Detroit Lions Passing Yards per Game Leaders

Career totals with the Lions and the best single seasons in club history. Includes the 2026 season through October 29: these records are rebuilt every night, so a mark set yesterday is here this morning. Figures before 1932 are reconstructions; the NFL kept no official statistics. Portsmouth Spartans 1930-1933.

Lions records →

Matthew Stafford holds the Lions career record with 273.8 passing yards per game. The single-season record is 318.8, by Matthew Stafford in 2011.

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 Lions leaders

Career totals with the club

#	Player	With the club	Y/G	G
1	Matthew Stafford	2009–2020	273.8	165
2	Jared Goff	2021–2026	264.1	88
3	Scott Mitchell	1994–1998	221.9	57
4	Joey Harrington	2002–2005	176.6	58
5	Bobby Layne	1950–1958	162.0	97
6	Gary Danielson	1976–1984	139.8	85
7	Greg Landry	1968–1978	122.1	102
8	Eric Hipple	1980–1989	105.0	102

Single-season Lions records

Best seasons in club history

#	Player	Season	Y/G	G
1	Matthew Stafford	2011	318.8	16
2	Matthew Stafford	2019	312.4	8
3	Matthew Stafford	2012	310.4	16
4	Matthew Stafford	2013	290.6	16
5	Matthew Stafford	2017	277.9	16
6	Jared Goff	2024	272.3	17
7	Scott Mitchell	1995	271.1	16
8	Matthew Stafford	2016	270.4	16
9	Jared Goff	2023	269.1	17
10	Jared Goff	2025	268.5	17
11	Matthew Stafford	2015	266.4	16
12	Matthew Stafford	2014	266.1	16
13	Jon Kitna	2006	263.0	16
14	Jared Goff	2022	261.1	17
15	Matthew Stafford	2020	255.3	16
16	Jon Kitna	2007	254.1	16
17	Shaun Hill	2010	244.2	11
18	Charlie Batch	2001	239.2	10
19	Matthew Stafford	2018	236.1	16
20	Gus Frerotte	1999	235.2	9
21	Jared Goff	2021	231.8	14
22	Matthew Stafford	2009	226.7	10
23	Scott Mitchell	1997	217.8	16
24	Chuck Long	1987	216.5	12
25	Scott Mitchell	1996	208.4	14