League Leaders Who Led?

1961 NFL Passing Yards Leaders

Yards gained passing

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Sonny Jurgensen led the whole NFL in passing yards in 1961 with 3,723, 733 ahead of Johnny Unitas (2,990). It was one of 5 times Sonny Jurgensen led in passing yards.

YDSTDRTGY/ACMP%Y/GCMPATT1DTD%INTINT%SK
# Player Team G CMP ATT CMP% YDS Y/A TD INT SK RTG
1 Sonny Jurgensen Sonny Jurgensen PHI 14 235 416 56.5% 3,723 8.95 32 24 — 88.1
2 Johnny Unitas Johnny Unitas BAC 14 229 420 54.5% 2,990 7.12 16 24 — 66.1
3 John Brodie John Brodie SF 14 155 283 54.8% 2,588 9.15 14 12 — 84.7
4 Bart Starr Bart Starr GB 14 172 295 58.3% 2,418 8.20 16 16 — 80.3
5 Milt Plum CLE 14 177 302 58.6% 2,416 8.00 18 10 — 90.3
6 Norm Snead Norm Snead WAS 14 172 375 45.9% 2,337 6.23 11 22 — 51.6
7 Y.A. Tittle Y.A. Tittle NYG 13 163 285 57.2% 2,272 7.97 17 12 — 85.3
8 Billy Wade CHI 13 139 250 55.6% 2,258 9.03 22 13 — 93.7
9 Fran Tarkenton Fran Tarkenton MIN 14 157 280 56.1% 1,997 7.13 18 17 — 74.7
10 Jim Ninowski Jim Ninowski DET 13 117 247 47.4% 1,921 7.78 7 18 — 53.0
11 Eddie LeBaron Eddie LeBaron DAL 14 120 236 50.9% 1,741 7.38 14 16 — 66.7
12 Zeke Bratkowski Zeke Bratkowski LAN 13 124 230 53.9% 1,547 6.73 8 13 — 63.1
13 Sam Etcheverry Sam Etcheverry SLC 14 96 196 49.0% 1,275 6.51 14 11 — 70.4
14 Rudy Bukich PIT 11 89 156 57.1% 1,253 8.03 11 16 — 67.0
15 Bobby Layne Bobby Layne PIT 8 75 149 50.3% 1,205 8.09 11 16 — 62.8
16 Don Meredith Don Meredith DAL 8 94 182 51.7% 1,161 6.38 9 11 — 63.0
17 Frank Ryan Frank Ryan LAN 14 72 142 50.7% 1,115 7.85 5 7 — 68.3
18 Ralph Guglielmi Ralph Guglielmi SLC 9 56 116 48.3% 927 7.99 5 8 — 61.2
19 Earl Morrall Earl Morrall DET 13 69 150 46.0% 909 6.06 7 9 — 56.2
20 Ed Brown Ed Brown CHI 14 46 98 46.9% 742 7.57 4 11 — 46.8
21 Charlie Conerly Charlie Conerly NYG 13 44 106 41.5% 634 5.98 7 8 — 52.2
22 George Shaw George Shaw MIN 8 46 91 50.6% 530 5.82 4 4 — 64.8
23 Billy Kilmer Billy Kilmer SF 11 19 34 55.9% 286 8.41 0 4 — 44.1
24 George Izo WAS 5 16 40 40.0% 214 5.35 1 6 — 26.5
25 Bob Waters SF 8 13 28 46.4% 183 6.54 1 2 — 50.2
26 King Hill PHI 14 6 12 50.0% 101 8.42 2 2 — 78.8
27 Prentice Gautt SLC 14 6 11 54.6% 100 9.09 1 1 — 77.8
28 Lee Grosscup Lee Grosscup NYG 4 5 22 22.7% 87 3.96 1 3 — 19.1
29 Len Dawson Len Dawson CLE 7 7 15 46.7% 85 5.67 1 3 — 47.2
30 Terry Nofsinger Terry Nofsinger PIT 5 7 11 63.6% 78 7.09 0 0 — 84.7
31 John Crow SLC 8 4 14 28.6% 76 5.43 1 1 — 43.8
32 Tom Tracy Tom Tracy PIT 14 4 12 33.3% 73 6.08 0 0 — 55.2
33 Charley Johnson SLC 4 5 13 38.5% 51 3.92 0 2 — 10.9
34 Jon Arnett Jon Arnett LAN 14 3 13 23.1% 47 3.62 0 1 — 10.1
35 Bob Gaiters NYG 14 3 3 100.0% 42 14.00 2 0 — 158.3
36 Tom Moore GB 13 2 2 100.0% 42 21.00 1 0 — 158.3
37 Paul Hornung Paul Hornung GB 12 3 5 60.0% 42 8.40 1 0 — 126.7
38 Jim Brown Jim Brown CLE 14 1 3 33.3% 37 12.33 1 0 — 120.8
39 Lamar McHan Lamar McHan BAC 7 3 15 20.0% 28 1.87 1 4 — 22.2
40 Buddy Humphrey Buddy Humphrey DAL 2 1 2 50.0% 16 8.00 0 0 — 77.1
41 Dick James Dick James WAS 14 1 4 25.0% 15 3.75 0 0 — 42.7
42 Dick Hoak PIT 14 1 3 33.3% 13 4.33 1 1 — 47.9
43 John Adams CHI 13 1 1 100.0% 11 11.00 0 0 — 112.5
44 Bobby Conrad SLC 14 1 1 100.0% 5 5.00 0 0 — 87.5
45 Herb Adderley GB 14 0 0 — 0 — 0 0 — —
46 Grady Alderman MIN 14 0 0 — 0 — 0 0 — —
47 Glen Amerson PHI 14 0 0 — 0 — 0 0 — —
48 Art Anderson Art Anderson CHI 14 0 0 — 0 — 0 0 — —
49 Taz Anderson SLC 14 0 0 — 0 — 0 0 — —
50 Bill Anderson Bill Anderson WAS 14 0 0 — 0 — 0 0 — —
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