Michael Thomas had the most yards on receptions by a rookie in 2016, with 1,137 yards.

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	NAME	REC YDS	SEASON	TM	GP	REC	TRG	AVG	REC YDS/G	REC TD	RUSH YDS	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD
1	Michael Thomas M. Thomas	1,137	2016	NO	15	92	121	12.4	75.8	9	0	0		0.0	0
2	Sterling Shepard S. Shepard	683	2016	NYG	16	65	105	10.5	42.7	8	31	3	10.3	1.9	0
3	Will Fuller W. Fuller	635	2016	HOU	14	47	92	13.5	45.4	2	-3	1	-3.0	-0.2	0
4	Tyler Boyd T. Boyd	603	2016	CIN	16	54	81	11.2	37.7	1	58	4	14.5	3.6	0
5	Eli Rogers E. Rogers	594	2016	PIT	13	48	66	12.4	45.7	3	6	1	6.0	0.5	0
6	Tyreek Hill T. Hill	593	2016	KC	16	61	83	9.7	37.1	6	267	24	11.1	16.7	3
7	Robbie Chosen R. Chosen	587	2016	NYJ	16	42	78	14.0	36.7	2	42	3	14.0	2.6	0
8	Tajae Sharpe T. Sharpe	522	2016	TEN	16	41	83	12.7	32.6	2	1	1	1.0	0.1	0
9	Breshad Perriman B. Perriman	499	2016	BAL	16	33	66	15.1	31.2	3	2	1	2.0	0.1	0
10	Hunter Henry H. Henry	478	2016	SD	15	36	53	13.3	31.9	8	0	0		0.0	0
11	Corey Coleman C. Coleman	413	2016	CLE	10	33	73	12.5	41.3	3	10	2	5.0	1.0	0
12	Malcolm Mitchell M. Mitchell	401	2016	NE	14	32	48	12.5	28.6	4	0	0		0.0	0
13	Ezekiel Elliott E. Elliott	363	2016	DAL	15	32	40	11.3	24.2	1	1,631	322	5.1	108.7	15
14	Jordan Howard J. Howard	298	2016	CHI	15	29	50	10.3	19.9	1	1,313	252	5.2	87.5	6
15	Chester Rogers C. Rogers	273	2016	IND	14	19	34	14.4	19.5	0	0	0		0.0	0
16	Austin Hooper A. Hooper	271	2016	ATL	14	19	27	14.3	19.4	3	0	0		0.0	0
17	Devontae Booker D. Booker	265	2016	DEN	16	31	45	8.5	16.6	1	612	174	3.5	38.3	4
18	Cobi Hamilton C. Hamilton	234	2016	PIT	11	17	28	13.8	21.3	2	0	0		0.0	0
19	Jordan Taylor J. Taylor	209	2016	DEN	16	16	25	13.1	13.1	2	0	0		0.0	0
20	C.J. Prosise	208	2016	SEA	6	17	19	12.2	34.7	0	172	30	5.7	28.7	1
21	Ricardo Louis R. Louis	205	2016	CLE	16	18	35	11.4	12.8	0	0	0		0.0	0
22	Geronimo Allison G. Allison	202	2016	GB	10	12	22	16.8	20.2	2	0	0		0.0	0
23	Cody Core C. Core	200	2016	CIN	8	17	27	11.8	25.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
24	Jalen Richard J. Richard	194	2016	OAK	16	29	39	6.7	12.1	2	491	83	5.9	30.7	1
25	Kevin White K. White	187	2016	CHI	4	19	36	9.8	46.8	0	9	1	9.0	2.3	0

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Sun 11/8	CLE	@	NO	1:00 PM
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Bears	4	2	0	.667
Lions	3	2	0	.600
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