most passing yards among active players from 1920 to 2017

Between the 1920 and 2017 seasons, Philip Rivers had the most passing yards by an active quarterback, with 50,348 yards.

	NAME	YDS	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%	SCK	SCKY
1	Philip Rivers P. Rivers	50,348	196	4,171	6,492	64.2	7.8	256.9	342	166	94.8	5.3	2.6	380	2,298
2	Aaron Rodgers A. Rodgers	38,502	149	3,188	4,895	65.1	7.9	258.4	313	78	103.8	6.4	1.6	363	2,331
3	Joe Flacco J. Flacco	35,780	154	3,267	5,291	61.7	6.8	232.3	200	130	84.1	3.8	2.5	317	2,281
4	Matthew Stafford M. Stafford	34,749	125	3,005	4,850	62.0	7.2	278.0	216	118	88.3	4.5	2.4	289	1,850
5	Andy Dalton A. Dalton	25,534	109	2,217	3,556	62.3	7.2	234.3	167	93	88.7	4.7	2.6	220	1,332
6	Russell Wilson R. Wilson	22,176	96	1,815	2,834	64.0	7.8	231.0	161	56	98.8	5.7	2.0	248	1,597
7	Kirk Cousins K. Cousins	16,206	62	1,372	2,096	65.5	7.7	261.4	99	55	93.7	4.7	2.6	106	847
8	Jameis Winston J. Winston	11,636	45	939	1,544	60.8	7.5	258.6	69	44	87.2	4.5	2.8	95	636
9	Marcus Mariota M. Mariota	9,476	42	787	1,274	61.8	7.4	225.6	58	34	88.6	4.6	2.7	88	587
10	Tyrod Taylor T. Taylor	9,056	58	793	1,271	62.4	7.1	156.1	51	18	91.2	4.0	1.4	129	693
11	Case Keenum C. Keenum	8,771	41	779	1,258	61.9	7.0	213.9	46	27	86.0	3.7	2.1	71	520
12	Carson Wentz C. Wentz	7,078	29	644	1,047	61.5	6.8	244.1	49	21	88.8	4.7	2.0	61	375
13	Dak Prescott D. Prescott	6,991	32	619	949	65.2	7.4	218.5	45	17	95.5	4.7	1.8	57	328
14	Geno Smith G. Smith	6,174	35	522	902	57.9	6.8	176.4	29	36	72.9	3.2	4.0	80	540
15	Teddy Bridgewater T. Bridgewater	6,150	30	551	851	64.7	7.2	205.0	28	22	86.3	3.3	2.6	83	556
16	Jared Goff J. Goff	4,893	22	408	682	59.8	7.2	222.4	33	14	89.4	4.8	2.1	51	394
17	Jacoby Brissett J. Brissett	3,498	19	310	524	59.2	6.7	184.1	13	7	81.9	2.5	1.3	58	351
18	Jimmy Garoppolo J. Garoppolo	2,250	23	183	272	67.3	8.3	97.8	12	5	99.7	4.4	1.8	16	108
19	Mitchell Trubisky M. Trubisky	2,193	12	196	330	59.4	6.6	182.8	7	7	77.5	2.1	2.1	31	196
20	Deshaun Watson D. Watson	1,699	7	126	204	61.8	8.3	242.7	19	8	103.0	9.3	3.9	19	116
21	Josh Johnson J. Johnson	1,042	29	96	177	54.2	5.9	35.9	5	10	57.7	2.8	5.6	17	99
22	Patrick Mahomes P. Mahomes	284	1	22	35	62.9	8.1	284.0	0	1	76.4	0.0	2.9	2	15
23	Johnny Hekker J. Hekker	137	96	9	15	60.0	9.1	1.4	1	0	112.4	6.7	0.0	0	0
24	Tress Way T. Way	31	64	1	1	100.0	31.0	0.5	0	0	118.8	0.0	0.0	0	0
25	Sam Martin S. Martin	27	74	2	2	100.0	13.5	0.4	0	0	118.8	0.0	0.0	0	0

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