League Leaders

1983 Passing Yards Leaders

Yards gained passing

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# Player Team G CMP ATT CMP% YDS Y/A TD INT SK RTG
1 Lynn Dickey GB 16 289 484 59.7% 4,458 9.21 32 29 87.3
2 Bill Kenney KC 16 346 603 57.4% 4,348 7.21 24 18 80.8
3 Danny White DAL 16 334 533 62.7% 3,980 7.47 29 23 85.6
4 Joe Montana SF 16 332 515 64.5% 3,910 7.59 26 12 94.6
5 Joe Theismann WAS 16 276 459 60.1% 3,714 8.09 29 11 97.0
6 Brian Sipe CLE 15 291 496 58.7% 3,566 7.19 26 23 79.1
7 Richard Todd NYJ 16 308 518 59.5% 3,478 6.71 18 26 70.3
8 Ron Jaworski PHI 16 235 446 52.7% 3,315 7.43 20 18 75.1
9 Vince Ferragamo LAN 16 274 464 59.1% 3,276 7.06 22 23 75.9
10 Steve Bartkowski ATL 14 274 432 63.4% 3,167 7.33 22 5 97.6
11 Joe Ferguson BUF 16 281 508 55.3% 2,995 5.90 26 25 69.3
12 Dan Fouts SD 10 215 340 63.2% 2,975 8.75 20 15 92.5
13 Jim Plunkett LAA 14 230 379 60.7% 2,935 7.74 20 18 82.7
14 Jack Thompson TB 14 249 423 58.9% 2,906 6.87 18 21 73.3
15 Steve Dils MIN 16 239 444 53.8% 2,840 6.40 11 16 66.8
16 Neil Lomax SLC 13 209 354 59.0% 2,636 7.45 24 11 92.0
17 Eric Hipple DET 16 204 387 52.7% 2,577 6.66 12 18 64.7
18 Cliff Stoudt PIT 16 197 381 51.7% 2,553 6.70 12 21 60.6
19 Scott Brunner NYG 16 190 386 49.2% 2,516 6.52 9 22 54.3
20 Steve Grogan NE 12 168 303 55.5% 2,411 7.96 15 12 81.4
21 Mike Pagel BAC 15 163 328 49.7% 2,353 7.17 12 17 64.0
22 Ken Anderson CIN 13 198 297 66.7% 2,333 7.86 12 13 85.6
23 Dan Marino MIA 11 173 296 58.5% 2,210 7.47 20 6 96.0
24 Jim McMahon CHI 14 175 295 59.3% 2,184 7.40 12 13 77.6
25 Dave Krieg SEA 9 147 243 60.5% 2,139 8.80 18 11 95.0
26 Ken Stabler NO 14 176 311 56.6% 1,988 6.39 9 18 61.4
27 Ed Luther SD 16 151 287 52.6% 1,875 6.53 7 17 56.6
28 John Elway DEN 11 123 259 47.5% 1,663 6.42 7 14 54.9
29 Steve DeBerg DEN 10 119 215 55.4% 1,617 7.52 9 7 79.9
30 Oliver Luck HOO 7 124 217 57.1% 1,375 6.34 8 13 63.4
31 Jeff Rutledge NYG 4 87 174 50.0% 1,208 6.94 3 8 59.3
32 Jim Zorn SEA 16 103 205 50.2% 1,166 5.69 7 7 64.8
33 Turk Schonert CIN 9 92 156 59.0% 1,159 7.43 2 5 73.1
34 Gifford Nielsen HOO 7 90 175 51.4% 1,125 6.43 5 8 62.2
35 Vince Evans CHI 9 76 145 52.4% 1,108 7.64 5 7 69.0
36 Marc Wilson LAA 10 67 117 57.3% 864 7.39 8 6 82.0
37 Dave Wilson NO 8 66 112 58.9% 770 6.88 5 7 68.7
38 Archie Manning HOO 5 44 88 50.0% 755 8.58 2 8 49.2
39 Gary Danielson DET 10 59 113 52.2% 720 6.37 7 4 78.0
40 Jim Hart SLC 5 50 91 55.0% 592 6.51 4 8 53.0
41 Mike Moroski ATL 16 45 70 64.3% 575 8.21 2 4 75.6
42 Tony Eason NE 16 46 95 48.4% 557 5.86 1 5 48.4
43 Tommy Kramer MIN 3 55 82 67.1% 550 6.71 3 4 77.8
44 Jerry Golsteyn TB 5 47 97 48.5% 535 5.52 0 2 56.9
45 David Woodley MIA 5 43 89 48.3% 528 5.93 3 4 59.6
46 Matt Kofler BUF 16 35 61 57.4% 440 7.21 4 3 81.3
47 Don Strock MIA 15 34 52 65.4% 403 7.75 4 1 106.5
48 Paul McDonald CLE 16 32 68 47.1% 341 5.02 1 4 42.6
49 Pat Ryan NYJ 16 21 40 52.5% 259 6.48 2 2 68.7
50 Todd Blackledge KC 4 20 34 58.8% 259 7.62 3 0 112.3
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