what is the longest punt return in panthers history

Steve Smith Sr. has the most career punt returns for the Panthers, with 178 returns.

Interpreted as:

What is the longest punt return by a player in panthers history?

	NAME	PR	GP	KR	KR YDS	KR AVG	KR YDS/G	KR TD	PR YDS	PR AVG	PR YDS/G	PR TD
1	Steve Smith Sr. S. Smith Sr.	178	182	98	2,371	24.2	13.0	2	1,652	9.3	9.1	4
2	Winslow Oliver W. Oliver	110	38	9	203	22.6	5.3	0	1,173	10.7	30.9	1
3	Ted Ginn T. Ginn	82	47	44	994	22.6	21.1	0	795	9.7	16.9	0
4	Captain Munnerlyn C. Munnerlyn	75	107	4	119	29.8	1.1	0	677	9.0	6.3	0
5	Chris Gamble C. Gamble	60	123	0	0		0.0	0	412	6.9	3.3	0
6	Eric Guliford E. Guliford	43	14	0	0		0.0	0	475	11.0	33.9	1
7	Mark Jones M. Jones	39	16	40	958	24.0	59.9	0	443	11.4	27.7	0
8	Ihmir Smith-Marsette I. Smith-Marsette	37	17	0	0		0.0	0	322	8.7	18.9	1
9	Armanti Edwards A. Edwards	36	39	15	295	19.7	7.6	0	253	7.0	6.5	0
10	Eric Metcalf E. Metcalf	34	16	4	56	14.0	3.5	0	238	7.0	14.9	0
11	Ryne Robinson R. Robinson	30	16	26	598	23.0	37.4	0	262	8.7	16.4	0
12	Tyrone Poole T. Poole	29	47	1	5	5.0	0.1	0	217	7.5	4.6	0
13	Raheem Blackshear R. Blackshear	23	41	66	1,734	26.3	42.3	0	200	8.7	4.9	0
14	Alex Erickson A. Erickson	23	17	2	57	28.5	3.4	0	204	8.9	12.0	0
15	Shi Smith S. Smith	23	23	1	24	24.0	1.0	0	143	6.2	6.2	0
16	Christian McCaffrey C. McCaffrey	22	64	3	58	19.3	0.9	0	162	7.4	2.5	0
17	Trevor Etienne T. Etienne	20	17	31	733	23.6	43.1	0	163	8.2	9.6	0
18	Pharoh Cooper P. Cooper	20	16	18	430	23.9	26.9	0	117	5.9	7.3	0
19	Kaelin Clay K. Clay	17	9	3	52	17.3	5.8	0	147	8.6	16.3	1
20	Corey Brown C. Brown	16	43	12	273	22.8	6.3	0	153	9.6	3.6	1
21	Brenton Bersin B. Bersin	14	42	7	167	23.9	4.0	0	86	6.1	2.0	0
22	DJ Moore	12	80	6	132	22.0	1.7	0	82	6.8	1.0	0
23	Damiere Byrd D. Byrd	12	17	10	294	29.4	17.3	1	113	9.4	6.6	0
24	Joe Adams J. Adams	11	9	9	208	23.1	23.1	0	127	11.5	14.1	0
25	Ray-Ray McCloud R. McCloud	10	6	8	174	21.8	29.0	0	82	8.2	13.7	0

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