Detroit Lions Touchdown Percentage Leaders

Career totals with the Lions and the best single seasons in club history. Includes the 2026 season through September 14: 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.

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Bobby Layne holds the Lions career record with 5.4% touchdown percentage. The single-season record is 8.1%, by Frankie Sinkwich in 1944.

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	TD%	G
1	Bobby Layne	1950–1958	5.4%	97
2	Jared Goff	2021–2026	5.3%	83
3	Greg Landry	1968–1978	4.6%	102
4	Matthew Stafford	2009–2020	4.5%	165
5	Scott Mitchell	1994–1998	4.3%	57
6	Gary Danielson	1976–1984	4.1%	85
7	Eric Hipple	1980–1989	3.6%	102
8	Joey Harrington	2002–2005	3.3%	58

Single-season Lions records

Best seasons in club history

#	Player	Season	TD%	G
1	Frankie Sinkwich	1944	8.1%	10
2	Bobby Layne	1951	7.8%	12
3	Clyde LeForce	1947	7.4%	9
4	Earl Morrall	1963	7.3%	14
5	Jared Goff	2024	6.9%	17
6	Greg Landry	1972	6.7%	14
7	Bobby Layne	1952	6.6%	12
8	Matthew Stafford	2019	6.5%	8
9	Milt Plum	1964	6.3%	12
10	Tobin Rote	1957	6.2%	12
11	Greg Landry	1971	6.1%	14
12	Matthew Stafford	2011	6.1%	16
13	Jared Goff	2025	5.9%	17
14	Bobby Layne	1953	5.9%	12
15	Greg Landry	1976	5.8%	14
16	Bobby Layne	1954	5.7%	12
17	Scott Mitchell	1995	5.5%	16
18	Tobin Rote	1958	5.5%	12
19	Matthew Stafford	2015	5.4%	16
20	Gary Danielson	1978	5.1%	16
20	Matthew Stafford	2017	5.1%	16
22	Gary Danielson	1982	5.1%	8
23	Eric Hipple	1981	5.0%	16
24	Fred Enke	1948	5.0%	12
25	Jared Goff	2023	5.0%	17