what detroit lions tight end has the most receptions in franchise history

Charlie Sanders has the most career receptions for the Lions by a tight end, with 336 catches.

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Data note: Receptions: player season data complete from 1932

	NAME	REC	GP	TRG	REC YDS	AVG	REC YDS/G	REC TD	RUSH YDS	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD
1	Charlie Sanders C. Sanders	336	128		4,817	14.3	37.6	31	-6	4	-1.5	0.0	0
2	Brandon Pettigrew B. Pettigrew	301	93	486	2,965	9.9	31.9	17	0	0		0.0	0
3	David Hill D. Hill	245	100		3,054	12.5	30.5	23	37	8	4.6	0.4	0
4	Sam LaPorta S. LaPorta	217	49	296	2,471	11.4	50.4	23	6	2	3.0	0.1	0
5	T.J. Hockenson	186	47	287	2,068	11.1	44.0	15	0	1	0.0	0.0	0
6	Eric Ebron E. Ebron	186	56	288	2,070	11.1	37.0	11	1	1	1.0	0.0	1
7	David Sloan D. Sloan	180	90	205	2,024	11.2	22.5	15	0	0		0.0	0
8	Jim Gibbons J. Gibbons	180	104		2,159	12.0	20.8	15	0	0		0.0	0
9	Tony Scheffler T. Scheffler	120	50	212	1,311	10.9	26.2	8	5	1	5.0	0.1	0
10	Casey Fitzsimmons C. Fitzsimmons	88	99	146	677	7.7	6.8	5	0	0		0.0	0
11	Brock Wright B. Wright	75	76	99	663	8.8	8.7	11	0	0		0.0	0
12	Mikhael Ricks M. Ricks	64	30	129	773	12.1	25.8	5	0	0		0.0	0
13	Ron Kramer R. Kramer	59	39		678	11.5	17.4	1	0	0		0.0	0
14	Marcus Pollard M. Pollard	58	31	95	616	10.6	19.9	3	0	0		0.0	0
15	Will Heller W. Heller	56	64	91	525	9.4	8.2	5	0	0		0.0	0
16	David Lewis D. Lewis	54	42		678	12.6	16.1	7	0	0		0.0	0
17	Rodney Holman R. Holman	47	47		442	9.4	9.4	2	0	0		0.0	0
18	Rob Rubick R. Rubick	44	88		511	11.6	5.8	3	1	1	1.0	0.0	1
19	Stephen Alexander S. Alexander	41	16	76	377	9.2	23.6	1	0	0		0.0	0
20	Ulysses Norris U. Norris	41	68		510	12.4	7.5	8	0	0		0.0	0
21	Pete Metzelaars P. Metzelaars	34	31		290	8.5	9.4	0	0	0		0.0	0
22	Jesse James J. James	30	32	49	271	9.0	8.5	2	0	0		0.0	0
23	Walter Rasby W. Rasby	28	48	20	216	7.7	4.5	3	0	0		0.0	0
24	Jimmie Giles J. Giles	25	13		260	10.4	20.0	3	0	0		0.0	0
25	Joseph Fauria J. Fauria	24	23	42	281	11.7	12.2	8	0	0		0.0	0

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