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This is a list of National Football League punt returners who have led the regular season in punt return yards each year. The record for punt return yards in a season is currently held by Desmond Howard of the Green Bay Packers who had 875 yards in 1996.
In the movie Forrest Gump, Forrest was an All-American kick returner for the Alabama Crimson Tide under Bear Bryant in the mid 1960s. Brian Mitchell, who played running back in the NFL for 14 seasons, is the league's career leader in kickoff return yards (14,014) and punt return yards (4,999) by a very wide margin.
Matthew Slater for the New England Patriots has been named to ten Pro Bowl teams, primarily for his role as a gunner. In American football, a gunner, also known as a shooter, flyer, headhunter, or kamikaze, is a player on kickoffs and punts who specializes in running down the sideline very quickly in an attempt to tackle the kick or punt returner.
He was primarily a punt returner with the Giants. ... Toub, set to begin his 11th season in Kansas City, the Chiefs’ special teams have often ranked among the NFL’s best. That wasn’t the ...
The return extended BYU’s lead to 31-6 in the 38-9 rout. Kansas State turned the ball over three times across the second and third quarters, and BYU turned all three of those mistakes into points.
Highest average, yards per punt return, season [min. 15 returns]: 17.1 (2010) Hester returned 33 punts for 564 yards. Highest average, yards per punt return, game [min. 3 returns]: 40.7, vs. Detroit Lions, November 13, 2011 Hester returned 3 punts for 122 yards. Most punt return touchdowns, lifetime: 13; Most punt return touchdowns, season: 4
How Chiefs’ 4th-string punt returner saved game vs. Bengals: ‘A full-circle moment’ ... Moore’s 29-yard scamper on a punt return right was a season best ... and the type of play foretold ...
Season Player Kickoff return yards Team Ref. 1960: Leon Burton: 862* New York Titans [3]1961: Frank Jackson: 645 Dallas Texans [4]1962: Dick Christy: 824 New York Titans