Comebacks & leaps
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The biggest single-season statistical rebounds in NFL history — measured as per-game improvement from a genuine down year, normalized against the player's own career baseline. Only consecutive seasons with ≥8 games qualify.
Measures consecutive-season per-game rebounds after a genuine down year. Known event-ledger seasons are attached to rows as context badges, so injury/comeback-award context stays visible instead of becoming anonymous stat movement.
1 2008 → 2009 · Rec Yds/G:14.1 → 82.0 per game · +482% from career median 41.4
2 1986 → 1987 · Rec Yds/G:6.6 → 60.0 per game · +809% from career median 28.2
3 1993 → 1994 · Rec Yds/G:22.0 → 83.9 per game · +281% from career median 41.6
4 2023 → 2024 · Rec Yds/G:22.1 → 65.0 per game · +194% from career median 26.0
5 2020 → 2021 · Rec Yds/G:16.9 → 47.2 per game · +179% from career median 21.7
6 1993 → 1994 · Rec Yds/G:15.0 → 46.6 per game · +211% from career median 20.3
7 2014 → 2015 · Rec Yds/G:19.6 → 60.4 per game · +208% from career median 30.1
8 1992 → 1993 · Rec Yds/G:11.7 → 55.3 per game · +373% from career median 26.3
9 2018 → 2019 · Rec Yds/G:18.1 → 49.0 per game · +171% from career median 21.8
10 2011 → 2012 · Rec Yds/G:3.8 → 69.9 per game · +1739% from career median 44.0
11 1994 → 1995 · Rec Yds/G:22.7 → 111.3 per game · +390% from career median 68.4
12 2006 → 2007 · Rec Yds/G:15.1 → 58.9 per game · +290% from career median 33.9
13 2016 → 2017 · Rec Yds/G:6.9 → 35.8 per game · +419% from career median 23.1
14 1998 → 1999 · Rec Yds/G:33.1 → 83.6 per game · +153% from career median 40.5
15 1972 → 1973 · Rec Yds/G:21.2 → 79.7 per game · +276% from career median 47.5
16 1999 → 2000 · Rec Yds/G:22.5 → 60.6 per game · +169% from career median 29.9
17 2014 → 2015 · Rec Yds/G:14.6 → 52.8 per game · +262% from career median 28.4
18 1961 → 1962 · Rec Yds/G:26.3 → 98.9 per game · +276% from career median 61.9
19 1996 → 1997 · Rec Yds/G:4.6 → 53.1 per game · +1054% from career median 31.2
20 1997 → 1998 · Rec Yds/G:18.4 → 85.5 per game · +365% from career median 59.1
21 1998 → 1999 · Rec Yds/G:12.2 → 50.4 per game · +313% from career median 21.3
22 1973 → 1974 · Rec Yds/G:27.7 → 77.6 per game · +180% from career median 44.6
23 1998 → 1999 · Rec Yds/G:7.8 → 66.9 per game · +758% from career median 33.2
24 1992 → 1993 · Rec Yds/G:21.0 → 58.3 per game · +178% from career median 33.7
25 1982 → 1983 · Rec Yds/G:17.3 → 88.1 per game · +409% from career median 65.8
26 1994 → 1995 · Rec Yds/G:12.1 → 38.3 per game · +217% from career median 24.5
27 1998 → 1999 · Rec Yds/G:3.4 → 38.9 per game · +1044% from career median 33.3
28 2021 → 2022 · Rec Yds/G:17.2 → 40.6 per game · +136% from career median 22.1
29 1990 → 1991 · Rec Yds/G:24.8 → 57.9 per game · +133% from career median 31.4
30 1987 → 1988 · Rec Yds/G:11.5 → 33.5 per game · +191% from career median 21.0
31 1995 → 1996 · Rec Yds/G:18.1 → 53.5 per game · +196% from career median 32.3
32 2018 → 2019 · Rec Yds/G:17.4 → 67.2 per game · +286% from career median 45.6
33 1998 → 1999 · Rec Yds/G:32.2 → 74.7 per game · +132% from career median 39.7
34 1998 → 1999 · Rec Yds/G:22.5 → 73.9 per game · +228% from career median 52.0
35 2006 → 2007 · Rec Yds/G:14.5 → 53.3 per game · +268% from career median 38.0
36 2018 → 2019 · Rec Yds/G:33.8 → 79.1 per game · +134% from career median 41.6
37 2013 → 2014 · Rec Yds/G:24.9 → 54.9 per game · +120% from career median 29.7
38 2018 → 2019 · Rec Yds/G:16.2 → 63.3 per game · +291% from career median 24.9
39 1987 → 1988 · Rec Yds/G:15.8 → 48.6 per game · +208% from career median 34.9
40 2017 → 2018 · Rec Yds/G:22.5 → 73.4 per game · +226% from career median 47.6
41 2018 → 2019 · Rec Yds/G:22.3 → 48.4 per game · +117% from career median 28.1
42 1995 → 1996 · Rec Yds/G:15.4 → 73.3 per game · +376% from career median 59.1
43 2018 → 2019 · Rec Yds/G:28.1 → 75.1 per game · +167% from career median 51.5
44 1995 → 1996 · Rec Yds/G:10.9 → 43.7 per game · +301% from career median 36.0
45 2007 → 2008 · Rec Yds/G:21.6 → 58.0 per game · +169% from career median 40.0
46 2010 → 2011 · Rec Yds/G:26.5 → 61.3 per game · +131% from career median 33.6
47 2005 → 2006 · Rec Yds/G:25.1 → 60.1 per game · +139% from career median 38.7
48 1985 → 1986 · Rec Yds/G:0.8 → 42.4 per game · +5200% from career median 46.8
49 2020 → 2021 · Rec Yds/G:4.1 → 31.7 per game · +673% from career median 27.5
50 1988 → 1989 · Rec Yds/G:27.1 → 71.8 per game · +165% from career median 47.6
50 comebacks shown · StatVault encyclopedia
Rankings as of 2026-10-15 , as declared by the corpus that produced them.