most career return touchdowns in the 1980's

From 1980 through 1989, LeRoy Irvin scored the most touchdown returns, with 11 touchdown returns.

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	NAME	RET TD	GP	KR	KR YDS	KR AVG	KR YDS/G	KR TD	PR	PR YDS	PR AVG	PR YDS/G	PR TD
1	LeRoy Irvin L. Irvin	11	143	4	60	15.0	0.4	0	147	1,457	9.9	10.2	4
2	Rod Martin R. Martin	6	133	1	0	0.0	0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
3	Erik McMillan E. McMillan	5	29	0	0		0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
4	Dana McLemore D. McLemore	5	72	56	1,147	20.5	15.9	0	152	1,598	10.5	22.2	4
5	Lloyd Burruss L. Burruss	5	113	5	91	18.2	0.8	0	0	0		0.0	0
6	Ronnie Lott R. Lott	5	118	8	113	14.1	1.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
7	Mike Harden M. Harden	5	143	26	414	15.9	2.9	0	8	113	14.1	0.8	1
8	Johnnie Johnson J. Johnson	5	124	0	0		0.0	0	20	163	8.2	1.3	0
9	Dennis Thurman D. Thurman	5	105	1	17	17.0	0.2	0	0	0		0.0	0
10	Dwayne Woodruff D. Woodruff	5	126	0	0		0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
11	Ron Brown R. Brown	4	78	157	3,662	23.3	46.9	4	0	0		0.0	0
12	Henry Ellard H. Ellard	4	95	19	364	19.2	3.8	0	131	1,494	11.4	15.7	4
13	Jim Jeffcoat J. Jeffcoat	4	108	0	0		0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
14	Vernon Dean V. Dean	4	101	0	0		0.0	0	1	0	0.0	0.0	0
15	Dennis Gentry D. Gentry	4	115	145	3,408	23.5	29.6	3	17	136	8.0	1.2	0
16	Dave Brown D. Brown	4	143	0	0		0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
17	Nolan Cromwell N. Cromwell	4	115	1	3	3.0	0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
18	Jacob Green J. Green	4	146	0	0		0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
19	Dwight Hicks D. Hicks	4	97	1	22	22.0	0.2	0	41	283	6.9	2.9	0
20	Kenny Johnson K. Johnson	4	127	60	1,156	19.3	9.1	0	110	854	7.8	6.7	0
21	David Logan D. Logan	4	107	0	0		0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
22	George Martin G. Martin	4	131	0	0		0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
23	Darrol Ray D. Ray	4	72	0	0		0.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
24	David Grayson D. Grayson	3	37	1	6	6.0	0.2	0	0	0		0.0	0
25	John Taylor J. Taylor	3	39	14	276	19.7	7.1	0	81	982	12.1	25.2	2

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Lions	3	2	0	.600
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