who has the longest reception return in nfl history

Brian Mitchell and Devin Hester caught 255 passes in their careers.

	NAME	REC	RET	GP	TRG	REC YDS	AVG	REC YDS/G	REC TD	RUSH YDS	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD
1	Brian Mitchell B. Mitchell	255	1,090	223	74	2,336	9.2	10.5	4	1,967	388	5.1	8.8	12
2	Allen Rossum A. Rossum	1	833	157	1	4	4.0	0.0	0	17	3	5.7	0.1	1
3	Glyn Milburn G. Milburn	170	721	138	37	1,322	7.8	9.6	6	817	183	4.5	5.9	2
4	Mel Gray M. Gray	13	684	169		164	12.6	1.0	0	99	19	5.2	0.6	1
5	Josh Cribbs J. Cribbs	110	662	136	186	1,175	10.7	8.6	7	808	141	5.7	5.9	2
6	Darren Sproles D. Sproles	553	652	183	748	4,840	8.8	26.4	32	3,552	732	4.9	19.4	23
7	Dante Hall D. Hall	162	647	112	254	1,747	10.8	15.6	9	242	54	4.5	2.2	0
8	Eric Metcalf E. Metcalf	541	642	179	27	5,572	10.3	31.1	31	2,392	630	3.8	13.4	12
9	Devin Hester D. Hester	255	629	156	450	3,311	13.0	21.2	16	116	36	3.2	0.7	1
10	Dave Meggett D. Meggett	336	623	146		3,038	9.0	20.8	11	1,684	398	4.2	11.5	8
11	Desmond Howard D. Howard	123	607	156	18	1,597	13.0	10.2	7	68	12	5.7	0.4	0
12	Rod Woodson R. Woodson	0	583	238	0	0		0.0	0	0	1	0.0	0.0	0
13	Ted Ginn T. Ginn	412	582	193	759	5,742	13.9	29.8	33	486	68	7.1	2.5	2
14	Kevin Williams K. Williams	178	564	121	51	2,314	13.0	19.1	7	167	34	4.9	1.4	2
15	Ron Smith R. Smith	11	547	139		227	20.6	1.6	0	42	8	5.3	0.3	0
16	Vai Sikahema V. Sikahema	53	532	118		537	10.1	4.6	1	217	59	3.7	1.8	0
17	Jermaine Lewis J. Lewis	143	516	111	111	2,129	14.9	19.2	17	148	30	4.9	1.3	0
18	Andre Roberts A. Roberts	262	488	182	492	3,079	11.8	16.9	15	120	16	7.5	0.7	0
19	Leon Washington L. Washington	168	484	126	236	1,286	7.7	10.2	4	2,271	487	4.7	18.0	16
20	Jacoby Jones J. Jones	203	468	128	352	2,733	13.5	21.4	14	62	19	3.3	0.5	0
21	Wes Welker W. Welker	903	462	175	1,276	9,924	11.0	56.7	50	151	19	7.9	0.9	0
22	Brandon Tate B. Tate	71	458	127	129	1,099	15.5	8.7	7	142	13	10.9	1.1	0
23	Tyrone Hughes T. Hughes	8	454	81		68	8.5	0.8	0	9	3	3.0	0.1	0
24	Alvin Haymond A. Haymond	0	446	104		0		0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
25	Michael L. Lewis M. L. Lewis	28	440	76	56	553	19.8	7.3	1	17	2	8.5	0.2	0

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