most yards per attempt in a career minimum 1000 attempts

Jason Witten has the most career yards per attempt with 1,000+ attempts, with 42.0 yards per attempt.

Interpreted as:

most yards by a player per attempt in a career minimum 1000 attempts

	NAME	AVG	ATT	GP	YDS	YDS/G	TD	RUSH YDS	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD	REC YDS	REC YDS/G	REC TD	KR YDS	KR YDS/G	KR TD	PR YDS	PR YDS/G	PR TD
1	Jason Witten J. Witten	42.0	1,230	271	13,046	48.1	74	0	0.0	0	13,046	48.1	74	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0
2	Tony Gonzalez T. Gonzalez	18.0	1,332	270	15,141	56.1	111	14	0.1	0	15,127	56.0	111	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0
3	Randy Moss R. Moss	8.0	1,036	218	15,646	71.8	157	159	0.7	0	15,292	70.1	156	33	0.2	0	162	0.7	1
4	Wes Welker W. Welker	7.9	1,384	175	16,797	96.0	51	151	0.9	0	9,924	56.7	50	4,138	23.6	1	2,584	14.8	0
5	Jerry Rice J. Rice	7.4	1,647	303	23,546	77.7	208	645	2.1	10	22,895	75.6	197	6	0.0	0	0	0.0	0
6	Hines Ward H. Ward	7.4	1,068	217	12,723	58.6	86	428	2.0	1	12,083	55.7	85	210	1.0	0	2	0.0	0
7	Ted Ginn T. Ginn	7.2	1,062	193	15,742	81.6	42	486	2.5	2	5,742	29.8	33	6,899	35.7	3	2,624	13.6	4
8	Tyreek Hill T. Hill	7.1	1,047	145	13,681	94.4	96	819	5.6	7	11,363	78.4	83	384	2.6	1	1,055	7.3	4
9	Steve Smith Sr. S. Smith Sr.	6.7	1,380	219	19,180	87.6	89	387	1.8	2	14,731	67.3	81	2,371	10.8	2	1,684	7.7	4
10	Isaac Bruce I. Bruce	6.7	1,051	223	15,399	69.1	91	139	0.6	0	15,208	68.2	91	0	0.0	0	52	0.2	0
11	Andre Reed A. Reed	6.6	1,039	234	13,712	58.6	88	500	2.1	1	13,198	56.4	87	0	0.0	0	12	0.1	0
12	Lamar Jackson L. Jackson	6.6	1,110	116	6,471	55.8	35	6,522	56.2	35	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0
13	Tyler Lockett T. Lockett	6.6	1,006	178	13,416	75.4	67	265	1.5	1	8,885	49.9	62	3,188	17.9	2	1,078	6.1	1
14	Keenan Allen K. Allen	6.5	1,110	171	12,458	72.9	71	113	0.7	0	12,051	70.5	70	25	0.1	0	229	1.3	0
15	Terrell Owens T. Owens	6.4	1,124	219	16,276	74.3	156	251	1.1	3	15,934	72.8	153	78	0.4	0	0	0.0	0
16	Russell Wilson R. Wilson	6.3	1,092	205	5,514	26.9	32	5,568	27.2	31	21	0.1	1	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0
17	Cam Newton C. Newton	6.0	1,141	148	5,607	37.9	76	5,631	38.0	75	68	0.5	1	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0
18	Art Monk A. Monk	5.8	1,008	224	13,063	58.3	68	332	1.5	0	12,721	56.8	68	10	0.0	0	0	0.0	0
19	Irving Fryar I. Fryar	5.4	1,132	255	15,594	61.2	88	242	0.9	1	12,785	50.1	84	505	2.0	0	2,055	8.1	3
20	Jamaal Charles J. Charles	5.4	1,776	119	11,402	95.8	65	7,563	63.6	44	2,593	21.8	20	1,246	10.5	1	0	0.0	0
21	Brian Mitchell B. Mitchell	5.2	1,733	223	23,330	104.6	29	1,967	8.8	12	2,336	10.5	4	14,014	62.8	4	4,999	22.4	9
22	Mercury Morris M. Morris	5.1	1,000	99	7,794	78.7	35	4,133	41.7	31	543	5.5	1	2,947	29.8	3	171	1.7	0
23	Paul Lowe P. Lowe	5.1	1,202	100	7,451	74.5	46	4,995	50.0	38	1,045	10.5	7	1,411	14.1	0	0	0.0	0
24	Nick Chubb N. Chubb	5.0	1,604	100	8,458	84.6	59	7,349	73.5	54	1,109	11.1	5	0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0
25	Gale Sayers G. Sayers	5.0	1,234	68	9,435	138.8	56	4,956	72.9	39	1,307	19.2	9	2,781	40.9	6	391	5.8	2

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