most passing yards by a player buffalo bills in a rookie season

Jim Kelly has the most passing yards by a rookie for the Bills, with 3,593 yards in 1986.

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Data note: Passing Yards: player season data complete from 1932

	NAME	YDS	SEASON	TM	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%	SCK	SCKY
1	Jim Kelly J. Kelly	3,593	1986	BUF	16	285	480	59.4	7.5	224.6	22	17	83.3	4.6	3.5	43	330
2	Dennis Shaw D. Shaw	2,507	1970	BUF	14	178	321	55.5	7.8	179.1	10	20	65.3	3.1	6.2	41	387
3	Josh Allen J. Allen	2,074	2018	BUF	12	169	320	52.8	6.5	172.8	10	12	67.9	3.1	3.8	28	213
4	EJ Manuel	1,972	2013	BUF	10	180	306	58.8	6.4	197.2	11	9	77.7	3.6	2.9	28	159
5	Trent Edwards T. Edwards	1,630	2007	BUF	10	151	269	56.1	6.1	163.0	7	8	70.4	2.6	3.0	12	105
6	Johnny Green J. Green	1,267	1960	BUF	10	89	228	39.0	5.6	126.7	10	10	54.1	4.4	4.4
7	Joe Ferguson J. Ferguson	939	1973	BUF	14	73	164	44.5	5.7	67.1	4	10	45.8	2.4	6.1	20	164
8	Dan Darragh D. Darragh	917	1968	BUF	11	92	215	42.8	4.3	83.4	3	14	33.0	1.4	6.5
9	Daryle Lamonica D. Lamonica	437	1963	BUF	14	33	71	46.5	6.2	31.2	3	4	57.1	4.2	5.6
10	Richie Lucas R. Lucas	314	1960	BUF	14	23	49	46.9	6.4	22.4	2	3	56.0	4.1	6.1
11	Jeff Tuel J. Tuel	309	2013	BUF	2	26	59	44.1	5.2	154.5	1	3	45.1	1.7	5.1	2	11
12	James Harris J. Harris	270	1969	BUF	4	15	36	41.7	7.5	67.5	1	1	65.7	2.8	2.8	9	70
13	Nathan Peterman N. Peterman	252	2017	BUF	4	24	49	49.0	5.1	63.0	2	5	38.4	4.1	10.2	1	5
14	Brian McClure B. McClure	181	1987	BUF	1	20	38	52.6	4.8	181.0	0	3	32.9	0.0	7.9	2	17
15	Willie Totten W. Totten	155	1987	BUF	2	13	33	39.4	4.7	77.5	2	2	49.4	6.1	6.1	5	62
16	Brian Brohm B. Brohm	146	2009	BUF	2	17	29	58.6	5.0	73.0	0	2	43.2	0.0	6.9	2	8
17	Gary Marangi G. Marangi	140	1974	BUF	3	9	18	50.0	7.8	46.7	2	3	73.6	11.1	16.7	1	1
18	Todd Collins T. Collins	112	1995	BUF	7	14	29	48.3	3.9	16.0	0	1	44.0	0.0	3.4	6	43
19	Alex Van Pelt A. Van Pelt	106	1995	BUF	1	10	18	55.6	5.9	106.0	2	0	110.0	11.1	0.0	0	0
20	Cardale Jones C. Jones	96	2016	BUF	1	6	11	54.5	8.7	96.0	0	1	46.0	0.0	9.1	1	2
21	Bob Brodhead B. Brodhead	75	1960	BUF	4	7	25	28.0	3.0	18.8	0	3	0.0	0.0	12.0
22	Jim Braxton J. Braxton	49	1971	BUF	13	1	3	33.3	16.3	3.8	0	0	81.9	0.0	0.0	0	0
23	Gary McDermott G. McDermott	35	1968	BUF	14	2	3	66.7	11.7	2.5	0	0	106.3	0.0	0.0
24	J.P. Losman	32	2004	BUF	4	3	5	60.0	6.4	8.0	0	1	39.2	0.0	20.0	1	0
25	Levi Brown L. Brown	24	2010	BUF	1	2	3	66.7	8.0	24.0	0	1	51.4	0.0	33.3	0	0

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Sun 11/1	BAL	@	BUF	1:00 PM
Mon 11/9	BUF	@	MIN	8:15 PM
Sun 11/15	BUF	@	NYJ	1:00 PM
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Eagles	2	5	0	.286
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NFC North	W	L	T	PCT
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Bears	5	2	0	.714
Lions	4	2	0	.667
Packers	5	3	0	.625
NFC South	W	L	T	PCT
Panthers	3	4	0	.429
Falcons	3	4	0	.429
Buccaneers	2	5	0	.286
Saints	2	5	0	.286
NFC West	W	L	T	PCT
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