nfl tight end receiving touchdown leaders before 2001

Before 2001, Jerry Smith scored the most receiving touchdowns by a tight end, with 54 touchdowns.

	NAME	REC TD	GP	REC	TRG	REC YDS	AVG	REC YDS/G	RUSH YDS	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD
1	Jerry Smith J. Smith	54	155	376		4,870	13.0	31.4	56	8	7.0	0.4	0
2	Dave Casper D. Casper	52	147	378		5,216	13.8	35.5	27	6	4.5	0.2	0
3	Ben Coates B. Coates	50	158	499	81	5,555	11.1	35.2	-4	3	-1.3	0.0	0
4	Keith Jackson K. Jackson	49	129	441		5,283	12.0	41.0	0	0		0.0	0
5	Shannon Sharpe S. Sharpe	48	144	612	142	7,694	12.6	53.4	9	3	3.0	0.1	0
6	Raymond Chester R. Chester	48	172	364		5,013	13.8	29.1	9	5	1.8	0.1	0
7	Ozzie Newsome O. Newsome	47	198	662		7,980	12.1	40.3	135	18	7.5	0.7	2
8	Kellen Winslow K. Winslow	45	109	541		6,741	12.5	61.8	0	0		0.0	0
9	Wesley Walls W. Walls	44	153	368	157	4,376	11.9	28.6	0	0		0.0	0
10	Mike Ditka M. Ditka	43	158	427		5,812	13.6	36.8	2	2	1.0	0.0	0
11	Paul Coffman P. Coffman	42	154	339		4,340	12.8	28.2	3	1	3.0	0.0	0
12	Todd Christensen T. Christensen	41	108	461		5,872	12.7	54.4	-6	1	-6.0	-0.1	0
13	Jimmie Giles J. Giles	41	188	350		5,084	14.5	27.0	-3	5	-0.6	0.0	0
14	Billy Joe DuPree B. Joe DuPree	41	159	267		3,565	13.4	22.4	178	26	6.8	1.1	1
15	Riley Odoms R. Odoms	41	153	396		5,755	14.5	37.6	211	25	8.4	1.4	2
16	Russ Francis R. Francis	40	167	393		5,262	13.4	31.5	12	2	6.0	0.1	0
17	Jackie Smith J. Smith	40	210	480		7,918	16.5	37.7	327	38	8.6	1.6	3
18	Mark Bavaro M. Bavaro	39	126	351		4,733	13.5	37.6	0	0		0.0	0
19	John Mackey J. Mackey	38	139	331		5,236	15.8	37.7	127	19	6.7	0.9	0
20	Mickey Shuler M. Shuler	37	180	462		5,100	11.0	28.3	0	0		0.0	0
21	Eric Green E. Green	36	120	362	10	4,390	12.1	36.6	0	0		0.0	0
22	Rodney Holman R. Holman	36	212	365		4,771	13.1	22.5	0	0		0.0	0
23	Willie Frazier W. Frazier	36	121	209		3,088	14.8	25.5	118	6	19.7	1.0	1
24	Bob Trumpy B. Trumpy	35	128	298		4,600	15.4	35.9	-1	1	-1.0	0.0	0
25	Fred Arbanas F. Arbanas	34	118	198		3,101	15.7	26.3	15	4	3.8	0.1	0

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