League Leaders Who Led?

1963 NFL Passing Yards Leaders

Yards gained passing

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Johnny Unitas led the whole NFL in passing yards in 1963 with 3,481, 201 ahead of Charley Johnson (3,280). It was one of 4 times Johnny Unitas led in passing yards.

YDSTDRTGY/ACMP%Y/GCMPATT1DTD%INTINT%SK
# Player Team G CMP ATT CMP% YDS Y/A TD INT SK RTG
1 Johnny Unitas Johnny Unitas BAC 14 237 410 57.8% 3,481 8.49 20 12 — 89.7
2 Charley Johnson SLC 14 222 423 52.5% 3,280 7.75 28 21 — 79.5
3 Y.A. Tittle Y.A. Tittle NYG 13 221 367 60.2% 3,145 8.57 36 14 — 104.8
4 Norm Snead Norm Snead WAS 14 175 363 48.2% 3,043 8.38 13 27 — 58.1
5 Ed Brown Ed Brown PIT 14 168 362 46.4% 2,982 8.24 21 20 — 71.4
6 Earl Morrall Earl Morrall DET 14 174 328 53.1% 2,621 7.99 24 14 — 86.2
7 Don Meredith Don Meredith DAL 14 167 310 53.9% 2,381 7.68 17 18 — 73.1
8 Fran Tarkenton Fran Tarkenton MIN 14 170 297 57.2% 2,311 7.78 15 15 — 78.0
9 Billy Wade CHI 14 192 356 53.9% 2,301 6.46 15 12 — 74.0
10 Frank Ryan Frank Ryan CLE 13 135 256 52.7% 2,026 7.91 25 13 — 90.4
11 Roman Gabriel Roman Gabriel LAN 12 130 281 46.3% 1,947 6.93 8 11 — 62.7
12 Bart Starr Bart Starr GB 13 132 244 54.1% 1,855 7.60 15 10 — 82.3
13 Sonny Jurgensen Sonny Jurgensen PHI 9 99 184 53.8% 1,413 7.68 11 13 — 69.4
14 Lamar McHan Lamar McHan SF 12 83 196 42.4% 1,243 6.34 8 11 — 54.0
15 King Hill PHI 14 91 186 48.9% 1,213 6.52 10 17 — 49.9
16 John Roach GB 8 38 84 45.2% 620 7.38 4 8 — 46.8
17 Zeke Bratkowski Zeke Bratkowski LAN 6 49 93 52.7% 567 6.10 4 9 — 46.2
18 Bob Waters SF 7 42 88 47.7% 435 4.94 1 6 — 37.8
19 Jim Ninowski Jim Ninowski CLE 4 29 61 47.5% 423 6.93 2 6 — 41.9
20 Eddie LeBaron Eddie LeBaron DAL 13 33 65 50.8% 418 6.43 3 3 — 67.3
21 George Izo WAS 5 25 58 43.1% 378 6.52 3 6 — 42.8
22 Ron Kelen MIN 6 27 58 46.6% 376 6.48 1 2 — 59.3
23 Rudy Bukich CHI 6 29 43 67.4% 369 8.58 3 2 — 97.9
24 John Brodie John Brodie SF 3 30 61 49.2% 367 6.02 3 4 — 57.2
25 Milt Plum DET 10 27 77 35.1% 339 4.40 2 12 — 18.7
26 Glynn Griffing NYG 13 16 40 40.0% 306 7.65 3 4 — 52.7
27 Terry Baker Terry Baker LAN 4 11 19 57.9% 140 7.37 0 4 — 41.5
28 Ralph Guglielmi Ralph Guglielmi PHI 6 7 24 29.2% 118 4.92 0 3 — 8.0
29 Gary Cuozzo BAC 5 10 17 58.8% 104 6.12 0 0 — 76.6
30 Tom Moore GB 12 3 4 75.0% 99 24.75 1 0 — 156.3
31 Buddy Humphrey Buddy Humphrey SLC 4 4 11 36.4% 96 8.73 1 0 — 99.1
32 Billy Ray Barnes WAS 12 3 4 75.0% 81 20.25 1 0 — 156.3
33 Terry Nofsinger Terry Nofsinger PIT 2 2 3 66.7% 46 15.33 0 0 — 109.7
34 Don Lisbon SF 14 1 2 50.0% 45 22.50 1 0 — 135.4
35 Elijah Pitts GB 14 2 2 100.0% 41 20.50 1 0 — 158.3
36 Nick Pietrosante Nick Pietrosante DET 12 1 1 100.0% 37 37.00 0 0 — 118.8
37 John Crow SLC 3 2 3 66.7% 27 9.00 1 0 — 134.7
38 Tom Tracy Tom Tracy PIT 8 1 4 25.0% 23 5.75 0 0 — 51.0
39 Tom Matte Tom Matte BAC 14 1 5 20.0% 20 4.00 0 0 — 43.8
40 Joe Morrison Joe Morrison NYG 14 1 2 50.0% 18 9.00 0 0 — 81.3
41 Timmy Brown PHI 14 1 3 33.3% 11 3.67 1 1 — 45.1
42 Herb Adderley GB 14 0 0 — 0 — 0 0 — —
43 Grady Alderman MIN 14 0 0 — 0 — 0 0 — —
44 Lionel Aldridge Lionel Aldridge GB 14 0 0 — 0 — 0 0 — —
45 Kermit Alexander Kermit Alexander SF 14 0 0 — 0 — 0 0 — —
46 Doug Atkins Doug Atkins CHI 14 0 0 — 0 — 0 0 — —
47 Pervis Atkins LAN 14 0 0 — 0 — 0 0 — —
48 Frank Atkinson PIT 14 0 0 — 0 — 0 0 — —
49 Sam Baker DAL 14 0 0 — 0 — 0 0 — —
50 John Baker PIT 14 0 0 — 0 — 0 0 — —
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