which cb has the most receiving yards all-time

Deion Sanders has the most career yards on receptions by a defensive back, with 784 yards.

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	NAME	REC YDS	GP	REC	TRG	AVG	REC YDS/G	REC TD	RUSH YDS	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD
1	Deion Sanders D. Sanders	784	188	60	13	13.1	4.2	3	-14	9	-1.6	-0.1	0
2	Clendon Thomas C. Thomas	771	125	43		17.9	6.2	2	7	2	3.5	0.1	0
3	Roy Green R. Green	723	47	34		21.3	15.4	4	60	3	20.0	1.3	1
4	Don Paul D. Paul	690	100	48		14.4	6.9	7	469	73	6.4	4.7	3
5	Dan Sandifer D. Sandifer	510	64	30		17.0	8.0	5	247	74	3.3	3.9	1
6	Dick James D. James	406	37	21		19.3	11.0	5	120	40	3.0	3.2	1
7	Billy Stone B. Stone	324	8	12		27.0	40.5	4	113	14	8.1	14.1	1
8	Devin Hester D. Hester	299	32	20	40	15.0	9.3	2	-10	7	-1.4	-0.3	0
9	Frank Gifford F. Gifford	292	12	18		16.2	24.3	4	157	50	3.1	13.1	2
10	Ray Ramsey R. Ramsey	280	37	23		12.2	7.6	0	0	0		0.0	0
11	Night Train Lane N. Train Lane	253	157	8		31.6	1.6	1	0	0		0.0	0
12	George Taliaferro G. Taliaferro	230	12	16		14.4	19.2	2	330	62	5.3	27.5	3
13	Jug Girard J. Girard	220	12	10		22.0	18.3	2	20	4	5.0	1.7	0
14	Mark Bailey M. Bailey	206	14	17		12.1	14.7	1	266	66	4.0	19.0	2
15	Howie Livingston H. Livingston	192	30	7		27.4	6.4	3	38	11	3.5	1.3	0
16	Bert Rechichar B. Rechichar	185	89	7		26.4	2.1	3	-1	1	-1.0	0.0	0
17	Terry Barr T. Barr	180	35	10		18.0	5.1	0	57	5	11.4	1.6	1
18	Carl Taseff C. Taseff	175	107	18		9.7	1.6	1	234	47	5.0	2.2	1
19	Dicky Moegle D. Moegle	173	65	7		24.7	2.7	0	301	57	5.3	4.6	6
20	Pete Schabarum P. Schabarum	166	22	14		11.9	7.5	0	183	39	4.7	8.3	1
21	Eddie Saenz E. Saenz	165	10	10		16.5	16.5	1	64	20	3.2	6.4	1
22	Ted Cook T. Cook	156	12	13		12.0	13.0	0	0	0		0.0	0
23	Tom Keane T. Keane	153	56	7		21.9	2.7	0	0	0		0.0	0
24	Bob Forte B. Forte	152	36	15		10.1	4.2	3	123	50	2.5	3.4	0
25	Tom Farmer T. Farmer	137	10	8		17.1	13.7	0	29	15	1.9	2.9	1

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Saints	1	1	.500
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Sun 10/11	BAL	@	ATL	8:20 PM
Sun 10/18	CHI	@	ATL	1:00 PM
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186.0

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Pass Yards Rankings

331.0

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Commanders	0	2	0	.000
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Lions	1	1	0	.500
Bears	1	1	0	.500
Packers	1	2	0	.333
NFC South	W	L	T	PCT
Panthers	1	1	0	.500
Saints	1	1	0	.500
Falcons	1	2	0	.333
Buccaneers	0	2	0	.000
NFC West	W	L	T	PCT
Seahawks	2	0	0	1.000
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Patriots	1	1	0	.500
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Steelers	1	1	0	.500
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AFC South	W	L	T	PCT
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Titans	0	2	0	.000
Texans	0	2	0	.000
Colts	0	2	0	.000
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Raiders	2	0	0	1.000
Broncos	1	1	0	.500
Chargers	0	2	0	.000