League Leaders Who Led?

1965 Passing Yards Leaders

Yards gained passing

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# Player Team G CMP ATT CMP% YDS Y/A TD INT SK RTG
1 John Brodie SF 13 242 391 61.9% 3,112 7.96 30 16 95.4
2 Rudy Bukich CHI 14 176 312 56.4% 2,641 8.47 20 9 93.7
3 Fran Tarkenton MIN 14 171 329 52.0% 2,609 7.93 19 11 83.8
4 Johnny Unitas BAC 11 164 282 58.2% 2,530 8.97 23 12 97.4
5 Earl Morrall NYG 14 155 302 51.3% 2,446 8.10 22 12 86.3
6 Charley Johnson SLC 11 155 322 48.1% 2,439 7.58 18 15 73.0
7 Don Meredith DAL 14 141 305 46.2% 2,415 7.92 22 13 79.9
8 Sonny Jurgensen WAS 13 190 356 53.4% 2,367 6.65 15 16 69.6
9 Norm Snead PHI 11 150 288 52.1% 2,346 8.15 15 13 78.0
10 Bart Starr GB 14 140 251 55.8% 2,055 8.19 16 9 89.0
11 Bill Nelsen PIT 12 121 270 44.8% 1,917 7.10 8 17 52.7
12 Frank Ryan CLE 12 119 243 49.0% 1,751 7.21 18 13 75.3
13 Milt Plum DET 14 143 308 46.4% 1,710 5.55 12 19 51.2
14 Bill Munson LAN 10 144 267 53.9% 1,701 6.37 10 14 64.2
15 Roman Gabriel LAN 7 83 173 48.0% 1,321 7.64 11 5 83.0
16 King Hill PHI 7 60 113 53.1% 857 7.58 5 10 55.8
17 Buddy Humphrey SLC 7 58 105 55.2% 736 7.01 1 9 44.8
18 Gary Cuozzo BAC 7 54 105 51.4% 700 6.67 7 4 79.1
19 Jim Ninowski CLE 6 40 83 48.2% 549 6.61 4 3 70.8
20 Dick Shiner WAS 14 28 65 43.1% 470 7.23 3 4 57.9
21 Tommy Wade PIT 4 33 66 50.0% 463 7.02 2 13 43.5
22 George Mira SF 10 28 58 48.3% 460 7.93 4 3 76.8
23 George Izo DET 6 24 59 40.7% 357 6.05 2 6 32.9
24 Zeke Bratkowski GB 6 21 48 43.8% 348 7.25 3 4 54.9
25 Ron Kelen MIN 4 18 40 45.0% 252 6.30 2 0 82.5
26 Ed Brown PIT 14 10 23 43.5% 204 8.87 1 5 50.2
27 Billy Wade CHI 5 20 41 48.8% 204 4.98 0 2 43.1
28 Gary Wood NYG 9 15 36 41.7% 190 5.28 1 2 44.9
29 Jack Concannon PHI 3 12 29 41.4% 176 6.07 1 3 33.8
30 Craig Morton DAL 4 17 34 50.0% 173 5.09 2 4 45.0
31 Jerry Rhome DAL 11 9 21 42.9% 157 7.48 1 1 65.0
32 Earl Gros PHI 14 1 2 50.0% 63 31.50 1 0 135.4
33 Ronnie Bull CHI 13 2 3 66.7% 63 21.00 0 0 109.7
34 John Crow SF 14 2 4 50.0% 61 15.25 1 1 95.8
35 Jon Arnett CHI 14 1 2 50.0% 59 29.50 1 0 135.4
36 Gale Sayers CHI 14 2 3 66.7% 53 17.67 1 1 109.7
37 Elijah Pitts GB 14 1 2 50.0% 51 25.50 0 0 95.8
38 Steve Thurlow NYG 14 1 1 100.0% 49 49.00 0 0 118.8
39 Terry Nofsinger SLC 1 8 20 40.0% 47 2.35 1 1 43.8
40 Charley Taylor WAS 13 1 4 25.0% 45 11.25 1 0 113.5
41 Jim Brown CLE 14 1 2 50.0% 39 19.50 1 0 135.4
42 Dan Lewis WAS 13 1 2 50.0% 26 13.00 1 0 135.4
43 Tom Moore GB 13 2 2 100.0% 22 11.00 0 0 112.5
44 Tom Matte BAC 14 1 7 14.3% 19 2.71 0 1 0.0
45 Paul Hornung GB 12 1 2 50.0% 19 9.50 0 1 43.8
46 Tom Myers DET 1 3 5 60.0% 16 3.20 0 1 25.8
47 Les Josephson LAN 13 1 2 50.0% 15 7.50 1 0 114.6
48 Terry Baker LAN 9 1 1 100.0% 14 14.00 0 0 118.8
49 Dennis Claridge GB 1 1 1 100.0% 13 13.00 0 0 118.8
50 Dan Reeves DAL 13 1 2 50.0% 11 5.50 0 0 66.7
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