List of National Football League career passing yards leaders

This is a list of National Football League quarterbacks by total career passing yards. This list includes the top 50 quarterbacks who have the most career passing yards during the regular season.

Regular season career passing yards leaders


Through start of 2019 season


 * Note: Y. A. Tittle passed for 33,070 yards in his professional career. However, 4,731 of those yards came in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC). The NFL does not recognize statistics and records accrued in the AAFC. As such, his career passing yards total in the NFL stands at 28,339.

Players with at least 3,000 post season career passing yards
Through start of 2019 season

Players with the most career passing yards including playoff games
Active players are in bold; minimum 60K yards.

Historical passing yards leaders
Ten players are recognized as having held the record as the NFL's career passing yardage leader. The longest record holder was Fran Tarkenton who held the record for 19 years.