League Leaders Who Led?

1962 NFL Passing Yards Leaders

Yards gained passing

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Sonny Jurgensen led the whole NFL in passing yards in 1962 with 3,261, 37 ahead of Y.A. Tittle (3,224). 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 14 196 366 53.6% 3,261 8.91 22 26 — 74.3
2 Y.A. Tittle Y.A. Tittle NYG 14 200 375 53.3% 3,224 8.60 33 20 — 89.5
3 Billy Wade CHI 14 225 412 54.6% 3,172 7.70 18 24 — 70.0
4 Johnny Unitas Johnny Unitas BAC 14 222 389 57.1% 2,967 7.63 23 23 — 76.5
5 Norm Snead Norm Snead WAS 14 184 354 52.0% 2,926 8.27 22 22 — 74.7
6 Fran Tarkenton Fran Tarkenton MIN 14 163 329 49.5% 2,595 7.89 22 25 — 66.9
7 Charley Johnson SLC 11 150 308 48.7% 2,440 7.92 16 20 — 65.9
8 Bart Starr Bart Starr GB 14 178 285 62.5% 2,438 8.55 12 9 — 90.7
9 Milt Plum DET 14 179 325 55.1% 2,378 7.32 15 20 — 68.2
10 John Brodie John Brodie SF 14 175 304 57.6% 2,272 7.47 18 16 — 79.0
11 Bobby Layne Bobby Layne PIT 13 116 233 49.8% 1,686 7.24 9 17 — 56.2
12 Don Meredith Don Meredith DAL 13 105 212 49.5% 1,679 7.92 15 8 — 84.2
13 Zeke Bratkowski Zeke Bratkowski LAN 13 110 219 50.2% 1,541 7.04 9 16 — 56.5
14 Frank Ryan Frank Ryan CLE 11 112 194 57.7% 1,541 7.94 10 7 — 85.4
15 Eddie LeBaron Eddie LeBaron DAL 14 95 166 57.2% 1,436 8.65 16 9 — 95.4
16 Jim Ninowski Jim Ninowski CLE 7 87 173 50.3% 1,178 6.81 7 8 — 66.6
17 Ed Brown Ed Brown PIT 14 43 84 51.2% 726 8.64 5 6 — 70.8
18 Sam Etcheverry Sam Etcheverry SLC 14 58 106 54.7% 707 6.67 2 10 — 42.5
19 Roman Gabriel Roman Gabriel LAN 6 57 101 56.4% 670 6.63 3 2 — 78.4
20 Earl Morrall Earl Morrall DET 14 32 52 61.5% 449 8.64 4 4 — 82.9
21 King Hill PHI 14 31 61 50.8% 361 5.92 0 5 — 34.9
22 George Izo WAS 1 17 37 46.0% 284 7.68 3 4 — 59.8
23 Lamar McHan Lamar McHan BAC 10 10 20 50.0% 278 13.90 3 2 — 95.8
24 Galen Hall WAS 3 19 32 59.4% 274 8.56 2 1 — 95.1
25 Ron Miller LAN 6 17 43 39.5% 250 5.81 1 1 — 57.3
26 John Crow SLC 14 12 20 60.0% 241 12.05 0 0 — 102.3
27 Ralph Guglielmi Ralph Guglielmi NYG 14 14 31 45.2% 210 6.77 2 1 — 76.0
28 Billy Kilmer Billy Kilmer SF 12 8 13 61.5% 191 14.69 1 3 — 91.5
29 John McCormick MIN 13 7 18 38.9% 104 5.78 0 5 — 19.0
30 Tom Matte Tom Matte BAC 14 5 13 38.5% 85 6.54 1 0 — 87.0
31 Paul Hornung Paul Hornung GB 9 4 6 66.7% 80 13.33 0 2 — 70.1
32 Rudy Bukich CHI 5 3 13 23.1% 79 6.08 1 4 — 38.5
33 Tom Moore GB 14 2 5 40.0% 70 14.00 2 1 — 87.5
34 Billy Ray Barnes WAS 10 3 4 75.0% 48 12.00 0 0 — 114.6
35 Rick Casares CHI 13 1 2 50.0% 35 17.50 1 0 — 135.4
36 John Roach GB 8 3 12 25.0% 33 2.75 0 0 — 39.6
37 Jim Brown Jim Brown CLE 14 1 2 50.0% 28 14.00 0 0 — 95.8
38 Jon Arnett Jon Arnett LAN 10 3 5 60.0% 28 5.60 1 0 — 115.0
39 Bob Waters SF 7 2 6 33.3% 28 4.67 0 0 — 49.3
40 Dick Bass LAN 14 1 3 33.3% 22 7.33 0 0 — 60.4
41 Ollie Matson Ollie Matson LAN 13 1 1 100.0% 13 13.00 0 0 — 118.8
42 Frank Gifford Frank Gifford NYG 14 1 2 50.0% 12 6.00 0 0 — 68.8
43 Tommy McDonald PHI 14 1 1 100.0% 10 10.00 1 0 — 147.9
44 Tom Tracy Tom Tracy PIT 4 1 1 100.0% 7 7.00 0 0 — 95.8
45 John Adams CHI 14 0 0 — 0 — 0 0 — —
46 Herb Adderley GB 14 0 0 — 0 — 0 0 — —
47 Grady Alderman MIN 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 George Andrie DAL 14 0 0 — 0 — 0 0 — —
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