who had the most receiving yards in history in 1989

Jerry Rice had the most receiving yards in 1989, with 1,483 yards.

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	NAME	REC YDS	SEASON	TM	GP	REC	AVG	REC YDS/G	REC TD	RUSH YDS	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD
1	Jerry Rice J. Rice	1,483	1989	SF	16	82	18.1	92.7	17	33	5	6.6	2.1	0
2	Sterling Sharpe S. Sharpe	1,423	1989	GB	16	90	15.8	88.9	12	25	2	12.5	1.6	0
3	Mark Carrier M. Carrier	1,422	1989	TB	16	86	16.5	88.9	9	0	0		0.0	0
4	Henry Ellard H. Ellard	1,382	1989	RAM	14	70	19.7	98.7	8	10	2	5.0	0.7	0
5	Andre Reed A. Reed	1,312	1989	BUF	16	88	14.9	82.0	9	31	2	15.5	1.9	0
6	Anthony Miller A. Miller	1,252	1989	SD	16	75	16.7	78.3	10	21	4	5.3	1.3	0
7	Webster Slaughter W. Slaughter	1,236	1989	CLE	16	65	19.0	77.3	6	0	0		0.0	0
8	Gary Clark G. Clark	1,229	1989	WAS	15	79	15.6	81.9	9	19	2	9.5	1.3	0
9	Tim McGee T. McGee	1,211	1989	CIN	16	65	18.6	75.7	8	36	2	18.0	2.3	0
10	Art Monk A. Monk	1,186	1989	WAS	16	86	13.8	74.1	8	8	3	2.7	0.5	0
11	Flipper Anderson F. Anderson	1,146	1989	RAM	16	44	26.0	71.6	5	-1	1	-1.0	-0.1	0
12	Ricky Sanders R. Sanders	1,138	1989	WAS	16	80	14.2	71.1	4	19	4	4.8	1.2	0
13	Vance Johnson V. Johnson	1,095	1989	DEN	16	76	14.4	68.4	7	0	0		0.0	0
14	Richard Johnson R. Johnson	1,091	1989	DET	16	70	15.6	68.2	8	38	12	3.2	2.4	0
15	Eric Martin E. Martin	1,090	1989	NO	16	68	16.0	68.1	8	0	0		0.0	0
16	John Taylor J. Taylor	1,077	1989	SF	15	60	18.0	71.8	10	6	1	6.0	0.4	0
17	Mervyn Fernandez M. Fernandez	1,069	1989	RAI	16	57	18.8	66.8	9	16	2	8.0	1.0	0
18	Anthony Carter A. Carter	1,066	1989	MIN	16	65	16.4	66.6	4	18	3	6.0	1.1	0
19	Brian Blades B. Blades	1,063	1989	SEA	16	77	13.8	66.4	5	3	1	3.0	0.2	0
20	Mark Clayton M. Clayton	1,011	1989	MIA	15	64	15.8	67.4	9	9	3	3.0	0.6	0
21	Louis Lipps L. Lipps	944	1989	PIT	16	50	18.9	59.0	5	180	13	13.8	11.3	1
22	Drew Hill D. Hill	938	1989	HOU	14	66	14.2	67.0	8	0	0		0.0	0
23	Bill Brooks B. Brooks	919	1989	IND	16	63	14.6	57.4	4	-3	2	-1.5	-0.2	0
24	Shawn Collins S. Collins	862	1989	ATL	16	58	14.9	53.9	3	0	0		0.0	0
25	Ernie Jones E. Jones	838	1989	PHX	15	45	18.6	55.9	3	18	1	18.0	1.2	0

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