List of National Football League passing yardage leaders

This is a list of National Football League quarterbacks by total career passing yards. This list includes all quarterbacks who have thrown for at least 30,000 career passing yards.

Active ranked players listed in bold.

Thru end of 2016 season. All numbers in yards.

Fran Tarkenton was the first quarterback of the expansion Minnesota Vikings in 1961, and Kerry Collins was the first quarterback of the expansion Carolina Panthers in 1995. Both got the first starts of their NFL careers with these teams, and these are the only quarterbacks in NFL history to get their first starts with an expansion team and go on to pass for at least 40,000 yards.

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