most passing yards by running backs in a season

Running backs had their most passing yards in a season in 1939, with 12,381 yards.

	POSITION	YDS	SEASON	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%	SCK	SCKY
1	Running Back	12,381	1939	1,015	839	1,969	42.6	6.3	12.2	86	189	38.8	4.4	9.6
2	Running Back	10,145	1942	1,029	787	1,827	43.1	5.6	9.9	79	171	36.5	4.3	9.4
3	Running Back	10,092	1940	1,040	716	1,661	43.1	6.1	9.7	82	183	40.2	4.9	11.0
4	Running Back	9,940	1941	1,117	753	1,758	42.8	5.7	8.9	71	182	35.2	4.0	10.4
5	Running Back	9,593	1938	983	686	1,726	39.7	5.6	9.8	75	199	33.3	4.3	11.5
6	Running Back	8,661	1937	874	595	1,563	38.1	5.5	9.9	73	190	32.9	4.7	12.2
7	Running Back	8,464	1936	877	581	1,572	37.0	5.4	9.7	61	205	28.7	3.9	13.0
8	Running Back	7,946	1933	818	521	1,470	35.4	5.4	9.7	49	227	25.7	3.3	15.4
9	Running Back	7,906	1943	701	591	1,338	44.2	5.9	11.3	74	147	42.4	5.5	11.0
10	Running Back	7,407	1944	821	507	1,257	40.3	5.9	9.0	66	159	38.2	5.3	12.6
11	Running Back	7,315	1935	800	482	1,436	33.6	5.1	9.1	54	216	24.2	3.8	15.0
12	Running Back	6,784	1934	883	488	1,557	31.3	4.4	7.7	53	204	18.1	3.4	13.1
13	Running Back	5,708	1945	872	345	903	38.2	6.3	6.5	50	109	39.1	5.5	12.1
14	Running Back	5,180	1946	917	344	851	40.4	6.1	5.6	34	92	34.9	4.0	10.8
15	Running Back	4,714	1932	693	327	968	33.8	4.9	6.8	39	93	24.4	4.0	9.6
16	Running Back	4,290	1947	983	256	627	40.8	6.8	4.4	35	57	45.3	5.6	9.1
17	Running Back	4,251	1948	1,009	300	649	46.2	6.6	4.2	35	51	53.1	5.4	7.9
18	Running Back	1,772	1951	824	124	326	38.0	5.4	2.2	13	26	36.5	4.0	8.0
19	Running Back	1,557	1950	834	82	216	38.0	7.2	1.9	13	26	44.2	6.0	12.0
20	Running Back	1,505	1960	1,231	76	182	41.8	8.3	1.2	16	16	64.0	8.8	8.8
21	Running Back	1,354	1949	997	84	227	37.0	6.0	1.4	10	20	35.7	4.4	8.8
22	Running Back	1,291	1952	889	68	194	35.1	6.7	1.5	15	17	48.3	7.7	8.8
23	Running Back	1,044	1962	1,256	52	126	41.3	8.3	0.8	9	12	55.2	7.1	9.5
24	Running Back	889	1965	1,450	30	68	44.1	13.1	0.6	9	10	90.9	13.2	14.7
25	Running Back	821	1967	1,524	28	73	38.4	11.2	0.5	8	4	94.6	11.0	5.5

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

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