nfl highest yards per reception by a wide reciever with at least 50 catches since 1970

Since 1970, Earl McCullouch has averaged the most yards per reception by a wide receiver when making 50+ catches, with 21.8 per catch.

	NAME	AVG	REC	GP	TRG	REC YDS	REC YDS/G	REC TD	RUSH YDS	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD
1	Earl McCullouch E. McCullouch	21.8	51	47		1,110	23.6	9	12	4	3.0	0.3	0
2	Bobby Duckworth B. Duckworth	21.8	82	62		1,784	28.8	13	0	0		0.0	0
3	Bob Hayes B. Hayes	21.2	119	68		2,526	37.1	22	58	11	5.3	0.9	1
4	Flipper Anderson F. Anderson	20.1	267	114		5,357	47.0	28	23	3	7.7	0.2	0
5	Dwight Scales D. Scales	20.0	56	90		1,120	12.4	4	0	0		0.0	0
6	Willie Gault W. Gault	19.9	333	170		6,635	39.0	44	154	21	7.3	0.9	0
7	Paul Warfield P. Warfield	19.9	212	86		4,219	49.1	41	171	18	9.5	2.0	0
8	John Gilliam J. Gilliam	19.4	284	110		5,511	50.1	38	220	25	8.8	2.0	2
9	Dokie Williams D. Williams	19.4	148	74		2,866	38.7	25	27	3	9.0	0.4	0
10	Stanley Morgan S. Morgan	19.2	557	196		10,716	54.7	72	127	21	6.0	0.6	0
11	Ray Rhodes R. Rhodes	19.2	51	41		980	23.9	7	0	6	0.0	0.0	0
12	Steve Odom S. Odom	19.2	84	81		1,613	19.9	11	205	16	12.8	2.5	1
13	Rickey Watts R. Watts	19.1	81	56		1,547	27.6	8	-23	3	-7.7	-0.4	0
14	Wesley Walker W. Walker	19.0	438	154		8,306	53.9	71	35	6	5.8	0.2	0
15	Mel Gray M. Gray	18.9	351	145		6,644	45.8	45	154	15	10.3	1.1	1
16	Gary Garrison G. Garrison	18.9	223	82		4,217	51.4	35	31	10	3.1	0.4	0
17	Roger Carr R. Carr	18.7	271	115		5,071	44.1	31	-8	1	-8.0	-0.1	0
18	Jimmy Cefalo J. Cefalo	18.7	93	90		1,739	19.3	13	0	0		0.0	0
19	Alec Pierce A. Pierce	18.7	157	64	296	2,934	45.8	17	0	0		0.0	0
20	Kelly Campbell K. Campbell	18.6	57	37	108	1,062	28.7	8	86	14	6.1	2.3	0
21	Jim Smith J. Smith	18.6	113	79		2,103	26.6	25	26	3	8.7	0.3	0
22	Byron Williams B. Williams	18.6	59	37		1,097	29.6	3	18	2	9.0	0.5	0
23	Chris Sanders C. Sanders	18.6	177	97	127	3,285	33.9	17	-36	4	-9.0	-0.4	0
24	Daryl Turner D. Turner	18.5	101	59		1,872	31.7	36	0	0		0.0	0
25	Calvin Muhammad C. Muhammad	18.5	69	47		1,276	27.1	8	0	0		0.0	0

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