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How many 1,000 yard receivers have Dolphins had in the 16-game era?

kyle crabbs
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The NFL’s 16-game regular season schedule appears to be history, which means that today’s NFL players will soon have the opportunity to re-write their respective team’s record books with the help of an additional game on the schedule each year. Scoring, passing, rushing and receiving records will be quick to fall — although some records will be easier to catch across the league than others.

For the Miami Dolphins, there aren’t a great deal of players who have surpassed 1,000 yards receiving in South Florida — and the team has just 21 single seasons in which a player has passed that mark through the air in team history. Those 21 seasons have been logged over the course of the 16-game era of NFL play since 1978 — and Paul Warfield’s 996 yard season back in 1971 just narrowly missed joining the club.

Here is the Dolphins’ all-time rankings for single-season 1,000 yard receivers, all of which have come during the NFL’s 16-game era.
(Each individual’s highest appearance in bold.)

  1. Mark Clayton (1984) – 1,389 yards

  2. Mark Duper (1986) – 1,313 yards

  3. Mark Duper (1984) – 1,306 yards

  4. Irving Fryar (1994), 1,270 yards

  5. Brandon Marshall (2011) – 1,214 yards

  6. DeVante Parker (2019) – 1,202 yards

  7. Jarvis Landry (2015) – 1,157 yards

  8. Mark Clayton (1986) – 1,150 yards

  9. Jarvis Landry (2016) – 1,136 yards

  10. Mark Clayton (1988) – 1,129 yards

  11. Chris Chambers (2005) – 1,118 yards

  12. Mark Duper (1991) – 1,085 yards

  13. Brian Hartline (2012) – 1,083 yards

  14. Mark Clayton (1991) – 1,053 yards

  15. O.J. McDuffie (1998) – 1,050 yards

  16. Tony Martin (1999) – 1,037 yards

  17. Brian Hartline (2013) – 1,016 yards

  18. Brandon Marshall (2010) – 1,014 yards

  19. Mark Clayton (1989) – 1,011 yards

  20. Irving Fryar (1993) – 1,010 yards

  21. Mark Duper (1983) – 1,003 yards

While the modern offensive era has not been kind to the Dolphins, the team can at least boast modern levels of production from the wide receiver position — they’ve had seven total 1,000 yard receiving performances in the last decade, highlighted by two appearances by Jarvis Landry and a 1,200 yard season from DeVante Parker in 2019.

But if any of the current or future Dolphins receivers are going to chase down Mark Clayton’s single season record from 1984, they appear to be in need of the added boost a 17th regular season contest would bring.