most passing yards by a rookie quarterback in nfl history buccaneers

Jameis Winston has the most passing yards for the Buccaneers in his rookie season by a quarterback, with 4,042 yards in 2015.

	NAME	YDS	SEASON	TM	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%	SCK	SCKY
1	Jameis Winston J. Winston	4,042	2015	TB	16	312	535	58.3	7.6	252.6	22	15	84.2	4.1	2.8	27	190
2	Mike Glennon M. Glennon	2,608	2013	TB	13	247	416	59.4	6.3	200.6	19	9	83.9	4.6	2.2	40	314
3	Josh Freeman J. Freeman	1,855	2009	TB	10	158	290	54.5	6.4	185.5	10	18	59.8	3.4	6.2	20	102
4	Bruce Gradkowski B. Gradkowski	1,661	2006	TB	13	177	328	54.0	5.1	127.8	9	9	65.9	2.7	2.7	25	146
5	Doug Williams D. Williams	1,170	1978	TB	10	73	194	37.6	6.0	117.0	7	8	53.4	3.6	4.1	6	69
6	Vinny Testaverde V. Testaverde	1,081	1987	TB	6	71	165	43.0	6.6	180.2	5	6	60.2	3.0	3.6	18	140
7	Steve Young S. Young	935	1985	TB	5	72	138	52.2	6.8	187.0	3	8	56.9	2.2	5.8	21	158
8	Shaun King S. King	875	1999	TB	6	89	146	61.0	6.0	145.8	7	4	82.4	4.8	2.7	11	78
9	Josh Johnson J. Johnson	685	2009	TB	6	63	125	50.4	5.5	114.2	4	8	50.9	3.2	6.4	11	59
10	Jeb Blount J. Blount	522	1977	TB	5	37	89	41.6	5.9	104.4	0	7	28.4	0.0	7.9	18	164
11	Chris Simms C. Simms	467	2004	TB	5	42	73	57.5	6.4	93.4	1	3	64.1	1.4	4.1	10	75
12	Trent Dilfer T. Dilfer	433	1994	TB	5	38	82	46.3	5.3	86.6	1	6	36.3	1.2	7.3	8	42
13	Randy Hedberg R. Hedberg	244	1977	TB	7	25	90	27.8	2.7	34.9	0	10	0.0	0.0	11.1	15	131
14	Parnell Dickinson P. Dickinson	210	1976	TB	8	15	39	38.5	5.4	26.3	1	5	25.5	2.6	12.8	14	124
15	Mike Hold M. Hold	123	1987	TB	2	8	24	33.3	5.1	61.5	2	1	61.6	8.3	4.2	3	18
16	Craig Erickson C. Erickson	121	1992	TB	6	15	26	57.7	4.7	20.2	0	0	69.6	0.0	0.0	2	9
17	Casey Weldon C. Weldon	55	1993	TB	3	6	11	54.5	5.0	18.3	0	1	30.5	0.0	9.1	1	11
18	Kyle Trask K. Trask	23	2022	TB	1	3	9	33.3	2.6	23.0	0	0	42.4	0.0	0.0	0	0
19	Ryan Griffin R. Griffin	18	2019	TB	2	2	4	50.0	4.5	9.0	0	0	62.5	0.0	0.0	0	0
20	Scott Milanovich S. Milanovich	9	1996	TB	1	2	3	66.7	3.0	9.0	0	0	70.1	0.0	0.0	0	0

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

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Falcons	1	.000
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Buccaneers	1	.000
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Sun 9/20	CLE	@	TB	1:00 PM
Sun 9/27	MIN	@	TB	4:05 PM
Sun 10/4	GB	@	TB	1:00 PM
Thu 10/8	TB	@	DAL	8:15 PM
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Sack Leaders

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Rush Yards Rankings

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174.0

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Eagles	1	0	0	1.000
Commanders	0	1	0	.000
Cowboys	0	1	0	.000
NFC North	W	L	T	PCT
Vikings	1	0	0	1.000
Bears	1	0	0	1.000
Lions	1	0	0	1.000
Packers	0	1	0	.000
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Falcons	0	1	0	.000
Buccaneers	0	1	0	.000
Saints	0	1	0	.000
Panthers	0	1	0	.000
NFC West	W	L	T	PCT
49ers	1	0	0	1.000
Cardinals	1	0	0	1.000
Seahawks	1	0	0	1.000
Rams	0	1	0	.000

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Bills	1	0	0	1.000
Patriots	0	1	0	.000
Dolphins	0	1	0	.000
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Ravens	1	0	0	1.000
Steelers	1	0	0	1.000
Bengals	1	0	0	1.000
Browns	0	1	0	.000
AFC South	W	L	T	PCT
Jaguars	1	0	0	1.000
Texans	0	1	0	.000
Titans	0	1	0	.000
Colts	0	1	0	.000
AFC West	W	L	T	PCT
Raiders	1	0	0	1.000
Chiefs	0	0	0
Broncos	0	0	0
Chargers	0	1	0	.000