most receiving yards tight ends in the 1960s

Between the 1960 and 1969 seasons, Mike Ditka had the most yards on receptions by a tight end, with 5,156 yards.

	NAME	REC YDS	GP	REC	AVG	REC YDS/G	REC TD	RUSH YDS	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD
1	Mike Ditka M. Ditka	5,156	116	372	13.9	44.4	41	0	0		0.0	0
2	Jackie Smith J. Smith	5,115	98	309	16.6	52.2	23	257	26	9.9	2.6	3
3	John Mackey J. Mackey	4,548	98	281	16.2	46.4	35	109	16	6.8	1.1	0
4	Pete Retzlaff P. Retzlaff	4,177	62	244	17.1	67.4	31	0	0		0.0	0
5	Aaron Thomas A. Thomas	3,733	81	215	17.4	46.1	31	14	2	7.0	0.2	0
6	Preston Carpenter P. Carpenter	3,089	101	209	14.8	30.6	18	36	28	1.3	0.4	0
7	Fred Arbanas F. Arbanas	2,993	112	190	15.8	26.7	33	15	4	3.8	0.1	0
8	Monty Stickles M. Stickles	2,947	103	200	14.7	28.6	16	0	0		0.0	0
9	Ron Kramer R. Kramer	2,880	93	197	14.6	31.0	16	9	6	1.5	0.1	0
10	Jim Whalen J. Whalen	2,487	70	153	16.3	35.5	17	0	1	0.0	0.0	0
11	Jerry Smith J. Smith	2,474	56	194	12.8	44.2	29	8	3	2.7	0.1	0
12	Dave Kocourek D. Kocourek	2,373	87	154	15.4	27.3	19	0	0		0.0	0
13	Willie Frazier W. Frazier	2,256	74	147	15.3	30.5	25	0	0		0.0	0
14	Jim Gibbons J. Gibbons	2,159	104	180	12.0	20.8	15	0	0		0.0	0
15	Jim Phillips J. Phillips	1,967	28	138	14.3	70.3	10	0	0		0.0	0
16	Bob McLeod B. McLeod	1,926	84	126	15.3	22.9	19	0	0		0.0	0
17	Pete Lammons P. Lammons	1,880	55	151	12.5	34.2	11	0	0		0.0	0
18	Jacque MacKinnon J. MacKinnon	1,878	86	97	19.4	21.8	18	124	24	5.2	1.4	2
19	Billy Cannon B. Cannon	1,814	65	97	18.7	27.9	20	0	0		0.0	0
20	Tony Romeo T. Romeo	1,813	89	117	15.5	20.4	10	0	0		0.0	0
21	Frank Clarke F. Clarke	1,774	42	115	15.4	42.2	10	176	22	8.0	4.2	1
22	Billy Truax B. Truax	1,757	80	144	12.2	22.0	13	0	0		0.0	0
23	Milt Morin M. Morin	1,710	45	110	15.5	38.0	8	38	3	12.7	0.8	0
24	Paul Costa P. Costa	1,699	52	102	16.7	32.7	6	12	2	6.0	0.2	1
25	Marlin McKeever M. McKeever	1,585	65	122	13.0	24.4	6	0	0		0.0	0

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