nfl rookie receiving yards per game leaders 2020

Justin Jefferson had the most receiving yards per game by a rookie in 2020, with 87.5 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	Justin Jefferson J. Jefferson	87.5	2020	MIN	16	88	125	1,400	15.9	7	2	1	2.0	0.1	0
2	Brandon Aiyuk B. Aiyuk	62.3	2020	SF	12	60	96	748	12.5	5	77	6	12.8	6.4	2
3	CeeDee Lamb C. Lamb	58.4	2020	DAL	16	74	111	935	12.6	5	82	10	8.2	5.1	1
4	Tee Higgins T. Higgins	56.8	2020	CIN	16	67	108	908	13.6	6	28	5	5.6	1.8	0
5	Chase Claypool C. Claypool	54.6	2020	PIT	16	62	109	873	14.1	9	16	10	1.6	1.0	2
6	Jerry Jeudy J. Jeudy	53.5	2020	DEN	16	52	113	856	16.5	3	0	0		0.0	0
7	Laviska Shenault Jr. L. Shenault Jr.	42.9	2020	JAX	14	58	79	600	10.3	5	91	18	5.1	6.5	0
8	Denzel Mims D. Mims	39.7	2020	NYJ	9	23	44	357	15.5	0	0	0		0.0	0
9	Darnell Mooney D. Mooney	39.4	2020	CHI	16	61	98	631	10.3	4	20	4	5.0	1.3	0
10	Michael Pittman Jr. M. Pittman Jr.	38.7	2020	IND	13	40	61	503	12.6	1	26	3	8.7	2.0	0
11	Gabe Davis G. Davis	37.4	2020	BUF	16	35	62	599	17.1	7	0	1	0.0	0.0	0
12	Jalen Reagor J. Reagor	36.0	2020	PHI	11	31	54	396	12.8	1	26	4	6.5	2.4	0
13	Henry Ruggs III H. Ruggs III	34.8	2020	LV	13	26	43	452	17.4	2	49	9	5.4	3.8	0
14	Tyron Billy-Johnson T. Billy-Johnson	33.2	2020	LAC	12	20	26	398	19.9	3	17	3	5.7	1.4	0
15	Albert Okwuegbunam Jr. A. Okwuegbunam Jr.	30.3	2020	DEN	4	11	15	121	11.0	1	0	0		0.0	0
16	KJ Hamler	29.3	2020	DEN	13	30	56	381	12.7	3	40	9	4.4	3.1	0
17	D'Andre Swift D. Swift	27.5	2020	DET	13	46	57	357	7.8	2	521	114	4.6	40.1	8
18	Quintez Cephus Q. Cephus	26.8	2020	DET	13	20	35	349	17.5	2	0	0		0.0	0
19	Donovan Peoples-Jones D. Peoples-Jones	25.3	2020	CLE	12	14	20	304	21.7	2	0	0		0.0	0
20	James Robinson J. Robinson	24.6	2020	JAX	14	49	60	344	7.0	3	1,070	240	4.5	76.4	7
21	Clyde Edwards-Helaire C. Edwards-Helaire	22.8	2020	KC	13	36	54	297	8.3	1	803	181	4.4	61.8	4
22	Lynn Bowden L. Bowden	21.1	2020	MIA	10	28	37	211	7.5	0	32	9	3.6	3.2	0
23	Ja'Marcus Bradley J. Bradley	20.0	2020	CLE	3	5	11	60	12.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
24	Antonio Williams A. Williams	20.0	2020	BUF	1	1	1	20	20.0	0	63	12	5.3	63.0	2
25	Jonathan Taylor J. Taylor	19.9	2020	IND	15	36	39	299	8.3	1	1,169	232	5.0	77.9	11

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