lions player most passing yards in a season by rookie

Joey Harrington has the most passing yards by a rookie for the Lions, with 2,294 yards in 2002.

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	NAME	YDS	SEASON	TM	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%	SCK	SCKY
1	Joey Harrington J. Harrington	2,294	2002	DET	14	215	429	50.1	5.3	163.9	12	16	59.9	2.8	3.7	8	75
2	Matthew Stafford M. Stafford	2,267	2009	DET	10	201	377	53.3	6.0	226.7	13	20	61.0	3.4	5.3	24	169
3	Jeff Komlo J. Komlo	2,238	1979	DET	16	183	368	49.7	6.1	139.9	11	23	52.8	3.0	6.3	40	361
4	Charlie Batch C. Batch	2,178	1998	DET	12	173	303	57.1	7.2	181.5	11	6	83.5	3.6	2.0	37	222
5	Karl Sweetan K. Sweetan	1,809	1966	DET	10	157	309	50.8	5.9	180.9	4	14	54.3	1.3	4.5
6	Rodney Peete R. Peete	1,479	1989	DET	8	103	195	52.8	7.6	184.9	5	9	67.0	2.6	4.6	27	164
7	Clyde LeForce C. LeForce	1,384	1947	DET	9	94	175	53.7	7.9	153.8	13	20	65.0	7.4	11.4
8	Fred Enke F. Enke	1,328	1948	DET	12	100	221	45.2	6.0	110.7	11	17	49.4	5.0	7.7
9	David Blough D. Blough	984	2019	DET	5	94	174	54.0	5.7	196.8	4	6	64.0	2.3	3.4	14	104
10	Frank Tripucka F. Tripucka	833	1949	DET	6	62	145	42.8	5.7	138.8	9	14	42.8	6.2	9.7
11	Frankie Sinkwich F. Sinkwich	699	1943	DET	10	50	126	39.7	5.5	69.9	7	20	37.2	5.6	15.9
12	Mike McMahon M. McMahon	671	2001	DET	8	53	115	46.1	5.8	83.9	3	1	69.9	2.6	0.9	21	122
13	Todd Hons T. Hons	552	1987	DET	3	43	92	46.7	6.0	184.0	5	5	61.5	5.4	5.4	9	67
14	Cotton Price C. Price	456	1940	DET	9	33	66	50.0	6.9	50.7	3	7	48.1	4.5	10.6
15	Jim Callahan J. Callahan	359	1946	DET	9	22	67	32.8	5.4	39.9	2	7	22.1	3.0	10.4
16	Darrell Tully D. Tully	356	1939	DET	9	20	75	26.7	4.7	39.6	2	13	16.2	2.7	17.3
17	Johnny Pingel J. Pingel	343	1939	DET	9	27	48	56.3	7.1	38.1	3	4	64.8	6.3	8.3
18	Bob Westfall B. Westfall	342	1944	DET	10	23	47	48.9	7.3	34.2	4	6	62.0	8.5	12.8
19	Greg Landry G. Landry	338	1968	DET	4	23	48	47.9	7.0	84.5	2	7	45.7	4.2	14.6
20	Chuck Fenenbock C. Fenenbock	338	1943	DET	10	20	58	34.5	5.8	33.8	3	9	32.8	5.2	15.5
21	Dave Ryan D. Ryan	331	1945	DET	10	13	44	29.5	7.5	33.1	3	10	41.6	6.8	22.7
22	Chuck Long C. Long	247	1986	DET	3	21	40	52.5	6.2	82.3	2	2	67.4	5.0	5.0	8	69
23	Chet Wetterlund C. Wetterlund	230	1942	DET	6	13	44	29.5	5.2	38.3	0	10	9.3	0.0	22.7
24	John Witkowski J. Witkowski	210	1984	DET	3	13	34	38.2	6.2	70.0	0	0	59.7	0.0	0.0	11	74
25	Mike Machurek M. Machurek	193	1984	DET	4	14	43	32.6	4.5	48.3	0	6	8.3	0.0	14.0	1	12

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Packers	3	2	0	.600
Lions	3	2	0	.600
Bears	3	2	0	.600
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