.1	28.5	2	39	15	2.6	2.8	1
13	Eric Johnson E. Johnson	362	2001	SF	16	40	64	9.1	22.6	3	0	0		0.0	0
14	Julian Edelman J. Edelman	359	2009	NE	11	37	54	9.7	32.6	1	5	2	2.5	0.5	0
15	Chansi Stuckey C. Stuckey	359	2008	NYJ	15	32	45	11.2	23.9	3	1	1	1.0	0.1	0
16	Sammie Stroughter S. Stroughter	334	2009	TB	13	31	58	10.8	25.7	1	0	0		0.0	0
17	Tez Johnson T. Johnson	322	2025	TB	16	28	44	11.5	20.1	5	22	7	3.1	1.4	0
18	Bob Newland B. Newland	319	1971	NO	14	21		15.2	22.8	0	0	0		0.0	0
19	Freddie Scott F. Scott	317	1974	BAL	14	18		17.6	22.6	0	12	2	6.0	0.9	0
20	Bert Zagers B. Zagers	306	1955	WAS	11	14		21.9	27.8	0	395	89	4.4	35.9	2
21	Ray Perkins R. Perkins	302	1967	BAL	8	16		18.9	37.8	2	0	0		0.0	0
22	George Cheverko G. Cheverko	300	1947	NYG	9	17		17.6	33.3	3	63	19	3.3	7.0	0
23	Olabisi Johnson O. Johnson	294	2019	MIN	16	31	45	9.5	18.4	3	6	1	6.0	0.4	0
24	Harold Carmichael H. Carmichael	288	1971	PHI	9	20		14.4	32.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
25	Jauan Jennings J. Jennings	282	2021	SF	16	24	38	11.8	17.6	5	0	0		0.0	0

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