nfl player with most yards per reception 1982

Bill Hurley had the most receiving yards per reception in his rookie season in 1982, with 39.

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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	Bill Hurley B. Hurley	39	39	1	1982	NO	9	39.0	4.3	1	0	0		0.0	0
2	Bobby Duckworth B. Duckworth	38.5	77	2	1982	SD	5	38.5	15.4	0	0	0		0.0	0
3	Nick Giaquinto N. Giaquinto	32.5	65	2	1982	WAS	7	32.5	9.3	0	5	1	5.0	0.7	0
4	Kenneth Toler K. Toler	31.5	63	2	1982	NE	9	31.5	7.0	2	4	1	4.0	0.4	0
5	Ron Battle R. Battle	31	62	2	1982	RAM	9	31.0	6.9	1	1	1	1.0	0.1	0
6	Calvin Muhammad C. Muhammad	30.67	92	3	1982	RAI	8	30.7	11.5	1	0	0		0.0	0
7	Preston Brown P. Brown	28.5	114	4	1982	NE	9	28.5	12.7	1	0	0		0.0	0
8	Rickey Watts R. Watts	27.13	217	8	1982	CHI	9	27.1	24.1	0	-1	1	-1.0	-0.1	0
9	Jim Zorn J. Zorn	27	27	1	1982	SEA	9	27.0	3.0	0	113	15	7.5	12.6	1
10	Virgil Seay V. Seay	25.67	154	6	1982	WAS	8	25.7	19.3	0	0	0		0.0	0
11	Garry Cobb G. Cobb	25	25	1	1982	DET	6	25.0	4.2	0	0	0		0.0	0
12	David Verser D. Verser	24.5	98	4	1982	CIN	9	24.5	10.9	1	1	1	1.0	0.1	0
13	Lawrence Sampleton L. Sampleton	24	24	1	1982	PHI	9	24.0	2.7	0	0	0		0.0	0
14	Mike Holston M. Holston	23.2	116	5	1982	HOU	9	23.2	12.9	1	0	0		0.0	0
15	Willie Miller W. Miller	23.07	346	15	1982	RAM	9	23.1	38.4	1	5	1	5.0	0.6	0
16	Jim Smith J. Smith	22.76	387	17	1982	PIT	8	22.8	48.4	4	0	0		0.0	0
17	Phil Epps P. Epps	22.6	226	10	1982	GB	9	22.6	25.1	2	0	0		0.0	0
18	Butch Johnson B. Johnson	22.42	269	12	1982	DAL	9	22.4	29.9	3	9	1	9.0	1.0	0
19	James Scott J. Scott	22	44	2	1982	CHI	5	22.0	8.8	0	0	0		0.0	0
20	Charlie Brown C. Brown	21.56	690	32	1982	WAS	9	21.6	76.7	8	0	0		0.0	0
21	Wes Chandler W. Chandler	21.06	1,032	49	1982	SD	8	21.1	129.0	9	32	5	6.4	4.0	0
22	Danny Pittman D. Pittman	21	21	1	1982	NYG	8	21.0	2.6	0	0	0		0.0	0
23	Jimmy Cefalo J. Cefalo	20.94	356	17	1982	MIA	9	20.9	39.6	1	0	0		0.0	0
24	Stanley Morgan S. Morgan	20.86	584	28	1982	NE	9	20.9	64.9	3	3	2	1.5	0.3	0
25	George Farmer G. Farmer	20.24	344	17	1982	RAM	8	20.2	43.0	2	0	0		0.0	0

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