who led the league in receptions in 1986 nfl season

Todd Christensen had the most receptions in 1986, with 95 catches.

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Data note: Receptions: player season data complete from 1932

	NAME	REC	SEASON	TM	GP	REC YDS	AVG	REC YDS/G	REC TD	RUSH YDS	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD
1	Todd Christensen T. Christensen	95	1986	RAI	16	1,153	12.1	72.1	8	0	0		0.0	0
2	Jerry Rice J. Rice	86	1986	SF	16	1,570	18.3	98.1	15	72	10	7.2	4.5	1
3	Al Toon A. Toon	85	1986	NYJ	16	1,176	13.8	73.5	8	-3	2	-1.5	-0.2	0
4	Stanley Morgan S. Morgan	84	1986	NE	16	1,491	17.8	93.2	10	0	0		0.0	0
5	Roger Craig R. Craig	81	1986	SF	16	624	7.7	39.0	0	830	204	4.1	51.9	7
6	Gary Anderson G. Anderson	80	1986	SD	16	871	10.9	54.4	8	442	127	3.5	27.6	1
7	J.T. Smith	80	1986	STL	16	1,014	12.7	63.4	6	0	0		0.0	0
8	Tony Collins T. Collins	77	1986	NE	16	684	8.9	42.8	5	412	156	2.6	25.8	3
9	Herschel Walker H. Walker	76	1986	DAL	16	837	11.0	52.3	2	737	151	4.9	46.1	12
10	Gary Clark G. Clark	74	1986	WAS	15	1,265	17.1	84.3	7	0	0		0.0	0
11	Art Monk A. Monk	73	1986	WAS	16	1,068	14.6	66.8	4	27	4	6.8	1.7	0
12	Matt Bouza M. Bouza	71	1986	IND	16	830	11.7	51.9	5	12	1	12.0	0.8	0
13	Steve Largent S. Largent	70	1986	SEA	16	1,070	15.3	66.9	9	0	0		0.0	0
14	Mickey Shuler M. Shuler	69	1986	NYJ	16	675	9.8	42.2	4	0	0		0.0	0
15	Mark Duper M. Duper	67	1986	MIA	16	1,313	19.6	82.1	11	-10	1	-10.0	-0.6	0
16	Mark Bavaro M. Bavaro	66	1986	NYG	16	1,001	15.2	62.6	4	0	0		0.0	0
17	Bill Brooks B. Brooks	65	1986	IND	16	1,131	17.4	70.7	8	5	4	1.3	0.3	0
18	Drew Hill D. Hill	65	1986	HOU	16	1,112	17.1	69.5	5	0	0		0.0	0
19	James Lofton J. Lofton	64	1986	GB	15	840	13.1	56.0	4	0	0		0.0	0
20	Gerald Willhite G. Willhite	64	1986	DEN	16	529	8.3	33.1	3	365	85	4.3	22.8	5
21	Kellen Winslow K. Winslow	64	1986	SD	16	728	11.4	45.5	5	0	0		0.0	0
22	Charlie Brown C. Brown	63	1986	ATL	16	918	14.6	57.4	4	0	0		0.0	0
23	Cris Collinsworth C. Collinsworth	62	1986	CIN	16	1,024	16.5	64.0	10	-16	2	-8.0	-1.0	0
24	Dwight Clark D. Clark	61	1986	SF	16	794	13.0	49.6	2	0	0		0.0	0
25	Ernest Givins E. Givins	61	1986	HOU	15	1,062	17.4	70.8	3	148	9	16.4	9.9	1

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