Return threat · 2024-2025 · FBS

78 return threats across 2024-2025

Enough return volume (12+ kick returns or 15+ punt returns) plus an elite return average for the cohort, or a house-call return touchdown — 84 player-seasons cleared that bar across 2024-2025, the only two seasons this style-modifier lane covers.

This is not an all-time list — the underlying data only goes back to 2024-2025.

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2025 — 41 players

# player confidence ▲
1 Emmanuel Henderson Jr. WR · Kansas
100
1 kick-return TD
2 Jaden Barnes WR · App State
100
1 punt-return TD
3 Solomon Beebe RB · UAB
100
1 kick-return TD
4 Jaylen Jenkins RB · Texas State
100
1 kick-return TD
5 Barion Brown WR · LSU
100
1 kick-return TD
6 Gabriel Benyard WR · Kennesaw State
100
1 punt-return TD
7 Dalen Cobb WR · Georgia Southern
100
1 kick-return TD
8 Damon Bankston RB · New Mexico
100
2 kick-return TD
9 Keith Reynolds WR · Miami (OH)
100
1 kick-return TD
10 Jordan Napier WR · San Diego State
100
1 punt-return TD
11 Sahmir Hagans WR · Duke
100
1 kick-return TD
12 Jadarian Price RB · Notre Dame
100
2 kick-return TD
13 Kaden Wetjen WR · Iowa
100
1 kick-return TD
14 Victor Snow WR · Buffalo
100
1 punt-return TD
15 Parker Kingston WR · BYU
100
1 punt-return TD
16 Kevin Concepcion WR · Texas A&M
100
2 punt-return TD
17 Trayvon Rudolph WR · Toledo
100
1 kick-return TD
18 Jonathan Brady WR · Indiana
100
1 punt-return TD
19 Ryan Niblett DB · Texas
100
2 punt-return TD
20 Jaden Nixon RB · UCF
100
1 kick-return TD
21 Kenneth Williams RB · Nebraska
100
1 kick-return TD
22 Kevin Coleman Jr. WR · Missouri
100
1 punt-return TD
23 Malcolm Gillie WR · Coastal Carolina
100
1 kick-return TD
24 Vicari Swain DB · South Carolina
100
3 punt-return TD
25 Vinny Anthony WR · Wisconsin
100
1 kick-return TD
26 Ky Woods RB · Nevada
100
1 kick-return TD
27 Caullin Lacy WR · Louisville
100
2 punt-return TD
28 Derrick Eley WR · Charlotte
100
1 kick-return TD
29 Chauncy Cobb WR · Arkansas State
100
2 kick-return TD
30 Wayne Harris WR · Kent State
100
1 punt-return TD
31 Carlos Hernandez WR · Wake Forest
100
1 punt-return TD
32 Cameron Pettaway RB · Bowling Green
100
1 kick-return TD
33 Dev'ion Reynolds CB · Northern Illinois
100
1 kick-return TD
34 Bryce Noernberg WR · Kansas State
100
1 kick-return TD
35 Devin Gandy WR · Louisiana Tech
100
2 kick-return TD
36 Da'Realyst Clark WR · Kent State
100
2 kick-return TD
37 Tim Burns Jr. WR · Sam Houston
100
1 kick-return TD
38 Mana Carvalho WR · Utah
100
1 punt-return TD
39 Tony Freeman WR · Washington State
92
17.3 yards per punt return
40 Tre Richardson WR · Vanderbilt
89
29.2 yards per kick return
41 Simeon Evans WR · North Texas
84
28.1 yards per kick return

2024 — 43 players

# player confidence ▲
1 Robert Williams WR · Louisiana
100
1 kick-return TD
2 Jayden Harrison WR · Notre Dame
100
1 kick-return TD
3 Jacquez Stuart RB · Toledo
100
1 kick-return TD
4 Cam Ross WR · James Madison
100
1 kick-return TD
5 Kameran Shanks WR · UAB
100
2 punt-return TD
6 Kamdyn Benjamin WR · Tulsa
100
1 punt-return TD
7 Lloyd Avant RB · Tulsa
100
1 kick-return TD
8 Tyler King WR · Wyoming
100
1 kick-return TD
9 Jalen Moss WR · Fresno State
100
1 punt-return TD
10 John Paul Richardson WR · TCU
100
1 punt-return TD
11 Courtney Jackson WR · Arkansas State
100
2 punt-return TD
12 Barion Brown WR · Kentucky
100
1 kick-return TD
13 Quinton Jackson RB · Rice
100
1 kick-return TD
14 Qua Ashley RB · Kennesaw State
100
2 kick-return TD
15 Jamaal Bell WR · Baylor
100
1 kick-return TD
16 Tez Johnson WR · Oregon
100
1 punt-return TD
17 Kaden Wetjen WR · Iowa
100
1 kick-return TD
18 Keelan Marion WR · BYU
100
2 kick-return TD
19 Parker Kingston WR · BYU
100
2 punt-return TD
20 Roderick Daniels WR · SMU
100
1 punt-return TD
21 Donte Kent DB · Central Michigan
100
1 punt-return TD
22 Silas Bolden WR · Texas
100
1 punt-return TD
23 Jaylin Lane WR · Virginia Tech
100
1 punt-return TD
24 Junior Sherrill WR · Vanderbilt
100
1 kick-return TD
25 Martel Hight CB · Vanderbilt
100
1 punt-return TD
26 Winston Wright WR · East Carolina
100
1 kick-return TD
27 Mekhi Mews WR · Houston
100
1 punt-return TD
28 Coleman Owen WR · Ohio
100
1 punt-return TD
29 Zavion Thomas WR · LSU
100
1 kick-return TD
30 Malcolm Gillie WR · Ball State
100
1 kick-return TD
31 Jayden Brown RB · UConn
100
1 kick-return TD
32 Samuel Singleton RB · Florida State
100
1 kick-return TD
33 Ian Foster S · Marshall
99
32.4 yards per kick return
34 Hank Beatty WR · Illinois
91
14.1 yards per punt return
35 C'Quan Jnopierre WR · Florida International
91
28.3 yards per kick return
36 Victor Snow WR · Buffalo
89
13.6 yards per punt return
37 Vinny Anthony WR · Wisconsin
87
27.3 yards per kick return
38 Makai Lemon WR · USC
86
27.1 yards per kick return
39 Myles Price WR · Indiana
83
12.6 yards per punt return
40 Chimere Dike WR · Florida
83
12.5 yards per punt return
41 Nate Mccollum WR · North Carolina
81
26.4 yards per kick return
42 Zylan Perry RB · Louisiana
81
26.3 yards per kick return
43 Davon Booth RB · Mississippi State
77
25.7 yards per kick return

How to read this: each row is one player-season that fired the return-threat modifier — the bar and number are the modifier's confidence (0-100), the fine print is the real return stat behind it (yards per return within the returner cohort, or a return touchdown). A returner is defined by return volume, not roster position. This is a 2024-2025 board, not an all-time list.