which we had the most career receiving yards for the cowboys

Jason Witten has the most career yards on receptions for the Cowboys, with 12,977 yards.

Regular season

	NAME	REC YDS	GP	REC	TRG	AVG	REC YDS/G	REC TD	RUSH YDS	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD
1	Jason Witten J. Witten	12,977	255	1,215	1,706	10.7	50.9	72	0	0		0.0	0
2	Michael Irvin M. Irvin	11,904	159	750	19	15.9	74.9	65	6	6	1.0	0.0	0
3	Tony Hill T. Hill	7,988	141	479		16.7	56.7	51	84	14	6.0	0.6	0
4	Drew Pearson D. Pearson	7,822	156	489		16.0	50.1	48	189	21	9.0	1.2	0
5	CeeDee Lamb C. Lamb	7,460	96	576	845	13.0	77.7	42	390	59	6.6	4.1	3
6	Dez Bryant D. Bryant	7,459	113	531	911	14.0	66.0	73	-3	6	-0.5	0.0	0
7	Bob Hayes B. Hayes	7,295	128	365		20.0	57.0	71	70	22	3.2	0.5	2
8	Frank Clarke F. Clarke	5,214	104	281		18.6	50.1	50	231	32	7.2	2.2	1
9	Miles Austin M. Austin	4,481	106	301	517	14.9	42.3	34	94	11	8.5	0.9	1
10	Amari Cooper A. Cooper	3,893	56	292	429	13.3	69.5	27	31	8	3.9	0.6	0
11	Michael Gallup M. Gallup	3,744	86	266	479	14.1	43.5	21	0	0		0.0	0
12	Doug Cosbie D. Cosbie	3,728	144	300		12.4	25.9	30	35	7	5.0	0.2	0
13	Terrell Owens T. Owens	3,587	47	235	433	15.3	76.3	38	38	8	4.8	0.8	0
14	Jay Novacek J. Novacek	3,576	95	339		10.5	37.6	22	2	1	2.0	0.0	1
15	Billy Joe DuPree B. Joe DuPree	3,565	159	267		13.4	22.4	41	178	26	6.8	1.1	1
16	Lance Rentzel L. Rentzel	3,521	53	183		19.2	66.4	31	22	3	7.3	0.4	0
17	Tony Dorsett T. Dorsett	3,432	157	382		9.0	21.9	13	12,036	2,755	4.4	76.7	72
18	Terrance Williams T. Williams	3,377	83	232	374	14.6	40.7	20	19	5	3.8	0.2	0
19	Terry Glenn T. Glenn	3,337	54	208	363	16.0	61.8	20	59	9	6.6	1.1	1
20	Cole Beasley C. Beasley	3,271	103	319	450	10.3	31.8	23	7	1	7.0	0.1	0
21	Kelvin Martin K. Martin	3,083	98	237		13.0	31.5	9	7	10	0.7	0.1	0
22	Emmitt Smith E. Smith	3,012	201	486	91	6.2	15.0	11	17,162	4,052	4.2	85.4	153
23	Patrick Crayton P. Crayton	2,888	82	196	316	14.7	35.2	23	39	6	6.5	0.5	0
24	Herschel Walker H. Walker	2,556	81	232		11.0	31.6	8	3,491	818	4.3	43.1	27
25	Mike Renfro M. Renfro	2,525	58	163		15.5	43.5	17	0	0		0.0	0

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Buccaneers	0	1	0	.000
Saints	0	1	0	.000
Panthers	0	1	0	.000
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