nfl rookie receiving yards per game leaders 2016

Michael Thomas had the most receiving yards per game by a rookie in 2016, with 75.8 per game.

	NAME	REC YDS/G	SEASON	TM	GP	REC	TRG	REC YDS	AVG	REC TD	RUSH YDS	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD
1	Michael Thomas M. Thomas	75.8	2016	NO	15	92	121	1,137	12.4	9	0	0		0.0	0
2	Kevin White K. White	46.8	2016	CHI	4	19	36	187	9.8	0	9	1	9.0	2.3	0
3	Eli Rogers E. Rogers	45.7	2016	PIT	13	48	66	594	12.4	3	6	1	6.0	0.5	0
4	Will Fuller W. Fuller	45.4	2016	HOU	14	47	92	635	13.5	2	-3	1	-3.0	-0.2	0
5	Sterling Shepard S. Shepard	42.7	2016	NYG	16	65	105	683	10.5	8	31	3	10.3	1.9	0
6	Corey Coleman C. Coleman	41.3	2016	CLE	10	33	73	413	12.5	3	10	2	5.0	1.0	0
7	Tyler Boyd T. Boyd	37.7	2016	CIN	16	54	81	603	11.2	1	58	4	14.5	3.6	0
8	Tyreek Hill T. Hill	37.1	2016	KC	16	61	83	593	9.7	6	267	24	11.1	16.7	3
9	Robbie Chosen R. Chosen	36.7	2016	NYJ	16	42	78	587	14.0	2	42	3	14.0	2.6	0
10	C.J. Prosise	34.7	2016	SEA	6	17	19	208	12.2	0	172	30	5.7	28.7	1
11	Josh Doctson J. Doctson	33.0	2016	WAS	2	2	6	66	33.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
12	Tajae Sharpe T. Sharpe	32.6	2016	TEN	16	41	83	522	12.7	2	1	1	1.0	0.1	0
13	Hunter Henry H. Henry	31.9	2016	SD	15	36	53	478	13.3	8	0	0		0.0	0
14	Paul Turner P. Turner	31.5	2016	PHI	4	9	14	126	14.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
15	Breshad Perriman B. Perriman	31.2	2016	BAL	16	33	66	499	15.1	3	2	1	2.0	0.1	0
16	Malcolm Mitchell M. Mitchell	28.6	2016	NE	14	32	48	401	12.5	4	0	0		0.0	0
17	Demarcus Ayers D. Ayers	26.5	2016	PIT	2	6	13	53	8.8	1	-12	2	-6.0	-6.0	0
18	Wendall Williams W. Williams	25.0	2016	HOU	3	4	7	75	18.8	0	0	0		0.0	0
19	Cody Core C. Core	25.0	2016	CIN	8	17	27	200	11.8	0	0	0		0.0	0
20	Ezekiel Elliott E. Elliott	24.2	2016	DAL	15	32	40	363	11.3	1	1,631	322	5.1	108.7	15
21	Cobi Hamilton C. Hamilton	21.3	2016	PIT	11	17	28	234	13.8	2	0	0		0.0	0
22	Geronimo Allison G. Allison	20.2	2016	GB	10	12	22	202	16.8	2	0	0		0.0	0
23	Jordan Howard J. Howard	19.9	2016	CHI	15	29	50	298	10.3	1	1,313	252	5.2	87.5	6
24	Chester Rogers C. Rogers	19.5	2016	IND	14	19	34	273	14.4	0	0	0		0.0	0
25	Austin Hooper A. Hooper	19.4	2016	ATL	14	19	27	271	14.3	3	0	0		0.0	0

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