nfl player with most yards per reception 1983

Glen Young had the most receiving yards per reception in his rookie season in 1983, with 41.67.

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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	Glen Young G. Young	41.67	125	3	1983	PHI	16	41.7	7.8	1	0	0		0.0	0
2	Carl Monroe C. Monroe	30.5	61	2	1983	SF	5	30.5	12.2	0	23	10	2.3	4.6	0
3	Rocky Belk R. Belk	28.2	141	5	1983	CLE	10	28.2	14.1	2	-5	1	-5.0	-0.5	0
4	Virgil Seay V. Seay	27.5	55	2	1983	WAS	14	27.5	3.9	1	0	0		0.0	0
5	Mike Miller M. Miller	24.29	170	7	1983	NYG	13	24.3	13.1	0	2	1	2.0	0.2	0
6	Herkie Walls H. Walls	23	276	12	1983	HOU	16	23.0	17.3	1	44	5	8.8	2.8	0
7	Stephen Starring S. Starring	22.88	389	17	1983	NE	15	22.9	25.9	2	0	0		0.0	0
8	James Lofton J. Lofton	22.41	1,300	58	1983	GB	16	22.4	81.3	8	36	9	4.0	2.3	0
9	Melvin Hoover M. Hoover	22.1	221	10	1983	PHI	11	22.1	20.1	0	0	0		0.0	0
10	Freddie Solomon F. Solomon	21.35	662	31	1983	SF	13	21.4	50.9	4	3	1	3.0	0.2	0
11	Bobby Duckworth B. Duckworth	21.1	422	20	1983	SD	16	21.1	26.4	5	0	0		0.0	0
12	Willie Gault W. Gault	20.9	836	40	1983	CHI	16	20.9	52.3	8	31	4	7.8	1.9	0
13	Ray Butler R. Butler	20.7	207	10	1983	BAL	11	20.7	18.8	3	0	0		0.0	0
14	Byron Walker B. Walker	20.67	248	12	1983	SEA	16	20.7	15.5	2	0	0		0.0	0
15	Doug Donley D. Donley	20.56	370	18	1983	DAL	11	20.6	33.6	2	0	0		0.0	0
16	Mike Quick M. Quick	20.42	1,409	69	1983	PHI	16	20.4	88.1	13	0	0		0.0	0
17	Curtis Dickey C. Dickey	20.13	483	24	1983	BAL	16	20.1	30.2	3	1,122	254	4.4	70.1	4
18	Clint Sampson C. Sampson	20	200	10	1983	DEN	16	20.0	12.5	3	0	0		0.0	0
19	Clarence Weathers C. Weathers	19.95	379	19	1983	NE	16	19.9	23.7	3	28	1	28.0	1.8	0
20	Mark Duper M. Duper	19.67	1,003	51	1983	MIA	16	19.7	62.7	10	0	0		0.0	0
21	Danny Pittman D. Pittman	19.44	175	9	1983	TOT	12	19.4	14.6	1	0	0		0.0	0
22	Calvin Muhammad C. Muhammad	19.38	252	13	1983	RAI	15	19.4	16.8	2	0	0		0.0	0
23	Steve Watson S. Watson	19.2	1,133	59	1983	DEN	16	19.2	70.8	5	17	3	5.7	1.1	0
24	Mark Clayton M. Clayton	19	114	6	1983	MIA	14	19.0	8.1	1	9	2	4.5	0.6	0
25	Perry Harrington P. Harrington	19	19	1	1983	PHI	15	19.0	1.3	0	98	23	4.3	6.5	1

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