League Leaders

1987 Passing Yards Leaders

Yards gained passing

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# Player Team G CMP ATT CMP% YDS Y/A TD INT SK RTG
1 Neil Lomax SLC 12 275 463 59.4% 3,387 7.32 24 12 88.5
2 Boomer Esiason CIN 12 240 440 54.6% 3,321 7.55 16 19 73.1
3 Dan Marino MIA 12 263 444 59.2% 3,245 7.31 26 13 89.2
4 John Elway DEN 12 224 410 54.6% 3,198 7.80 19 12 83.4
5 Joe Montana SF 13 266 398 66.8% 3,054 7.67 31 13 102.1
6 Bernie Kosar CLE 12 241 389 62.0% 3,033 7.80 22 9 95.4
7 Warren Moon HOO 12 184 368 50.0% 2,806 7.63 21 18 74.2
8 Jim Kelly BUF 12 250 419 59.7% 2,798 6.68 19 11 83.8
9 Randall Cunningham PHI 12 223 406 54.9% 2,786 6.86 23 12 83.0
10 Ken O'Brien NYJ 12 234 393 59.5% 2,696 6.86 13 8 82.8
11 Danny White DAL 11 215 362 59.4% 2,617 7.23 12 17 73.2
12 Chuck Long DET 12 232 416 55.8% 2,598 6.25 11 20 63.4
13 Dan Fouts SD 11 206 364 56.6% 2,517 6.92 10 15 70.0
14 Phil Simms NYG 9 163 282 57.8% 2,230 7.91 17 9 90.0
15 Dave Krieg SEA 12 178 294 60.5% 2,131 7.25 23 15 87.6
16 Bobby Hebert NO 12 164 294 55.8% 2,119 7.21 15 9 82.9
17 Bill Kenney KC 11 154 273 56.4% 2,107 7.72 15 9 85.8
18 Wade Wilson MIN 12 140 264 53.0% 2,106 7.98 14 13 76.7
19 Marc Wilson LAA 15 152 266 57.1% 2,070 7.78 12 8 84.6
20 Jim Everett LAN 11 162 302 53.6% 2,064 6.83 10 13 68.4
21 Mark Malone PIT 12 156 336 46.4% 1,896 5.64 6 19 46.7
22 Steve DeBerg TB 12 159 275 57.8% 1,891 6.88 14 7 85.3
23 Jay Schroeder WAS 11 129 267 48.3% 1,878 7.03 12 10 71.0
24 Scott Campbell ATL 12 136 260 52.3% 1,728 6.65 11 14 65.0
25 Jim McMahon CHI 7 125 210 59.5% 1,639 7.81 12 8 87.4
26 Jack Trudeau IND 10 128 229 55.9% 1,587 6.93 6 6 75.4
27 Randy Wright GB 9 132 247 53.4% 1,507 6.10 6 11 61.6
28 Mike Tomczak CHI 12 97 178 54.5% 1,220 6.85 5 10 62.0
29 Steve Grogan NE 7 93 161 57.8% 1,183 7.35 10 9 78.3
30 Doug Williams WAS 5 81 143 56.6% 1,156 8.08 11 5 94.0
31 Gary Hogeboom IND 6 99 168 58.9% 1,145 6.82 9 5 85.0
32 Vinny Testaverde TB 6 71 165 43.0% 1,081 6.55 5 6 60.2
33 Jeff Rutledge NYG 13 79 155 51.0% 1,048 6.76 5 11 53.9
34 Tom Ramsey NE 9 71 134 53.0% 898 6.70 6 6 70.4
35 Don Majkowski GB 7 55 127 43.3% 875 6.89 5 3 70.2
36 Brent Pease HOO 7 56 113 49.6% 728 6.44 3 5 60.6
37 Rusty Hilger LAA 5 55 106 51.9% 706 6.66 2 6 55.8
38 Steve Dils LAN 15 56 114 49.1% 646 5.67 5 4 66.6
39 Steve Pelluer DAL 12 55 101 54.5% 642 6.36 3 2 75.6
40 Scott Tinsley PHI 3 48 86 55.8% 637 7.41 3 4 71.7
41 Vince Evans LAA 3 39 83 47.0% 630 7.59 5 4 72.9
42 Ken Karcher DEN 3 56 102 54.9% 628 6.16 5 4 73.5
43 Tony Adams MIN 3 49 89 55.1% 607 6.82 3 5 64.2
44 Kyle Mackey MIA 3 57 109 52.3% 604 5.54 3 5 58.8
45 John Fourcade NO 3 48 89 53.9% 597 6.71 4 3 75.9
46 Steve Young SF 8 37 69 53.6% 570 8.26 10 0 120.8
47 Alan Risher GB 3 44 74 59.5% 564 7.62 3 3 80.0
48 Erik Kramer ATL 3 45 92 48.9% 559 6.08 4 5 60.0
49 Todd Hons DET 3 43 92 46.7% 552 6.00 5 5 61.5
50 Chris Miller ATL 3 39 92 42.4% 552 6.00 1 9 26.5
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