WNBA Single-Season Defensive Rebounds Record Progression

Year	Player	DREB	Stood for
2024	A'ja Wilson	372	still standing
2023	Alyssa Thomas	314	1 year
2018	Sylvia Fowles	282	5 years
2017	Jonquel Jones	280	1 year
2016	Breanna Stewart	277	1 year
2004	Lisa Leslie	276	12 years
2002	Lisa Leslie	244	2 years
1998	CB Cindy Brown	231	4 years
1997	Lisa Leslie	203	1 year

The earliest marks here are records only in the sense that nobody had done better yet. Season length, schedule and the rules themselves have all changed, so a figure from the 1870s is not comparable with a modern one and is not offered as though it were.