Eddie Royal had the most receiving yards by a rookie in 2008, with 980 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	Eddie Royal E. Royal	980	2008	DEN	15	91	129	10.8	65.3	5	109	11	9.9	7.3	0
2	DeSean Jackson D. Jackson	912	2008	PHI	16	62	120	14.7	57.0	2	96	17	5.6	6.0	1
3	Donnie Avery D. Avery	674	2008	STL	15	53	103	12.7	44.9	3	69	10	6.9	4.6	1
4	John Carlson J. Carlson	627	2008	SEA	16	55	80	11.4	39.2	5	0	0		0.0	0
5	Davone Bess D. Bess	554	2008	MIA	16	54	75	10.3	34.6	1	13	1	13.0	0.8	0
6	Dustin Keller D. Keller	535	2008	NYJ	16	48	78	11.1	33.4	3	0	0		0.0	0
7	Matt Forte M. Forte	477	2008	CHI	16	63	76	7.6	29.8	4	1,238	316	3.9	77.4	8
8	Steve Slaton S. Slaton	377	2008	HOU	16	50	59	7.5	23.6	1	1,282	268	4.8	80.1	9
9	Jordy Nelson J. Nelson	366	2008	GB	16	33	54	11.1	22.9	2	0	0		0.0	0
10	Chansi Stuckey C. Stuckey	359	2008	NYJ	15	32	45	11.2	23.9	3	1	1	1.0	0.1	0
11	Harry Douglas H. Douglas	320	2008	ATL	16	23	39	13.9	20.0	1	69	12	5.8	4.3	1
12	Josh Morgan J. Morgan	319	2008	SF	12	20	43	16.0	26.6	3	0	0		0.0	0
13	Robert Meachem R. Meachem	289	2008	NO	14	12	20	24.1	20.6	3	20	1	20.0	1.4	1
14	Kevin Smith K. Smith	286	2008	DET	16	39	54	7.3	17.9	0	976	238	4.1	61.0	8
15	Darren McFadden D. McFadden	285	2008	OAK	13	29	38	9.8	21.9	0	499	113	4.4	38.4	4
16	Martellus Bennett M. Bennett	283	2008	DAL	16	20	27	14.2	17.7	4	0	0		0.0	0
17	Ray Rice R. Rice	273	2008	BAL	13	33	43	8.3	21.0	0	454	107	4.2	34.9	0
18	Jamaal Charles J. Charles	272	2008	KC	16	27	40	10.1	17.0	1	357	67	5.3	22.3	0
19	Chris Johnson C. Johnson	260	2008	TEN	15	43	62	6.0	17.3	1	1,228	251	4.9	81.9	9
20	John Standeford J. Standeford	244	2008	DET	9	15	34	16.3	27.1	0	0	0		0.0	0
21	Tim Hightower T. Hightower	237	2008	ARI	16	34	50	7.0	14.8	0	399	143	2.8	24.9	10
22	Chaz Schilens C. Schilens	226	2008	OAK	16	15	32	15.1	14.1	2	-2	1	-2.0	-0.1	0
23	Mike Sims-Walker M. Sims-Walker	217	2008	JAX	9	16	30	13.6	24.1	0	0	0		0.0	0
24	Tashard Choice T. Choice	185	2008	DAL	16	21	30	8.8	11.6	0	472	92	5.1	29.5	2
25	Syndric Steptoe S. Steptoe	182	2008	CLE	16	19	41	9.6	11.4	0	0	0		0.0	0

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