what starting wide reciever has the most receiving yards in the playoffs ever

Jerry Rice has the most career receiving yards by a starting wide receiver in the playoffs, with 2,245 yards.

	NAME	REC YDS	GP	REC	TRG	AVG	REC YDS/G	REC TD	RUSH YDS	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD
1	Jerry Rice J. Rice	2,245	29	151	39	14.9	77.4	22	44	7	6.3	1.5	0
2	Julian Edelman J. Edelman	1,339	15	110	166	12.2	89.3	5	82	10	8.2	5.5	1
3	Michael Irvin M. Irvin	1,315	16	87		15.1	82.2	8	0	0		0.0	0
4	Cliff Branch C. Branch	1,281	18	72		17.8	71.2	5	0	0		0.0	0
5	Reggie Wayne R. Wayne	1,254	21	93	156	13.5	59.7	9	0	0		0.0	0
6	Andre Reed A. Reed	1,229	21	85	1	14.5	58.5	9	27	7	3.9	1.3	0
7	Tyreek Hill T. Hill	1,185	14	92	136	12.9	84.6	6	78	11	7.1	5.6	1
8	Hines Ward H. Ward	1,167	16	86	134	13.6	72.9	10	31	7	4.4	1.9	0
9	Fred Biletnikoff F. Biletnikoff	1,167	18	70		16.7	64.8	10	-10	1	-10.0	-0.6	0
10	Paul Warfield P. Warfield	1,121	18	58		19.3	62.3	5	31	5	6.2	1.7	0
11	Drew Pearson D. Pearson	1,084	21	65		16.7	51.6	8	16	4	4.0	0.8	0
12	Anquan Boldin A. Boldin	1,057	15	70	121	15.1	70.5	8	0	0		0.0	0
13	Art Monk A. Monk	1,022	14	68		15.0	73.0	7	17	6	2.8	1.2	0
14	Steve Smith Sr. S. Smith Sr.	1,001	11	59	86	17.0	91.0	9	45	5	9.0	4.1	1
15	Randy Moss R. Moss	977	15	54	92	18.1	65.1	10	14	1	14.0	0.9	0
16	Davante Adams D. Adams	958	12	75	116	12.8	79.8	7	0	0		0.0	0
17	John Stallworth J. Stallworth	958	12	48		20.0	79.8	11	0	0		0.0	0
18	Larry Fitzgerald L. Fitzgerald	942	9	57	85	16.5	104.7	10	0	0		0.0	0
19	Julio Jones J. Jones	918	10	70	91	13.1	91.8	6	25	3	8.3	2.5	0
20	Marvin Harrison M. Harrison	883	16	65	123	13.6	55.2	2	0	0		0.0	0
21	Deion Branch D. Branch	873	13	57	92	15.3	67.2	3	41	3	13.7	3.2	1
22	Cris Carter C. Carter	870	14	63	42	13.8	62.1	8	0	0		0.0	0
23	Stefon Diggs S. Diggs	854	16	74	121	11.5	53.4	4	21	4	5.3	1.3	0
24	Rod Smith R. Smith	845	12	48	40	17.6	70.4	6	4	3	1.3	0.3	0
25	Lynn Swann L. Swann	830	13	43		19.3	63.8	8	0	0		0.0	0

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