most receiving yards in rookie year by a chicago bear

Harlon Hill has the most yards on receptions by a rookie for the Bears, with 1,124 yards in 1954.

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	NAME	REC YDS	SEASON	TM	GP	REC	TRG	AVG	REC YDS/G	REC TD	RUSH YDS	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD
1	Harlon Hill H. Hill	1,124	1954	CHB	12	45		25.0	93.7	12	0	0		0.0	0
2	Mike Ditka M. Ditka	1,076	1961	CHI	14	56		19.2	76.9	12	0	0		0.0	0
3	Willie Gault W. Gault	836	1983	CHI	16	40		20.9	52.3	8	31	4	7.8	1.9	0
4	Rome Odunze R. Odunze	734	2024	CHI	17	54	101	13.6	43.2	3	15	3	5.0	0.9	0
5	Colston Loveland C. Loveland	713	2025	CHI	16	58	82	12.3	44.6	6	-2	1	-2.0	-0.1	0
6	Charlie Wade C. Wade	683	1974	CHI	14	39		17.5	48.8	1	-15	1	-15.0	-1.1	0
7	Luther Burden III L. Burden III	652	2025	CHI	15	47	60	13.9	43.5	2	37	6	6.2	2.5	0
8	Darnell Mooney D. Mooney	631	2020	CHI	16	61	98	10.3	39.4	4	20	4	5.0	1.3	0
9	Ken Margerum K. Margerum	584	1981	CHI	16	39		15.0	36.5	1	11	1	11.0	0.7	0
10	Johnny Knox J. Knox	527	2009	CHI	15	45	80	11.7	35.1	5	0	0		0.0	0
11	James Scott J. Scott	512	1976	CHI	11	26		19.7	46.5	6	-4	2	-2.0	-0.4	0
12	Gale Sayers G. Sayers	507	1965	CHI	14	29		17.5	36.2	6	867	166	5.2	61.9	14
13	George Farmer G. Farmer	496	1970	CHI	11	31		16.0	45.1	2	0	0		0.0	0
14	Angelo Coia A. Coia	478	1960	CHI	12	25		19.1	39.8	4	-4	3	-1.3	-0.3	0
15	Matt Forte M. Forte	477	2008	CHI	16	63	76	7.6	29.8	4	1,238	316	3.9	77.4	8
16	Gene Schroeder G. Schroeder	461	1951	CHB	12	24		19.2	38.4	3	4	1	4.0	0.3	0
17	Anthony Miller A. Miller	423	2018	CHI	15	33	54	12.8	28.2	7	26	6	4.3	1.7	0
18	Rickey Watts R. Watts	421	1979	CHI	16	24		17.5	26.3	3	-6	1	-6.0	-0.4	0
19	Willard Dewveall W. Dewveall	420	1959	CHB	11	20		21.0	38.2	3	0	0		0.0	0
20	David Terrell D. Terrell	415	2001	CHI	16	34	63	12.2	25.9	4	0	0		0.0	0
21	Tim Wrightman T. Wrightman	407	1985	CHI	16	24		17.0	25.4	1	0	0		0.0	0
22	Greg Olsen G. Olsen	391	2007	CHI	14	39	66	10.0	27.9	2	0	0		0.0	0
23	Bobby Engram B. Engram	389	1996	CHI	16	33		11.8	24.3	6	0	0		0.0	0
24	Ron Morris R. Morris	379	1987	CHI	12	20		19.0	31.6	1	0	0		0.0	0
25	John Hoffman J. Hoffman	373	1949	CHB	12	25		14.9	31.1	2	216	53	4.1	18.0	1

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