which cornerback has given up the most amount of receiving yards in a season

Roy Green has the most yards on receptions by a defensive back in a season, with 708 yards in 1981.

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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	Roy Green R. Green	708	1981	STL	16	33		21.5	44.3	4	60	3	20.0	3.8	1
2	Deion Sanders D. Sanders	475	1996	DAL	16	36		13.2	29.7	1	2	3	0.7	0.1	0
3	Clendon Thomas C. Thomas	431	1965	PIT	14	25		17.2	30.8	1	0	0		0.0	0
4	Don Paul D. Paul	398	1951	CHC	12	23		17.3	33.2	3	247	37	6.7	20.6	3
5	Dick James D. James	373	1962	WAS	14	19		19.6	26.6	5	13	9	1.4	0.9	0
6	Clendon Thomas C. Thomas	334	1964	PIT	14	17		19.6	23.9	1	7	2	3.5	0.5	0
7	Billy Stone B. Stone	324	1950	BAL	8	12		27.0	40.5	4	113	14	8.1	14.1	1
8	Devin Hester D. Hester	299	2007	CHI	16	20	39	15.0	18.7	2	-10	7	-1.4	-0.6	0
9	Dan Sandifer D. Sandifer	293	1949	WAS	12	19		15.4	24.4	3	64	20	3.2	5.3	0
10	Frank Gifford F. Gifford	292	1953	NYG	12	18		16.2	24.3	4	157	50	3.1	13.1	2
11	George Taliaferro G. Taliaferro	230	1951	NYY	12	16		14.4	19.2	2	330	62	5.3	27.5	3
12	Jug Girard J. Girard	220	1951	GB	12	10		22.0	18.3	2	20	4	5.0	1.7	0
13	Mark Bailey M. Bailey	206	1977	KC	14	17		12.1	14.7	1	266	66	4.0	19.0	2
14	Dan Sandifer D. Sandifer	181	1948	WAS	12	9		20.1	15.1	1	67	18	3.7	5.6	0
15	Terry Barr T. Barr	180	1959	DET	11	10		18.0	16.4	0	57	5	11.4	5.2	1
16	Don Paul D. Paul	167	1953	CHC	12	16		10.4	13.9	2	114	16	7.1	9.5	0
17	Eddie Saenz E. Saenz	165	1950	WAS	10	10		16.5	16.5	1	64	20	3.2	6.4	1
18	Carl Taseff C. Taseff	159	1954	BAL	12	16		9.9	13.3	1	228	41	5.6	19.0	0
19	Howie Livingston H. Livingston	156	1950	TOT	11	5		31.2	14.2	2	0	1	0.0	0.0	0
20	Ted Cook T. Cook	156	1948	GB	12	13		12.0	13.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
21	Bert Rechichar B. Rechichar	151	1953	BAL	11	3		50.3	13.7	2	0	0		0.0	0
22	Tom Farmer T. Farmer	137	1947	WAS	10	8		17.1	13.7	0	29	15	1.9	2.9	1
23	Ray Ramsey R. Ramsey	135	1951	CHC	10	8		16.9	13.5	0	0	0		0.0	0
24	Bobby Gage B. Gage	127	1950	PIT	10	6		21.2	12.7	2	106	39	2.7	10.6	3
25	Ray Ramsey R. Ramsey	118	1953	CHC	12	12		9.8	9.8	0	0	0		0.0	0

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