nfl kickoff return average leaders 2000's

Between the 2000 and 2009 seasons, Bernard Scott had the most yards per kick return, averaging 31.5 per return.

Interpreted as:

NFL kickoff return average with a minimum of 0.625 kickoff returns per team game leaders 2000's

	NAME	KR AVG	GP	KR	KR YDS	KR YDS/G	KR TD	PR	PR YDS	PR AVG	PR YDS/G	PR TD
1	Bernard Scott B. Scott	31.5	13	16	504	38.8	1	0	0		0.0	0
2	Sammie Stroughter S. Stroughter	29.5	13	11	324	24.9	1	12	119	9.9	9.2	0
3	Johnny Knox J. Knox	29.0	15	32	927	61.8	1	1	0	0.0	0.0	0
4	Jerome Mathis J. Mathis	28.5	17	72	2,054	120.8	3	12	68	5.7	4.0	0
5	Clifton Smith C. Smith	28.3	20	67	1,894	94.7	1	46	556	12.1	27.8	1
6	Leodis McKelvin L. McKelvin	27.9	19	57	1,589	83.6	1	2	26	13.0	1.4	0
7	Danieal Manning D. Manning	27.9	61	68	1,895	31.1	1	0	0		0.0	0
8	Percy Harvin P. Harvin	27.5	15	42	1,156	77.1	2	0	0		0.0	0
9	Ellis Hobbs E. Hobbs	27.2	71	125	3,394	47.8	3	0	0		0.0	0
10	Brad Pyatt B. Pyatt	26.7	16	29	774	48.4	0	20	157	7.9	9.8	0
11	Stefan Logan S. Logan	26.7	16	55	1,466	91.6	0	30	280	9.3	17.5	0
12	Josh Cribbs J. Cribbs	26.6	77	265	7,049	91.5	8	103	1,141	11.1	14.8	2
13	Terrence McGee T. McGee	26.3	100	207	5,450	54.5	5	0	0		0.0	0
14	Lardarius Webb L. Webb	26.2	14	35	918	65.6	1	0	-1		-0.1	0
15	Justin Miller J. Miller	26.1	44	152	3,966	90.1	5	6	9	1.5	0.2	0
16	Maurice Jones-Drew M. Jones-Drew	26.0	63	79	2,054	32.6	2	13	129	9.9	2.0	0
17	Aundrae Allison A. Allison	25.9	26	26	674	25.9	1	9	58	6.4	2.2	0
18	Laurence Maroney L. Maroney	25.9	45	41	1,062	23.6	0	0	0		0.0	0
19	Adam Jones A. Jones	25.8	39	70	1,803	46.2	0	84	807	9.6	20.7	4
20	Kevin Williams K. Williams	25.6	24	24	615	25.6	1	0	0		0.0	0
21	MarTay Jenkins M. Jenkins	25.6	37	151	3,865	104.5	2	1	1	1.0	0.0	0
22	Jerious Norwood J. Norwood	25.5	55	117	2,987	54.3	0	0	0		0.0	0
23	Leon Washington L. Washington	25.5	55	117	2,986	54.3	4	64	599	9.4	10.9	0
24	Darrick Vaughn D. Vaughn	25.4	48	103	2,620	54.6	4	0	0		0.0	0
25	Quintin Demps Q. Demps	25.3	25	58	1,469	58.8	1	0	0		0.0	0

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