most return touchdowns between 1980 to 2000

Between the 1980 and 2000 seasons, Deion Sanders had the most touchdown returns, with 18 touchdown returns.

Interpreted as:

most return touchdowns by a player between 1980 to 2000

	NAME	RET TD	GP	KR	KR YDS	KR AVG	KR YDS/G	KR TD	PR	PR YDS	PR AVG	PR YDS/G	PR TD
1	Deion Sanders D. Sanders	18	163	155	3,523	22.7	21.6	3	207	2,158	10.4	13.2	6
2	Rod Woodson R. Woodson	14	196	220	4,894	22.2	25.0	2	260	2,362	9.1	12.1	2
3	Brian Mitchell B. Mitchell	11	175	468	10,710	22.9	61.2	3	349	3,811	10.9	21.8	8
4	Eric Metcalf E. Metcalf	11	168	277	5,747	20.7	34.2	2	315	3,042	9.7	18.1	9
5	LeRoy Irvin L. Irvin	11	159	4	60	15.0	0.4	0	147	1,457	9.9	9.2	4
6	Darrien Gordon D. Gordon	9	109	1	17	17.0	0.2	0	248	2,984	12.0	27.4	6
7	Aeneas Williams A. Williams	9	160	0	0		0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
8	Mel Gray M. Gray	9	169	421	10,250	24.3	60.7	6	252	2,753	10.9	16.3	3
9	Tamarick Vanover T. Vanover	8	70	212	5,099	24.1	72.8	4	181	1,930	10.7	27.6	4
10	Desmond Howard D. Howard	8	135	276	5,926	21.5	43.9	0	213	2,646	12.4	19.6	8
11	Dave Meggett D. Meggett	8	146	252	5,566	22.1	38.1	1	349	3,708	10.6	25.4	7
12	Eric Allen E. Allen	8	201	1	2	2.0	0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
13	Cris Dishman C. Dishman	8	199	0	0		0.0	0	1	0	0.0	0.0	0
14	Terry McDaniel T. McDaniel	8	152	0	0		0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
15	Darrell Green D. Green	8	263	1	9	9.0	0.0	0	51	576	11.3	2.2	0
16	Tyrone Hughes T. Hughes	7	81	283	6,999	24.7	86.4	3	162	1,411	8.7	17.4	2
17	Darryll Lewis D. Lewis	7	141	8	171	21.4	1.2	0	0	0		0.0	0
18	Anthony Parker A. Parker	7	104	2	30	15.0	0.3	0	46	431	9.4	4.1	0
19	Erik McMillan E. McMillan	7	86	22	420	19.1	4.9	0	0	0		0.0	0
20	Jermaine Lewis J. Lewis	6	73	97	2,114	21.8	29.0	0	189	2,211	11.7	30.3	6
21	Dewayne Washington D. Washington	6	111	0	0		0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
22	Terrell Buckley T. Buckley	6	142	2	64	32.0	0.5	0	78	746	9.6	5.3	1
23	Merton Hanks M. Hanks	6	137	0	0		0.0	0	2	48	24.0	0.4	1
24	Jessie Tuggle J. Tuggle	6	209	0	0		0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
25	Kevin Ross K. Ross	6	204	0	0		0.0	0	2	0	0.0	0.0	0

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