nfl player with most yards per reception 1978

Terry Anderson had the most receiving yards per reception in 1978, with 56.

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	NAME	YDS/REC	REC YDS	REC	SEASON	TM	GP	AVG	REC YDS/G	REC TD	RUSH YDS	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD
1	Terry Anderson T. Anderson	56	56	1	1978	TOT	14	56.0	4.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
2	Kevin Miller K. Miller	35	35	1	1978	MIN	16	35.0	2.2	1	0	0		0.0	0
3	Greg McCrary G. McCrary	29	29	1	1978	TOT	13	29.0	2.2	1	18	2	9.0	1.4	0
4	Dwight McDonald D. McDonald	28	84	3	1978	SD	12	28.0	7.0	1	0	0		0.0	0
5	Carlos Pennywell C. Pennywell	28	28	1	1978	NE	16	28.0	1.8	0	0	0		0.0	0
6	Bo Rather B. Rather	27.5	55	2	1978	TOT	9	27.5	6.1	0	0	0		0.0	0
7	Larry Hardy L. Hardy	26.2	131	5	1978	NO	16	26.2	8.2	1	0	0		0.0	0
8	Larry Burton L. Burton	25.4	127	5	1978	SD	3	25.4	42.3	3	0	0		0.0	0
9	Mike Siani M. Siani	25.17	151	6	1978	BAL	7	25.2	21.6	1	0	0		0.0	0
10	Danny Reece D. Reece	25	25	1	1978	TB	15	25.0	1.7	0	0	0		0.0	0
11	Wesley Walker W. Walker	24.35	1,169	48	1978	NYJ	16	24.4	73.1	8	-3	1	-3.0	-0.2	0
12	Jimmy Cefalo J. Cefalo	24.17	145	6	1978	MIA	16	24.2	9.1	3	0	0		0.0	0
13	Stanley Morgan S. Morgan	24.12	820	34	1978	NE	16	24.1	51.3	5	11	2	5.5	0.7	0
14	Harry Washington H. Washington	24	24	1	1978	MIN	10	24.0	2.4	0	0	0		0.0	0
15	Vince Kinney V. Kinney	23	23	1	1978	DEN	8	23.0	2.9	0	0	0		0.0	0
16	Jack Steptoe J. Steptoe	23	46	2	1978	SF	6	23.0	7.7	1	0	0		0.0	0
17	Tony Green T. Green	22.25	89	4	1978	WAS	16	22.3	5.6	0	82	22	3.7	5.1	1
18	Marshall Johnson M. Johnson	22	22	1	1978	BAL	15	22.0	1.5	0	0	0		0.0	0
19	Larry Jones L. Jones	21	21	1	1978	SF	9	21.0	2.3	0	-9	1	-9.0	-1.0	0
20	Dwight Scales D. Scales	21	105	5	1978	LA	13	21.0	8.1	0	0	0		0.0	0
21	Roger Carr R. Carr	20.97	629	30	1978	BAL	16	21.0	39.3	6	0	0		0.0	0
22	Al Dixon A. Dixon	20.89	376	18	1978	NYG	15	20.9	25.1	3	0	0		0.0	0
23	Artie Owens A. Owens	20.89	188	9	1978	SD	13	20.9	14.5	0	0	0		0.0	0
24	Larry Mucker L. Mucker	20.85	271	13	1978	TB	16	20.8	16.9	0	35	5	7.0	2.2	0
25	Reggie Rucker R. Rucker	20.77	893	43	1978	CLE	15	20.8	59.5	8	14	2	7.0	0.9	0

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NFC East	W	L	T	PCT
Giants	3	2	1	.583
Eagles	2	4	0	.333
Cowboys	2	4	0	.333
Commanders	1	4	1	.250
NFC North	W	L	T	PCT
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