nfl most receiving yards for a player in 1980

John Jefferson had the most yards on receptions in 1980, with 1,340 yards.

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	NAME	REC YDS	SEASON	TM	GP	REC	AVG	REC YDS/G	REC TD	RUSH YDS	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD
1	John Jefferson J. Jefferson	1,340	1980	SD	16	82	16.3	83.8	13	16	1	16.0	1.0	0
2	Kellen Winslow K. Winslow	1,290	1980	SD	16	89	14.5	80.6	9	0	0		0.0	0
3	James Lofton J. Lofton	1,226	1980	GB	16	71	17.3	76.6	4	0	0		0.0	0
4	Charlie Joiner C. Joiner	1,132	1980	SD	16	71	15.9	70.8	4	0	0		0.0	0
5	Ahmad Rashad A. Rashad	1,095	1980	MIN	16	69	15.9	68.4	5	8	1	8.0	0.5	0
6	Steve Largent S. Largent	1,064	1980	SEA	16	66	16.1	66.5	6	2	1	2.0	0.1	0
7	Tony Hill T. Hill	1,055	1980	DAL	16	60	17.6	65.9	8	27	4	6.8	1.7	0
8	Alfred Jenkins A. Jenkins	1,035	1980	ATL	16	58	17.8	64.7	6	0	0		0.0	0
9	Dwight Clark D. Clark	991	1980	SF	16	82	12.1	61.9	8	0	0		0.0	0
10	Stanley Morgan S. Morgan	991	1980	NE	16	45	22.0	61.9	6	36	4	9.0	2.3	0
11	Wes Chandler W. Chandler	975	1980	NO	16	65	15.0	60.9	6	9	1	9.0	0.6	0
12	Pat Tilley P. Tilley	966	1980	STL	14	68	14.2	69.0	6	0	0		0.0	0
13	Roger Carr R. Carr	924	1980	BAL	16	61	15.1	57.8	5	-8	1	-8.0	-0.5	0
14	Sammy White S. White	887	1980	MIN	16	53	16.7	55.4	5	65	4	16.3	4.1	0
15	Sam McCullum S. McCullum	874	1980	SEA	16	62	14.1	54.6	6	0	0		0.0	0
16	Wally Francis W. Francis	862	1980	ATL	16	54	16.0	53.9	7	2	1	2.0	0.1	0
17	Cliff Branch C. Branch	858	1980	OAK	16	44	19.5	53.6	7	1	1	1.0	0.1	0
18	Freddie Scott F. Scott	834	1980	DET	16	53	15.7	52.1	4	86	5	17.2	5.4	1
19	Jerry Butler J. Butler	832	1980	BUF	16	57	14.6	52.0	6	18	1	18.0	1.1	0
20	Charlie Smith C. Smith	825	1980	PHI	16	47	17.6	51.6	3	33	5	6.6	2.1	0
21	Dave Logan D. Logan	822	1980	CLE	16	51	16.1	51.4	4	0	0		0.0	0
22	Harold Carmichael H. Carmichael	815	1980	PHI	16	48	17.0	50.9	9	0	0		0.0	0
23	Henry Marshall H. Marshall	799	1980	KC	16	47	17.0	49.9	6	22	3	7.3	1.4	0
24	Art Monk A. Monk	797	1980	WAS	16	58	13.7	49.8	3	0	0		0.0	0
25	Dave Casper D. Casper	796	1980	TOT	16	56	14.2	49.8	4	8	2	4.0	0.5	0

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