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This list shows the top 50
''Through week 16 Sunday games of season.''
Note: Y. A. Tittle 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 (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.
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 yard
The yard (symbol: yd) is an English unit of length in both the British imperial and US customary systems of measurement equalling 3 feet or 36 inches. Since 1959 it has been by international agreement standardized as exactly ...
s, the top 25 NFL playoff passing yards leaders, and the historical progression of regular season record holders.
Tom Brady
Thomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr. (born August 3, 1977) is an American football quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL). He spent his first 20 seasons with the New England Patriots organization, with which ...
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 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 (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
''Through 2021–22 NFL playoffs.'' 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 wasFran Tarkenton
Francis Asbury Tarkenton (born February 3, 1940) is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for 18 seasons, primarily with the Minnesota Vikings. He played college football at ...
, who held the record for nineteen years.
Notes
See also
*List of gridiron football quarterbacks passing statistics
This is a list of gridiron football quarterbacks passing statistics for quarterbacks that have played outdoor professional football in North America. Below is a listing of the combined professional football league leaders for passing yards, passi ...
* List of National Football League annual passing yards leaders
* 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
* List of National Football League career quarterback wins leaders
* List of National Football League records (individual)
Here is a list of the records in the National Football League set by individual players.
Service
* Most seasons: 26, George Blanda, 1949–1958, 1960–1975
* Most seasons, one team: 21, Jason Hanson (Detroit Lions), 1992–2012
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References
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