most receptions through first 5 seasons in nfl history by a tight end

Jimmy Graham had the most receptions by a tight end in his first 5 seasons, with 386 receptions.

	NAME	REC	GP	TRG	REC YDS	AVG	REC YDS/G	REC TD	RUSH YDS	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD
1	Jimmy Graham J. Graham	386	78	595	4,752	12.3	60.9	51	3	1	3.0	0.0	0
2	Jason Witten J. Witten	348	79	497	3,983	11.4	50.4	21	0	0		0.0	0
3	Kellen Winslow K. Winslow	344	64		4,513	13.1	70.5	35	0	0		0.0	0
4	T.J. Hockenson	341	72	500	3,547	10.4	49.3	23	0	1	0.0	0.0	0
5	Antonio Gates A. Gates	340	77	533	4,362	12.8	56.6	43	0	0		0.0	0
6	Mark Andrews M. Andrews	336	77	502	4,313	12.8	56.0	34	8	4	2.0	0.1	0
7	George Kittle G. Kittle	335	67	463	4,489	13.4	67.0	20	69	11	6.3	1.0	0
8	Tony Gonzalez T. Gonzalez	334	79	376	3,958	11.9	50.1	30	9	1	9.0	0.1	0
9	Zach Ertz Z. Ertz	321	75	473	3,664	11.4	48.9	21	0	0		0.0	0
10	Chris Cooley C. Cooley	314	80	482	3,457	11.0	43.2	28	0	0		0.0	0
11	Jeremy Shockey J. Shockey	314	69	530	3,609	11.5	52.3	24	0	0		0.0	0
12	Trey McBride T. McBride	309	61	410	3,115	10.1	51.1	14	2	1	2.0	0.0	1
13	Rob Gronkowski R. Gronkowski	308	65	460	4,379	14.2	67.4	54	2	1	2.0	0.0	1
14	Travis Kelce T. Kelce	307	64	429	3,900	12.7	60.9	22	2	3	0.7	0.0	0
15	Shannon Sharpe S. Sharpe	306	76		3,723	12.2	49.0	20	9	3	3.0	0.1	0
16	Todd Christensen T. Christensen	304	73		3,866	12.7	53.0	31	-6	1	-6.0	-0.1	0
17	Kellen Winslow K. Winslow	296	60	488	3,343	11.3	55.7	16	7	1	7.0	0.1	0
18	Keith Jackson K. Jackson	290	73		3,350	11.6	45.9	25	0	0		0.0	0
19	Charles Clay C. Clay	284	71	424	3,002	10.6	42.3	18	15	7	2.1	0.2	1
20	Brandon Pettigrew B. Pettigrew	284	71	456	2,828	10.0	39.8	16	0	0		0.0	0
21	Mike Ditka M. Ditka	284	70		4,125	14.5	58.9	32	0	0		0.0	0
22	Randy McMichael R. McMichael	283	80	469	3,096	10.9	38.7	18	8	1	8.0	0.1	0
23	Jermaine Gresham J. Gresham	280	74	415	2,722	9.7	36.8	24	0	0		0.0	0
24	Jordan Reed J. Reed	275	52	363	2,813	10.2	54.1	22	18	1	18.0	0.3	0
25	Darren Waller D. Waller	268	59	378	3,166	11.8	53.7	16	26	3	8.7	0.4	0

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