nfl player most games 1 or more return touchdown in career

Devin Hester and Deion Sanders are tied for the most games when making 1+ touchdown return in their careers, with 18 games.

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Data note: Touchdown Returns: player game data complete from 1950

	NAME	GP	RET TD	KR	KR YDS	KR AVG	KR YDS/G	KR TD	PR	PR YDS	PR AVG	PR YDS/G	PR TD
1	Devin Hester D. Hester	18	20	37	1,172	31.7	65.1	5	54	1,462	27.1	81.2	14
2	Deion Sanders D. Sanders	18	19	16	467	29.2	25.9	3	28	566	20.2	31.4	6
3	Rod Woodson R. Woodson	17	17	11	368	33.5	21.6	2	20	250	12.5	14.7	2
4	Ed Reed E. Reed	13	13	0	0		0.0	0	2	68	34.0	5.2	1
5	Ronde Barber R. Barber	13	14	0	0		0.0	0	1	23	23.0	1.8	1
6	Charles Woodson C. Woodson	13	13	1	18	18.0	1.4	0	11	63	5.7	4.8	0
7	Darren Sharper D. Sharper	13	13	1	3	3.0	0.2	0	2	25	12.5	1.9	0
8	Brian Mitchell B. Mitchell	13	13	29	1,117	38.5	85.9	4	31	849	27.4	65.3	9
9	Aeneas Williams A. Williams	12	13	0	0		0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
10	Dante Hall D. Hall	11	12	39	1,331	34.1	121.0	6	28	683	24.4	62.1	6
11	Lem Barney L. Barney	11	11	3	184	61.3	16.7	1	29	369	12.7	33.5	2
12	Aqib Talib A. Talib	10	10	0	0		0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
13	Josh Cribbs J. Cribbs	10	11	45	1,628	36.2	162.8	8	21	430	20.5	43.0	3
14	DeAngelo Hall D. Hall	10	10	0	0		0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
15	Eric Metcalf E. Metcalf	10	12	11	393	35.7	39.3	2	23	883	38.4	88.3	10
16	LeRoy Irvin L. Irvin	10	11	0	0		0.0	0	13	353	27.2	35.3	4
17	Lemar Parrish L. Parrish	10	13	7	247	35.3	24.7	1	14	347	24.8	34.7	4
18	Ken Houston K. Houston	10	12	1	13	13.0	1.3	0	9	114	12.7	11.4	1
19	Cordarrelle Patterson C. Patterson	9	9	28	1,396	49.9	155.1	9	0	0		0.0	0
20	Janoris Jenkins J. Jenkins	9	10	0	0		0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
21	Jacoby Jones J. Jones	9	9	18	815	45.3	90.6	5	27	489	18.1	54.3	4
22	Charles Tillman C. Tillman	9	9	0	0		0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
23	Nate Clements N. Clements	9	9	6	118	19.7	13.1	0	6	169	28.2	18.8	2
24	Jason Taylor J. Taylor	9	9	0	0		0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
25	Mel Gray M. Gray	9	9	25	1,002	40.1	111.3	6	13	309	23.8	34.3	3

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