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This list shows the top 50
''Through week 16 Sunday games of season.''
Note:
National Football League
The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the ...
quarterbacks with the highest career regular season passing yards, the top 25 NFL playoff passing yards leaders, and the historical progression of regular season record holders.
Tom Brady holds both the regular season record, with 88,698 passing yards, and the playoff record, with 13,049 yards, for a combined record total of 101,747 yards.
Regular season career passing yards leaders
''Through week 16 Sunday games of season.''
Note: Y. A. Tittle
Yelberton Abraham Tittle Jr. (October 24, 1926 – October 8, 2017) was a professional American football quarterback. He played in the National Football League (NFL) for the San Francisco 49ers, New York Giants, and Baltimore Colts, after spe ...
passed for 33,070 yards in his professional career, which would place him in 43rd on this list, but 4,731 of those yards came in the All-America Football Conference
The All-America Football Conference (AAFC) was a professional American football league that challenged the established National Football League (NFL) from 1946 to 1949. One of the NFL's most formidable challengers, the AAFC attracted many of the ...
(AAFC), which the NFL does not recognise statistics and records from to date. Thus, Tittle's career passing yards total in the NFL stands at 28,339.
Playoff leaders
''Through2021–22 NFL playoffs
The National Football League playoffs for the 2021 season. This was the first time that the league featured a 17-game regular season schedule, and consequently the start of the playoffs was pushed a week later to January 15, 2022. The postseason ...
.'' Here is a list of the top 25 NFL players with the most postseason passing yards.
Historical passing yards leaders
Eleven players are recognised as having held the record as the NFL's career passing yardage leader. The longest record holder was Fran Tarkenton, who held the record for nineteen years.Notes
See also
* List of gridiron football quarterbacks passing statistics *List of National Football League annual passing yards leaders
This is a list of National Football League quarterbacks who have led the regular season in passing yards each year. The record for passing yards in a season is held by Peyton Manning of the Denver Broncos who threw for 5,477 in 2013. Drew Brees ha ...
* List of National Football League career passing completions leaders
This is a list of the top 50 National Football League quarterbacks career regular season passing completions and attempts, of quarterback playoff completions and attempts by players with over 250 playoff completions, and combined career totals.
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* List of National Football League career passing touchdowns leaders
This is a list of the top 50 National Football League (NFL) players by total career regular season passing touchdowns.
Tom Brady holds the record for most passing touchdowns with 645 and most playoff touchdown passes with 86.
Regular season ...
* List of National Football League career quarterback wins leaders
The following is a list of the top National Football League (NFL) quarterbacks in regular season wins. In the NFL, the starting quarterback is the only position that is credited with records of wins and losses.
Tom Brady holds the record for the ...
* List of National Football League records (individual)
References
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