most passing yards in a rookie season chicago bears

Caleb Williams has the most passing yards by a Bears rookie, with 3,541 yards in 2024.

	NAME	YDS	SEASON	TM	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%	SCK	SCKY
1	Caleb Williams C. Williams	3,541	2024	CHI	17	351	562	62.5	6.3	208.3	20	6	87.8	3.6	1.1	68	466
2	Mitchell Trubisky M. Trubisky	2,193	2017	CHI	12	196	330	59.4	6.6	182.8	7	7	77.5	2.1	2.1	31	196
3	Justin Fields J. Fields	1,870	2021	CHI	12	159	270	58.9	6.9	155.8	7	10	73.2	2.6	3.7	36	264
4	Kyle Orton K. Orton	1,869	2005	CHI	15	190	368	51.6	5.1	124.6	9	13	59.7	2.4	3.5	30	190
5	Jim McMahon J. McMahon	1,501	1982	CHI	8	120	210	57.1	7.1	187.6	9	7	79.9	4.3	3.3	27	196
6	Cade McNown C. McNown	1,465	1999	CHI	15	127	235	54.0	6.2	97.7	8	10	66.7	3.4	4.3	18	94
7	Zeke Bratkowski Z. Bratkowski	1,087	1954	CHB	12	67	130	51.5	8.4	90.6	8	17	60.8	6.2	13.1
8	Charlie O'Rourke C. O'Rourke	951	1942	CHB	11	37	88	42.0	10.8	86.5	11	16	82.1	12.5	18.2
9	Bob Avellini B. Avellini	942	1975	CHI	8	67	126	53.2	7.5	117.8	6	11	57.0	4.8	8.7	13	144
10	Tyson Bagent T. Bagent	859	2023	CHI	5	94	143	65.7	6.0	171.8	3	6	71.4	2.1	4.2	5	35
11	Bobby Douglass B. Douglass	773	1969	CHI	11	68	148	45.9	5.2	70.3	5	8	50.9	3.4	5.4	37	312
12	Virgil Carter V. Carter	769	1968	CHI	7	55	122	45.1	6.3	109.9	4	5	59.8	3.3	4.1
13	Craig Krenzel C. Krenzel	718	2004	CHI	6	59	127	46.5	5.7	119.7	3	6	52.5	2.4	4.7	23	158
14	Sid Luckman S. Luckman	636	1939	CHB	11	23	51	45.1	12.5	57.8	5	4	91.6	9.8	7.8
15	Johnny Lujack J. Lujack	611	1948	CHB	9	36	66	54.5	9.3	67.9	6	3	97.5	9.1	4.5
16	Gary Huff G. Huff	525	1973	CHI	8	54	126	42.9	4.2	65.6	3	8	36.6	2.4	6.3	22	180
17	Rex Grossman R. Grossman	437	2003	CHI	3	38	72	52.8	6.1	145.7	2	1	74.8	2.8	1.4	4	41
18	Tommy O'Connell T. O'Connell	437	1953	CHB	12	33	67	49.3	6.5	36.4	1	4	50.4	1.5	6.0
19	Doug Flutie D. Flutie	361	1986	CHI	4	23	46	50.0	7.8	90.3	3	2	80.1	6.5	4.3	6	30
20	Young Bussey Y. Bussey	353	1941	CHB	10	13	40	32.5	8.8	35.3	5	3	74.3	12.5	7.5
21	Mike Hohensee M. Hohensee	343	1987	CHI	2	28	52	53.8	6.6	171.5	4	1	92.1	7.7	1.9	3	19
22	Nick Sacrinty N. Sacrinty	299	1947	CHB	11	15	48	31.3	6.2	27.2	5	3	62.8	10.4	6.3
23	Ed Brown E. Brown	283	1954	CHB	12	10	17	58.8	16.6	23.6	3	1	118.3	17.6	5.9
24	Bobby Layne B. Layne	232	1948	CHB	11	16	52	30.8	4.5	21.1	3	2	49.5	5.8	3.8
25	Billy Patterson B. Patterson	227	1939	CHB	8	14	38	36.8	6.0	28.4	3	4	44.4	7.9	10.5

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Ravens - e	8	9	0	.471
Bengals - e	6	11	0	.353
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