Chicago Bears Yards per Attempt Leaders

Career totals with the Bears and the best single seasons in club history. Includes the 2026 season through November 1: these records are rebuilt every night, so a mark set yesterday is here this morning. Seasons before 1922 are not in the source. Figures before 1932 are reconstructions; the NFL kept no official statistics.

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Sid Luckman holds the Bears career record with 8.42 yards per attempt. The single-season record is 10.86, by Sid Luckman in 1943.

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

Rate records use the league's own minimums: a season needs 14 pass attempts per team game with the club, a career 1,500+ pass attempts with the club.

All-time Bears leaders

Career totals with the club

#	Player	With the club	Y/A	G
1	Sid Luckman	1939–1950	8.42	128
2	Jim McMahon	1982–1988	7.40	66
3	Jay Cutler	2009–2016	7.17	102
4	Erik Kramer	1994–1998	6.80	49
5	Mitchell Trubisky	2017–2020	6.73	51
6	Jim Harbaugh	1987–1993	6.58	89

Single-season Bears records

Best seasons in club history

#	Player	Season	Y/A	G
1	Sid Luckman	1943	10.86	10
2	Ed Brown	1956	9.92	12
3	Billy Wade	1961	9.03	13
4	Johnny Lujack	1949	8.52	12
5	Rudy Bukich	1965	8.46	14
6	Sid Luckman	1947	8.40	12
7	Josh McCown	2013	8.17	8
8	Sid Luckman	1946	7.97	11
9	Sid Luckman	1945	7.96	10
10	Jim McMahon	1987	7.80	7
11	Billy Wade	1962	7.70	14
12	Jim McMahon	1985	7.64	13
13	Ed Brown	1959	7.62	12
14	Jay Cutler	2010	7.58	15
15	Jay Cutler	2015	7.58	15
16	Mitchell Trubisky	2018	7.43	14
17	Jim McMahon	1983	7.40	14
18	Jay Cutler	2011	7.39	10
19	Jay Cutler	2013	7.38	11
20	Johnny Lujack	1951	7.36	12
21	Erik Kramer	1995	7.35	16
22	Vince Evans	1980	7.33	13
23	Erik Kramer	1998	7.29	8
24	Jim McMahon	1982	7.15	8
25	Ed Brown	1957	7.14	12