most passing yards by a rookie quarterback in nfl history bills

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

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	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	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
10	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
11	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
12	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
13	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
14	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
15	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
16	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
17	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
18	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
19	Bob Brodhead B. Brodhead	75	1960	BUF	4	7	25	28.0	3.0	18.8	0	3	0.0	0.0	12.0
20	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
21	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
22	Frank Reich F. Reich	19	1985	BUF	1	1	1	100.0	19.0	19.0	0	0	118.8	0.0	0.0	0	0
23	Mark Miller M. Miller	9	1987	BUF	1	1	3	33.3	3.0	9.0	0	1	2.8	0.0	33.3	0	0
24	Benny Russell B. Russell	3	1968	BUF	1	1	2	50.0	1.5	3.0	0	0	56.3	0.0	0.0

StatMuse has season-level data for passing yards going back to the 1932 season.

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Bills	3	0	1.000
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DATE	MATCHUP			TIME (ET)
Sun 10/4	NE	@	BUF	1:00 PM
Mon 10/12	BUF	@	LAR	8:15 PM
Sun 10/18	BUF	@	LV	4:25 PM
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Bears	2	1	0	.667
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NFC South	W	L	T	PCT
Panthers	1	2	0	.333
Saints	1	2	0	.333
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Buccaneers	0	3	0	.000
NFC West	W	L	T	PCT
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Thu 10/1	PIT	@	CLE	8:15 PM
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