| 1952 Punt Returns - Thru Week 12 | |||||||
| Punt Returns | No | Yds | Avg | FC | TD | Long | |
| Ray Mathews | PIT | 26 | 471 | 18.1 | 7 | 2 | 93 |
| Woodley Lewis | LAM | 21 | 375 | 17.9 | 6 | 2 | 72 |
| Hugh McElhenny | SFO | 28 | 479 | 17.1 | 9 | 3 | 85 |
| Don Stevens | PHI | 23 | 307 | 13.3 | 6 | 2 | 87 |
| Ken Carpenter | CLE | 12 | 160 | 13.3 | 2 | 0 | 45 |
| Bibbles Bawel | PHI | 26 | 344 | 13.2 | 9 | 1 | 71 |
| Skeets Quinlan | LAM | 13 | 161 | 12.4 | 7 | 0 | 38 |
| Dom Moselle | GNB | 13 | 158 | 12.2 | 3 | 0 | 27 |
| Billy Joe Grimes | GNB | 21 | 237 | 11.3 | 6 | 0 | 48 |
| Johnny Williams | WAS | 17 | 179 | 10.5 | 7 | 0 | 38 |
| Ray Renfro | CLE | 20 | 190 | 9.5 | 7 | 0 | 38 |
| Billy Cross | CHC | 16 | 143 | 8.9 | 7 | 0 | 31 |
| J.R. Boone | SFO | 13 | 104 | 8.0 | 2 | 0 | 16 |
| Billy Baggett | DAL | 25 | 196 | 7.8 | 9 | 0 | 19 |
| Yale Lary | DET | 20 | 151 | 7.6 | 4 | 0 | 19 |
| Emlen Tunnell | NYG | 29 | 193 | 6.7 | 14 | 0 | 28 |
| Whizzer White | CHI | 21 | 114 | 5.4 | 4 | 0 | 18 |
| Lynn Chandnois | PIT | 19 | 98 | 5.2 | 4 | 0 | 19 |
| Joe Arenas | SFO | 12 | 52 | 4.3 | 3 | 0 | 18 |
| Jack Christiansen | DET | 10 | 236 | 23.6 | 6 | 2 | 75 |
| Tom Landry | NYG | 11 | 163 | 14.8 | 5 | 0 | 46 |
| Don R. Paul | CHC | 7 | 65 | 9.3 | 1 | 0 | 13 |
| Ace Loomis | GNB | 11 | 99 | 9.0 | 2 | 0 | 29 |
| Ollie Matson | CHC | 10 | 83 | 8.3 | 1 | 0 | 24 |
| Harry Gilmer | WAS | 4 | 30 | 7.5 | 1 | 0 | 12 |
| Buddy Young | DAL | 4 | 24 | 6.0 | 5 | 0 | 10 |
| Jimmy Lesane | CHI | 11 | 65 | 5.9 | 5 | 0 | 15 |
| Eddie Macon | CHI | 5 | 25 | 5.0 | 1 | 0 | 10 |
| Clyde Scott | PHI\DET | 2 | 9 | 4.5 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| Charlie Justice | WAS | 9 | 26 | 2.9 | 4 | 0 | 17 |
| Bert Rechichar | CLE | 10 | 20 | 2.0 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
| Tom Calvin | PIT | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Bobby Walston | PHI | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 469 | 4,957 | 10.6 | 158 | 12 | 93 | |