who led the league in receiving touchdowns between 1956 to 1967

From 1956 through 1967, Tommy McDonald had the most receiving touchdowns, with 83 touchdowns.

Regular season

	NAME	REC TD	GP	REC	REC YDS	AVG	REC YDS/G	RUSH YDS	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD
1	Tommy McDonald T. McDonald	83	143	488	8,297	17.0	58.0	22	17	1.3	0.2	0
2	Art Powell A. Powell	81	116	478	8,015	16.8	69.1	0	0		0.0	0
3	Don Maynard D. Maynard	68	122	447	8,138	18.2	66.7	74	22	3.4	0.6	0
4	Raymond Berry R. Berry	68	142	618	9,070	14.7	63.9	0	0		0.0	0
5	Bobby Mitchell B. Mitchell	65	134	507	7,824	15.4	58.4	2,689	503	5.3	20.1	18
6	Sonny Randle S. Randle	64	111	361	5,940	16.5	53.5	0	0		0.0	0
7	Lance Alworth L. Alworth	63	68	326	6,661	20.4	98.0	94	13	7.2	1.4	2
8	Jimmy Orr J. Orr	56	121	336	6,498	19.3	53.7	122	15	8.1	1.0	0
9	Chris Burford C. Burford	55	103	391	5,505	14.1	53.4	10	3	3.3	0.1	0
10	Gary Collins G. Collins	52	83	227	3,701	16.3	44.6	60	4	15.0	0.7	0
11	Charley Hennigan C. Hennigan	51	95	410	6,823	16.6	71.8	0	0		0.0	0
12	Del Shofner D. Shofner	51	125	349	6,470	18.5	51.8	1	4	0.3	0.0	0
13	Frank Clarke F. Clarke	50	140	291	5,426	18.6	38.8	231	32	7.2	1.7	1
14	Lenny Moore L. Moore	48	143	363	6,039	16.6	42.2	5,174	1,069	4.8	36.2	63
15	Pete Retzlaff P. Retzlaff	47	132	452	7,412	16.4	56.2	-4	6	-0.7	0.0	0
16	Lionel Taylor L. Taylor	45	112	561	7,105	12.7	63.4	20	4	5.0	0.2	0
17	Buddy Dial B. Dial	44	98	261	5,436	20.8	55.5	14	4	3.5	0.1	0
18	Max McGee M. McGee	41	136	309	5,732	18.6	42.1	112	11	10.2	0.8	0
19	Gino Cappelletti G. Cappelletti	40	112	278	4,386	15.8	39.2	4	3	1.3	0.0	0
20	Jim Colclough J. Colclough	39	112	275	4,865	17.7	43.4	51	4	12.8	0.5	0
21	Billy Cannon B. Cannon	37	100	185	2,909	15.7	29.1	2,449	601	4.1	24.5	17
22	Billy Howton B. Howton	37	98	329	5,300	16.1	54.1	29	5	5.8	0.3	0
23	Ray Renfro R. Renfro	37	100	199	3,947	19.8	39.5	63	9	7.0	0.6	0
24	Mike Ditka M. Ditka	36	93	342	4,777	14.0	51.4	0	0		0.0	0
25	Bill Groman B. Groman	36	66	174	3,481	20.0	52.7	2	1	2.0	0.0	1

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Saints	0	1	0	.000
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