most passing yards by a rookie qb in a his first game

Cam Newton had the most passing yards by a rookie quarterback in his first game, with 422 yards versus the Cardinals on September 11, 2011.

	NAME	YDS	DATE	TM		OPP	CMP	ATT	PCT	AVG	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%	SCK	SCKY
1	Cam Newton C. Newton	422	9/11/2011	CAR	@	ARI	24	37	64.9	11.4	2	1	110.4	5.4	2.7	4	19
2	Ed Rubbert E. Rubbert	334	10/4/1987	WAS	vs	STL	14	24	58.3	13.9	3	1	125.0	12.5	4.2	0	0
3	Trevor Lawrence T. Lawrence	332	9/12/2021	JAX	@	HOU	28	51	54.9	6.5	3	3	70.1	5.9	5.9	1	13
4	Bob Waterfield B. Waterfield	329	11/22/1945	CLE	@	DET	12	21	57.1	15.7	2	3	93.9	9.5	14.3
5	Robert Griffin III R. Griffin III	320	9/9/2012	WAS	@	NO	19	26	73.1	12.3	2	0	139.9	7.7	0.0	2	14
6	Clyde LeForce C. LeForce	317	11/16/1947	DET	vs	WAS	15	24	62.5	13.2	3	2	111.1	12.5	8.3
7	Justin Herbert J. Herbert	311	9/20/2020	LAC	vs	KC	22	33	66.7	9.4	1	1	94.4	3.0	3.0	2	15
8	Ryan Fitzpatrick R. Fitzpatrick	310	11/27/2005	STL	@	HOU	19	30	63.3	10.3	3	1	117.4	10.0	3.3	5	22
9	Andrew Luck A. Luck	309	9/9/2012	IND	@	CHI	23	45	51.1	6.9	1	3	52.9	2.2	6.7	3	16
10	Kyler Murray K. Murray	308	9/8/2019	ARI	vs	DET	29	54	53.7	5.7	2	1	75.2	3.7	1.9	5	33
11	Jake Luton J. Luton	304	11/8/2020	JAX	vs	HOU	26	38	68.4	8.0	1	1	90.2	2.6	2.6	2	16
12	Mark Rypien M. Rypien	303	9/25/1988	WAS	@	PHX	26	41	63.4	7.4	3	1	99.9	7.3	2.4	4	21
13	Peyton Manning P. Manning	302	9/6/1998	IND	vs	MIA	21	37	56.8	8.2	1	3	58.6	2.7	8.1	4	29
14	Dick Wood D. Wood	294	9/23/1962	SD	vs	HOU	16	33	48.5	8.9	2	1	87.2	6.1	3.0
15	Jim Kelly J. Kelly	292	9/7/1986	BUF	vs	NYJ	20	33	60.6	8.8	3	0	119.8	9.1	0.0	1	3
16	Jim Zorn J. Zorn	292	9/12/1976	SEA	vs	STL	17	37	45.9	7.9	2	2	68.8	5.4	5.4
17	Patrick Mahomes P. Mahomes	284	12/31/2017	KC	@	DEN	22	35	62.9	8.1	0	1	76.4	0.0	2.9	2	15
18	Mac Jones M. Jones	281	9/12/2021	NE	vs	MIA	29	39	74.4	7.2	1	0	102.6	2.6	0.0	1	13
19	Colt McCoy C. McCoy	281	10/17/2010	CLE	@	PIT	23	33	69.7	8.5	1	2	80.5	3.0	6.1	5	23
20	David Blough D. Blough	280	11/28/2019	DET	vs	CHI	22	38	57.9	7.4	2	1	87.6	5.3	2.6	2	21
21	Scott Tolzien S. Tolzien	280	11/10/2013	GB	vs	PHI	24	39	61.5	7.2	1	2	70.5	2.6	5.1	1	8
22	Carson Wentz C. Wentz	278	9/11/2016	PHI	vs	CLE	22	37	59.5	7.5	2	0	101.0	5.4	0.0	2	8
23	Jake Delhomme J. Delhomme	278	12/24/1999	NO	vs	DAL	16	27	59.3	10.3	2	1	103.6	7.4	3.7	3	29
24	Gardner Minshew G. Minshew	275	9/8/2019	JAX	vs	KC	22	25	88.0	11.0	2	1	122.5	8.0	4.0	1	3
25	Mark Sanchez M. Sanchez	272	9/13/2009	NYJ	@	HOU	18	31	58.1	8.8	1	1	84.3	3.2	3.2	0	0

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