1971 Passing Yards Leaders

Yards gained passing

YDS TD RTG Y/A CMP%Y/G CMP ATT 1D TD%INT INT%SK

#	Player	Team	G	CMP	ATT	CMP%	YDS	Y/A	TD	INT	SK	RTG
1	John Hadl	SD	14	233	431	54.1%	3,075	7.14	21	25	—	68.9
2	John Brodie	SF	14	208	387	53.8%	2,642	6.83	18	24	—	65.0
3	Fran Tarkenton	NYG	13	226	386	58.6%	2,567	6.65	11	21	—	65.4
4	Len Dawson	KC	14	167	301	55.5%	2,504	8.32	15	13	—	81.6
5	Bill Nelsen	CLE	14	174	325	53.5%	2,319	7.14	13	23	—	60.3
6	Terry Bradshaw	PIT	14	203	373	54.4%	2,259	6.06	13	22	—	59.7
7	Roman Gabriel	LAN	14	180	352	51.1%	2,238	6.36	17	10	—	75.5
8	Greg Landry	DET	14	136	261	52.1%	2,237	8.57	16	13	—	80.9
9	Billy Kilmer	WAS	14	166	306	54.3%	2,221	7.26	13	13	—	74.0
10	Jim Plunkett	NE	14	158	328	48.2%	2,158	6.58	19	16	—	68.6
11	Bob Griese	MIA	14	145	263	55.1%	2,089	7.94	19	9	—	91.0
12	Bob Berry	ATL	11	136	226	60.2%	2,005	8.87	11	16	—	75.9
13	Pete Liske	PHI	14	143	269	53.2%	1,957	7.28	11	15	—	67.1
14	Roger Staubach	DAL	13	126	211	59.7%	1,882	8.92	15	4	—	104.8
15	Dennis Shaw	BUF	13	149	291	51.2%	1,813	6.23	11	26	—	46.1
16	Daryle Lamonica	OAK	14	118	242	48.8%	1,717	7.10	16	16	—	66.8
17	Dan Pastorini	HOO	14	127	270	47.0%	1,702	6.30	7	21	—	43.8
18	Jim Hart	SLC	11	110	243	45.3%	1,626	6.69	8	14	—	54.7
19	Virgil Carter	CIN	10	138	222	62.2%	1,624	7.32	10	7	—	86.2
20	Earl Morrall	BAC	14	84	167	50.3%	1,210	7.25	7	12	—	58.2
21	Scott Hunter	GB	13	75	163	46.0%	1,210	7.42	7	17	—	46.1
22	Edd Hargett	NO	14	96	210	45.7%	1,191	5.67	6	5	—	63.4
23	Bobby Douglass	CHI	12	91	225	40.4%	1,164	5.17	5	15	—	37.0
24	Archie Manning	NO	12	86	177	48.6%	1,164	6.58	6	9	—	60.1
25	Craig Morton	DAL	10	78	143	54.6%	1,131	7.91	7	8	—	73.5
26	Steve Ramsey	DEN	9	84	178	47.2%	1,120	6.29	5	13	—	46.6
27	Don Horn	DEN	9	89	173	51.5%	1,056	6.10	3	14	—	42.5
28	Pete Beathard	SLC	9	60	141	42.6%	1,030	7.31	6	12	—	46.7
29	Johnny Unitas	BAC	13	92	176	52.3%	942	5.35	3	9	—	52.3
30	Gary Cuozzo	MIN	8	75	168	44.6%	842	5.01	6	8	—	52.2
31	Ken Anderson	CIN	11	72	131	55.0%	777	5.93	5	4	—	72.6
32	Kent Nix	CHI	8	51	137	37.2%	760	5.55	6	10	—	40.4
33	Bob Davis	NYJ	13	49	121	40.5%	624	5.16	10	8	—	57.3
34	Bob Lee	MIN	14	45	90	50.0%	598	6.64	2	4	—	60.3
35	Charley Johnson	HOO	14	46	94	48.9%	592	6.30	3	7	—	48.7
36	Rick Arrington	PHI	10	55	118	46.6%	576	4.88	2	5	—	49.3
37	Joe Namath	NYJ	4	28	59	47.5%	537	9.10	5	6	—	68.2
38	James Harris	BUF	7	51	103	49.5%	512	4.97	1	6	—	43.0
39	Randy Johnson	NYG	5	41	74	55.4%	477	6.45	3	3	—	71.7
40	Norm Snead	MIN	7	37	75	49.3%	470	6.27	1	6	—	40.4
41	Dick Shiner	ATL	10	30	57	52.6%	463	8.12	5	5	—	72.5
42	Al Woodall	NYJ	5	42	97	43.3%	395	4.07	0	2	—	46.5
43	George Blanda	OAK	14	32	58	55.2%	378	6.52	4	6	—	58.6
44	Jack Concannon	CHI	3	42	77	54.6%	334	4.34	0	3	—	49.4
45	Lynn Dickey	HOO	7	19	57	33.3%	315	5.53	0	9	—	13.3
46	Zeke Bratkowski	GB	6	19	37	51.4%	298	8.05	4	3	—	80.7
47	Bart Starr	GB	4	24	45	53.3%	286	6.36	0	3	—	45.2
48	Ken Stabler	OAK	14	24	48	50.0%	268	5.58	1	4	—	39.2
49	Bill Munson	DET	4	21	38	55.3%	216	5.68	1	1	—	69.6
50	Mike Phipps	CLE	14	13	47	27.7%	179	3.81	1	4	—	14.6