maximum 4 seasons most career pass yards by retired player

Christian Ponder has the most career passing yards by an inactive or retired player when playing 4 or fewer seasons, with 6,658 yards.

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	NAME	YDS	SEAS	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%	SCK	SCKY
1	Christian Ponder C. Ponder	6,658	4	38	632	1,057	59.8	6.3	175.2	38	36	75.9	3.6	3.4	95	501
2	Quincy Carter Q. Carter	6,337	4	38	542	960	56.5	6.6	166.8	32	37	71.7	3.3	3.9	80	441
3	Johnny Lujack J. Lujack	6,295	4	45	404	808	50.0	7.8	139.9	41	54	65.3	5.1	6.7
4	Joe Kapp J. Kapp	5,911	4	51	449	918	48.9	6.4	115.9	40	64	55.1	4.4	7.0	55	429
5	Jake Locker J. Locker	4,967	4	30	408	709	57.5	7.0	165.6	27	22	79.0	3.8	3.1	60	378
6	Butch Songin B. Songin	4,347	3	35	327	694	47.1	6.3	124.2	38	31	67.1	5.5	4.5
7	JaMarcus Russell J. Russell	4,083	3	31	354	680	52.1	6.0	131.7	18	23	65.2	2.6	3.4	70	457
8	Parker Hall P. Hall	4,013	4	42	329	721	45.6	5.6	95.5	30	67	38.5	4.2	9.3
9	Desmond Ridder D. Ridder	4,002	4	26	374	588	63.6	6.8	153.9	16	14	82.6	2.7	2.4	51	294
10	Johnny Green J. Green	3,921	4	30	275	618	44.5	6.3	130.7	26	34	56.7	4.2	5.5
11	Frankie Albert F. Albert	3,847	3	36	316	601	52.6	6.4	106.9	27	43	57.7	4.5	7.2
12	John Skelton J. Skelton	3,707	3	20	320	602	53.2	6.2	185.4	15	25	63.0	2.5	4.2	47	325
13	Heath Shuler H. Shuler	3,691	4	29	292	593	49.2	6.2	127.3	15	33	54.3	2.5	5.6	46	291
14	Timm Rosenbach T. Rosenbach	3,676	3	26	295	551	53.5	6.7	141.4	16	24	66.0	2.9	4.4	52	336
15	Ryan Leaf R. Leaf	3,666	3	25	317	655	48.4	5.6	146.6	14	36	50.0	2.1	5.5	65	377
16	Mickey Slaughter M. Slaughter	3,607	4	40	291	584	49.8	6.2	90.2	22	37	55.5	3.8	6.3
17	Paul Governali P. Governali	3,348	3	32	218	500	43.6	6.7	104.6	31	33	59.5	6.2	6.6
18	Craig Whelihan C. Whelihan	3,160	2	19	267	557	47.9	5.7	166.3	14	29	52.4	2.5	5.2	36	279
19	Cade McNown C. McNown	3,111	2	25	281	515	54.6	6.0	124.4	16	19	67.7	3.1	3.7	45	263
20	DeShone Kizer D. Kizer	3,081	2	18	275	518	53.1	5.9	171.2	11	24	58.9	2.1	4.6	42	264
21	Brady Quinn B. Quinn	3,043	4	24	296	550	53.8	5.5	126.8	12	17	64.4	2.2	3.1	41	236
22	Clyde LeForce C. LeForce	2,961	3	32	197	388	50.8	7.6	92.5	25	37	58.1	6.4	9.5
23	Josh Rosen J. Rosen	2,864	3	24	277	513	54.0	5.6	119.3	12	21	61.1	2.3	4.1	61	413
24	Mike Boryla M. Boryla	2,838	4	23	272	519	52.4	5.5	123.4	20	29	58.1	3.9	5.6	49	400
25	Dwayne Haskins D. Haskins	2,804	2	16	267	444	60.1	6.3	175.3	12	14	74.4	2.7	3.2	49	345

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