who has the single season receiving yards record for the lions

Calvin Johnson has the most receiving yards for the Lions in a season, with 1,964 yards in 2012.

	NAME	REC YDS	SEASON	TM	GP	REC	TRG	AVG	REC YDS/G	REC TD	RUSH YDS	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD
1	Calvin Johnson C. Johnson	1,964	2012	DET	16	122	204	16.1	122.8	5	0	0		0.0	0
2	Herman Moore H. Moore	1,686	1995	DET	16	123		13.7	105.4	14	0	0		0.0	0
3	Calvin Johnson C. Johnson	1,681	2011	DET	16	96	158	17.5	105.1	16	11	1	11.0	0.7	0
4	Amon-Ra St. Brown A. St. Brown	1,515	2023	DET	16	119	164	12.7	94.7	10	24	4	6.0	1.5	0
5	Calvin Johnson C. Johnson	1,492	2013	DET	14	84	157	17.8	106.6	12	0	0		0.0	0
6	Brett Perriman B. Perriman	1,488	1995	DET	16	108		13.8	93.0	9	48	5	9.6	3.0	0
7	Amon-Ra St. Brown A. St. Brown	1,401	2025	DET	17	117	172	12.0	82.4	11	9	3	3.0	0.5	0
8	Germane Crowell G. Crowell	1,338	1999	DET	16	81	147	16.5	83.6	7	38	5	7.6	2.4	0
9	Golden Tate G. Tate	1,331	2014	DET	16	99	144	13.4	83.2	4	30	5	6.0	1.9	0
10	Calvin Johnson C. Johnson	1,331	2008	DET	16	78	150	17.1	83.2	12	-1	3	-0.3	-0.1	0
11	Roy Williams R. Williams	1,310	2006	DET	16	82	151	16.0	81.9	7	2	2	1.0	0.1	0
12	Herman Moore H. Moore	1,296	1996	DET	16	106		12.2	81.0	9	0	0		0.0	0
13	Herman Moore H. Moore	1,293	1997	DET	16	104		12.4	80.8	8	0	0		0.0	0
14	Pat Studstill P. Studstill	1,266	1966	DET	14	67		18.9	90.4	5	20	2	10.0	1.4	0
15	Amon-Ra St. Brown A. St. Brown	1,263	2024	DET	17	115	141	11.0	74.3	12	6	2	3.0	0.4	0
16	Calvin Johnson C. Johnson	1,214	2015	DET	16	88	149	13.8	75.9	9	0	0		0.0	0
17	Kenny Golladay K. Golladay	1,190	2019	DET	16	65	116	18.3	74.4	11	0	0		0.0	0
18	Herman Moore H. Moore	1,173	1994	DET	16	72		16.3	73.3	11	0	0		0.0	0
19	Amon-Ra St. Brown A. St. Brown	1,161	2022	DET	16	106	146	11.0	72.6	6	95	9	10.6	5.9	0
20	Johnnie Morton J. Morton	1,154	2001	DET	16	77	144	15.0	72.1	4	6	1	6.0	0.4	0
21	Johnnie Morton J. Morton	1,129	1999	DET	16	80	133	14.1	70.6	5	0	0		0.0	0
22	Calvin Johnson C. Johnson	1,120	2010	DET	15	77	137	14.5	74.7	12	32	4	8.0	2.1	0
23	Jameson Williams J. Williams	1,117	2025	DET	17	65	102	17.2	65.7	7	12	6	2.0	0.7	0
24	Marvin Jones M. Jones	1,101	2017	DET	16	61	107	18.0	68.8	9	0	0		0.0	0
25	Richard Johnson R. Johnson	1,091	1989	DET	16	70		15.6	68.2	8	38	12	3.2	2.4	0

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