what tight end led the nfl in receiving yards in 1978

Henry Childs had the most yards on receptions by a tight end in 1978, with 869 yards.

	NAME	REC YDS	SEASON	TM	GP	REC	AVG	REC YDS/G	REC TD	RUSH YDS	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD
1	Henry Childs H. Childs	869	1978	NO	16	53	16.4	54.3	4	-4	2	-2.0	-0.3	0
2	Dave Casper D. Casper	852	1978	OAK	16	62	13.7	53.3	9	5	1	5.0	0.3	0
3	Riley Odoms R. Odoms	829	1978	DEN	16	54	15.4	51.8	6	5	2	2.5	0.3	0
4	David Hill D. Hill	633	1978	DET	16	53	11.9	39.6	4	12	3	4.0	0.8	0
5	Ozzie Newsome O. Newsome	589	1978	CLE	16	38	15.5	36.8	2	96	13	7.4	6.0	2
6	Russ Francis R. Francis	543	1978	NE	15	39	13.9	36.2	4	0	0		0.0	0
7	Bob Tucker B. Tucker	540	1978	MIN	16	47	11.5	33.8	0	0	0		0.0	0
8	Mike Barber M. Barber	513	1978	HOU	16	32	16.0	32.1	3	14	2	7.0	0.9	0
9	Billy Joe DuPree B. Joe DuPree	509	1978	DAL	16	34	15.0	31.8	9	15	1	15.0	0.9	0
10	Randy Grossman R. Grossman	448	1978	PIT	16	37	12.1	28.0	1	0	0		0.0	0
11	Don Bass D. Bass	447	1978	CIN	16	27	16.6	27.9	4	-4	1	-4.0	-0.3	0
12	Bob Klein B. Klein	413	1978	SD	16	34	12.1	25.8	2	0	0		0.0	0
13	Reuben Gant R. Gant	408	1978	BUF	16	34	12.0	25.5	5	14	1	14.0	0.9	0
14	Andre Tillman A. Tillman	398	1978	MIA	16	31	12.8	24.9	3	0	0		0.0	0
15	Jerome Barkum J. Barkum	391	1978	NYJ	16	28	14.0	24.4	3	0	0		0.0	0
16	Al Dixon A. Dixon	376	1978	NYG	15	18	20.9	25.1	3	0	0		0.0	0
17	Keith Krepfle K. Krepfle	374	1978	PHI	10	26	14.4	37.4	3	0	0		0.0	0
18	Paul Seal P. Seal	370	1978	SF	14	21	17.6	26.4	2	0	0		0.0	0
19	Jean Fugett J. Fugett	367	1978	WAS	14	25	14.7	26.2	7	0	0		0.0	0
20	Jim Mitchell J. Mitchell	366	1978	ATL	16	32	11.4	22.9	2	0	0		0.0	0
21	Terry Nelson T. Nelson	344	1978	LA	13	23	15.0	26.5	0	67	6	11.2	5.2	1
22	Walter White W. White	340	1978	KC	16	42	8.1	21.3	1	0	0		0.0	0
23	Jimmie Giles J. Giles	324	1978	TB	16	23	14.1	20.3	2	-1	1	-1.0	-0.1	0
24	Bennie Cunningham B. Cunningham	321	1978	PIT	6	16	20.1	53.5	2	0	0		0.0	0
25	Ron Howard R. Howard	251	1978	SEA	16	18	13.9	15.7	1	0	0		0.0	0

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