nfl player most punt return yard in playoffs

Julian Edelman has gained the most career punt-return yards in the playoffs, with 443 yards.

	NAME	PR YDS	GP	KR	KR YDS	KR AVG	KR YDS/G	KR TD	PR	PR AVG	PR YDS/G	PR TD
1	Julian Edelman J. Edelman	443	19	4	83	20.8	4.4	0	39	11.4	23.3	0
2	Brian Mitchell B. Mitchell	339	16	36	875	24.3	54.7	1	34	10.0	21.2	0
3	Troy Brown T. Brown	315	20	5	85	17.0	4.3	0	33	9.5	15.8	1
4	Dave Meggett D. Meggett	312	13	25	427	17.1	32.8	0	34	9.2	24.0	0
5	Antwaan Randle El A. Randle El	288	12	10	183	18.3	15.3	0	26	11.1	24.0	1
6	Anthony Carter A. Carter	259	9	0	0		0.0	0	17	15.2	28.8	1
7	Allen Rossum A. Rossum	239	6	20	416	20.8	69.3	0	10	23.9	39.8	1
8	Darrien Gordon D. Gordon	229	14	0	0		0.0	0	24	9.5	16.4	0
9	Jermaine Lewis J. Lewis	224	6	11	293	26.6	48.8	1	16	14.0	37.3	1
10	Neal Colzie N. Colzie	221	10	0	0		0.0	0	18	12.3	22.1	0
11	Robert Brooks R. Brooks	214	11	2	36	18.0	3.3	0	14	15.3	19.5	0
12	Gerald McNeil G. McNeil	211	8	14	246	17.6	30.8	0	21	10.0	26.4	0
13	Desmond Howard D. Howard	210	3	9	277	30.8	92.3	1	9	23.3	70.0	1
14	Butch Johnson B. Johnson	208	18	12	207	17.3	11.5	0	19	10.9	11.6	0
15	Theo Bell T. Bell	204	10	2	76	38.0	7.6	0	25	8.2	20.4	0
16	John Taylor J. Taylor	189	17	2	64	32.0	3.8	0	18	10.5	11.1	0
17	DeSean Jackson D. Jackson	174	8	0	0		0.0	0	11	15.8	21.8	0
18	Micah Hyde M. Hyde	173	17	2	38	19.0	2.2	0	13	13.3	10.2	0
19	Derrick Mason D. Mason	173	17	17	492	28.9	28.9	1	21	8.2	10.2	0
20	Darren Sproles D. Sproles	170	12	31	770	24.8	64.2	0	21	8.1	14.2	0
21	Terrence Wilkins T. Wilkins	167	6	20	386	19.3	64.3	0	15	11.1	27.8	0
22	Mike Nelms M. Nelms	164	5	13	308	23.7	61.6	0	15	10.9	32.8	0
23	Mike Fuller M. Fuller	161	7	0	0		0.0	0	13	12.4	23.0	0
24	Dana McLemore D. McLemore	156	7	7	142	20.3	20.3	0	17	9.2	22.3	0
25	Bob Hayes B. Hayes	151	15	1	16	16.0	1.1	0	12	12.6	10.1	0

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