nfl career receiving yards leaders for active players

Mike Evans has the most career receiving yards by an active player, with 13,472 yards.

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Data note: Receiving Yards: player season data complete from 1932

	NAME	REC YDS	GP	REC	TRG	AVG	REC YDS/G	REC TD	RUSH YDS	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD
1	Mike Evans M. Evans	13,472	182	893	1,533	15.1	74.0	111	10	1	10.0	0.1	0
2	Travis Kelce T. Kelce	13,301	197	1,100	1,535	12.1	67.5	84	16	10	1.6	0.1	2
3	Davante Adams D. Adams	13,113	184	1,047	1,671	12.5	71.3	121	-1	3	-0.3	0.0	0
4	Keenan Allen K. Allen	12,278	176	1,081	1,591	11.4	69.8	71	113	18	6.3	0.6	0
5	Stefon Diggs S. Diggs	11,718	166	966	1,382	12.1	70.6	78	170	35	4.9	1.0	1
6	Brandin Cooks B. Cooks	9,831	176	736	1,140	13.4	55.9	61	341	58	5.9	1.9	2
7	Justin Jefferson J. Jefferson	8,738	98	598	895	14.6	89.2	45	27	16	1.7	0.3	1
8	Zach Ertz Z. Ertz	8,614	184	828	1,231	10.4	46.8	57	4	1	4.0	0.0	0
9	Cooper Kupp C. Kupp	8,548	126	697	986	12.3	67.8	60	139	26	5.3	1.1	1
10	DJ Moore	8,391	135	620	997	13.5	62.2	42	515	74	7.0	3.8	2
11	George Kittle G. Kittle	8,345	130	621	838	13.4	64.2	57	68	13	5.2	0.5	0
12	A.J. Brown	8,130	108	533	836	15.3	75.3	56	70	5	14.0	0.6	1
13	CeeDee Lamb C. Lamb	7,993	101	619	906	12.9	79.1	45	384	60	6.4	3.8	3
14	Odell Beckham Jr. O. Beckham Jr.	7,987	122	575	963	13.9	65.5	59	170	23	7.4	1.4	1
15	Chris Godwin Jr. C. Godwin Jr.	7,842	126	635	896	12.3	62.2	41	92	16	5.8	0.7	2
16	DK Metcalf	7,548	119	529	883	14.3	63.4	55	40	6	6.7	0.3	1
17	Terry McLaurin T. McLaurin	7,191	112	513	813	14.0	64.2	42	73	12	6.1	0.7	0
18	Ja'Marr Chase J. Chase	7,126	83	547	805	13.0	85.9	58	69	21	3.3	0.8	0
19	Amon-Ra St. Brown A. St. Brown	6,624	88	584	799	11.3	75.3	49	195	25	7.8	2.2	1
20	Courtland Sutton C. Sutton	6,480	121	466	798	13.9	53.6	40	21	5	4.2	0.2	0
21	Mark Andrews M. Andrews	6,133	127	507	735	12.1	48.3	57	61	19	3.2	0.5	1
22	Tee Higgins T. Higgins	5,864	90	416	653	14.1	65.2	46	28	5	5.6	0.3	0
23	Calvin Ridley C. Ridley	5,759	96	410	682	14.0	60.0	40	140	30	4.7	1.5	1
24	Deebo Samuel Sr. D. Samuel Sr.	5,725	102	422	629	13.6	56.1	30	1,296	228	5.7	12.7	21
25	Jakobi Meyers J. Meyers	5,712	113	488	717	11.7	50.5	25	69	17	4.1	0.6	2

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Packers	4	2	0	.667
Lions	3	2	0	.600
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