nfl players with most return yardage in 2016

Alex Erickson had the most return yards in his rookie season in 2016, with 1,005 yards.

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	NAME	RET YDS	SEASON	TM	GP	KR	KR YDS	KR AVG	KR YDS/G	KR TD	PR	PR YDS	PR AVG	PR YDS/G	PR TD
1	Alex Erickson A. Erickson	1,005	2016	CIN	16	29	810	27.9	50.6	0	28	195	7.0	12.2	0
2	Andre Roberts A. Roberts	993	2016	DET	16	33	747	22.6	46.7	0	20	246	12.3	15.4	2
3	Tyreek Hill T. Hill	976	2016	KC	16	14	384	27.4	24.0	1	39	592	15.2	37.0	2
4	Brandon Tate B. Tate	963	2016	BUF	15	29	662	22.8	44.1	0	26	301	11.6	20.1	0
5	Tyler Lockett T. Lockett	849	2016	SEA	15	23	606	26.3	40.4	0	29	243	8.4	16.2	0
6	Deonte Thompson D. Thompson	804	2016	CHI	16	35	804	23.0	50.3	0	0	0		0.0	0
7	Cordarrelle Patterson C. Patterson	801	2016	MIN	16	25	792	31.7	49.5	1	1	9	9.0	0.6	0
8	Marc Mariani M. Mariani	795	2016	TEN	16	26	560	21.5	35.0	0	29	235	8.1	14.7	0
9	Jalen Richard J. Richard	708	2016	OAK	16	17	402	23.6	25.1	0	34	306	9.0	19.1	0
10	Dwayne Harris D. Harris	703	2016	NYG	16	22	533	24.2	33.3	0	29	170	5.9	10.6	0
11	Eric Weems E. Weems	664	2016	ATL	16	17	391	23.0	24.4	0	24	273	11.4	17.1	0
12	Devin Hester D. Hester	646	2016	BAL	12	19	466	24.5	38.8	0	25	180	7.2	15.0	0
13	Jakeem Grant J. Grant	604	2016	MIA	16	19	439	23.1	27.4	0	20	165	8.3	10.3	1
14	Benny Cunningham B. Cunningham	599	2016	LA	11	22	599	27.2	54.5	0	0	0		0.0	0
15	Ted Ginn T. Ginn	593	2016	CAR	16	18	391	21.7	24.4	0	29	202	7.0	12.6	0
16	Lucky Whitehead L. Whitehead	589	2016	DAL	15	17	394	23.2	26.3	0	25	195	7.8	13.0	0
17	Marqise Lee M. Lee	548	2016	JAX	16	18	545	30.3	34.1	1	2	3	1.5	0.2	0
18	Tyler Ervin T. Ervin	524	2016	HOU	12	14	263	18.8	21.9	0	27	261	9.7	21.8	0
19	Jordan Todman J. Todman	478	2016	IND	16	16	478	29.9	29.9	1	0	0		0.0	0
20	JaCorey Shepherd J. Shepherd	456	2016	SF	11	21	456	21.7	41.5	0	0	0		0.0	0
21	Jalin Marshall J. Marshall	424	2016	NYJ	10	13	324	24.9	32.4	0	18	100	5.6	10.0	0
22	Kenyan Drake K. Drake	397	2016	MIA	16	13	397	30.5	24.8	1	0	0		0.0	0
23	Tavon Austin T. Austin	369	2016	LA	15	1	5	5.0	0.3	0	44	364	8.3	24.3	0
24	Ty Montgomery T. Montgomery	366	2016	GB	15	18	366	20.3	24.4	0	0	0		0.0	0
25	Chris Thompson C. Thompson	360	2016	WAS	16	17	360	21.2	22.5	0	0	0		0.0	0

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