most passing yards by a 49ers rookie quarterback in nfl history

Jeff Garcia has the most passing yards by a rookie 49ers quarterback, with 2,544 yards in 1999.

	NAME	YDS	SEASON	TM	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%	SCK	SCKY
1	Jeff Garcia J. Garcia	2,544	1999	SF	13	225	375	60.0	6.8	195.7	11	11	77.9	2.9	2.9	15	104
2	Nick Mullens N. Mullens	2,277	2018	SF	8	176	274	64.2	8.3	284.6	13	10	90.8	4.7	3.6	17	127
3	Steve DeBerg S. DeBerg	1,570	1978	SF	12	137	302	45.4	5.2	130.8	8	22	40.0	2.6	7.3	17	156
4	C.J. Beathard	1,430	2017	SF	7	123	224	54.9	6.4	204.3	4	6	69.2	1.8	2.7	19	141
5	Brock Purdy B. Purdy	1,374	2022	SF	9	114	170	67.1	8.1	152.7	13	4	107.3	7.6	2.4	11	84
6	Tom Owen T. Owen	1,327	1974	SF	10	88	184	47.8	7.2	132.7	10	15	56.1	5.4	8.2	25	202
7	Ken Dorsey K. Dorsey	1,231	2004	SF	8	123	226	54.4	5.4	153.9	6	9	62.4	2.7	4.0	13	94
8	Alex Smith A. Smith	875	2005	SF	9	84	165	50.9	5.3	97.2	1	11	40.8	0.6	6.7	29	185
9	Earl Morrall E. Morrall	621	1956	SF	12	38	78	48.7	8.0	51.8	1	6	48.1	1.3	7.7
10	Trey Lance T. Lance	603	2021	SF	6	41	71	57.7	8.5	100.5	5	2	97.3	7.0	2.8	4	15
11	Elvis Grbac E. Grbac	393	1994	SF	11	35	50	70.0	7.9	35.7	2	1	98.2	4.0	2.0	4	36
12	George Mira G. Mira	331	1964	SF	7	23	53	43.4	6.2	47.3	2	5	37.5	3.8	9.4
13	Billy Kilmer B. Kilmer	286	1961	SF	11	19	34	55.9	8.4	26.0	0	4	44.1	0.0	11.8
14	Scott Bull S. Bull	252	1976	SF	14	21	48	43.8	5.3	18.0	2	4	39.6	4.2	8.3	5	44
15	Jim Druckenmiller J. Druckenmiller	239	1997	SF	4	21	52	40.4	4.6	59.8	1	4	29.2	1.9	7.7	4	32
16	Dennis Morrison D. Morrison	227	1974	SF	3	21	51	41.2	4.5	75.7	1	5	21.9	2.0	9.8	0	0
17	Jeff Brohm J. Brohm	189	1996	SF	3	21	34	61.8	5.6	63.0	1	0	86.5	2.9	0.0	2	10
18	John Brodie J. Brodie	160	1957	SF	5	11	21	52.4	7.6	32.0	2	3	69.6	9.5	14.3
19	Joe Montana J. Montana	96	1979	SF	16	13	23	56.5	4.2	6.0	1	0	81.1	4.3	0.0	0	0
20	Maury Duncan M. Duncan	82	1954	SF	6	4	14	28.6	5.9	13.7	0	2	11.9	0.0	14.3
21	Bob Waters B. Waters	61	1960	SF	8	2	2	100.0	30.5	7.6	1	0	158.3	50.0	0.0
22	Cody Pickett C. Pickett	55	2004	SF	1	4	10	40.0	5.5	55.0	0	2	18.8	0.0	20.0	2	14
23	Mark Stevens M. Stevens	52	1987	SF	2	2	4	50.0	13.0	26.0	1	0	135.4	25.0	0.0	0	0
24	Colin Kaepernick C. Kaepernick	35	2011	SF	3	3	5	60.0	7.0	11.7	0	0	81.3	0.0	0.0	0	0
25	Bill Musgrave B. Musgrave	33	1991	SF	1	4	5	80.0	6.6	33.0	1	0	133.8	20.0	0.0	0	0

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