most receiving yards through first 21 games 1979

John Stallworth had the most yards on receptions in his first 21 games in 1979, with 1,442 yards.

Interpreted as:

most receiving yards by a player through first 21 games 1979

	NAME	REC YDS	SEASON	TM	GP	REC	AVG	REC YDS/G	REC TD	RUSH YDS	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD
1	John Stallworth J. Stallworth	1,442	1979	PIT	19	82	17.6	75.9	11	0	0		0.0	0
2	Steve Largent S. Largent	1,237	1979	SEA	15	66	18.7	82.5	9	0	0		0.0	0
3	John Jefferson J. Jefferson	1,160	1979	SD	16	65	17.8	72.5	10	0	0		0.0	0
4	Ahmad Rashad A. Rashad	1,156	1979	MIN	16	80	14.5	72.3	9	0	0		0.0	0
5	Charlie Joiner C. Joiner	1,089	1979	SD	17	76	14.3	64.1	4	-12	1	-12.0	-0.7	0
6	Drew Pearson D. Pearson	1,087	1979	DAL	16	58	18.7	67.9	8	27	3	9.0	1.7	0
7	Frank Lewis F. Lewis	1,082	1979	BUF	15	54	20.0	72.1	2	-6	2	-3.0	-0.4	0
8	Harold Carmichael H. Carmichael	1,075	1979	PHI	18	61	17.6	59.7	14	0	1	0.0	0.0	0
9	Wes Chandler W. Chandler	1,069	1979	NO	16	65	16.4	66.8	6	0	0		0.0	0
10	Tony Hill T. Hill	1,062	1979	DAL	17	61	17.4	62.5	10	18	2	9.0	1.1	0
11	Harold Jackson H. Jackson	1,013	1979	NE	16	45	22.5	63.3	7	12	3	4.0	0.8	0
12	Wally Francis W. Francis	1,013	1979	ATL	16	74	13.7	63.3	8	0	0		0.0	0
13	Stanley Morgan S. Morgan	1,002	1979	NE	16	44	22.8	62.6	12	39	7	5.6	2.4	0
14	Haven Moses H. Moses	990	1979	DEN	17	57	17.4	58.2	6	0	0		0.0	0
15	Lynn Swann L. Swann	988	1979	PIT	16	53	18.6	61.8	7	9	1	9.0	0.6	1
16	Dave Logan D. Logan	982	1979	CLE	16	59	16.6	61.4	7	0	0		0.0	0
17	James Lofton J. Lofton	968	1979	GB	16	54	17.9	60.5	4	-1	1	-1.0	-0.1	0
18	Pat Tilley P. Tilley	938	1979	STL	16	57	16.5	58.6	6	0	0		0.0	0
19	Rick Upchurch R. Upchurch	937	1979	DEN	17	64	14.6	55.1	7	20	4	5.0	1.2	0
20	Nat Moore N. Moore	933	1979	MIA	17	53	17.6	54.9	6	22	3	7.3	1.3	0
21	Freddie Scott F. Scott	929	1979	DET	14	62	15.0	66.4	5	21	6	3.5	1.5	0
22	Preston Dennard P. Dennard	869	1979	LA	18	49	17.7	48.3	4	32	4	8.0	1.8	0
23	Duriel Harris D. Harris	859	1979	MIA	16	45	19.1	53.7	4	20	1	20.0	1.3	0
24	Alfred Jenkins A. Jenkins	858	1979	ATL	16	50	17.2	53.6	3	0	0		0.0	0
25	Henry Childs H. Childs	846	1979	NO	16	51	16.6	52.9	5	0	0		0.0	0

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