most rushing yards by a rookie qb in a season before 2004

Before 2004, Billy Kilmer rushed for the most yards by a rookie quarterback, with 509 yards in 1961.

	NAME	RUSH YDS	SEASON	TM	GP	ATT	YPC	RUSH YDS/G	RUSH TD	REC YDS	REC	TRG	AVG	REC YDS/G	REC TD
1	Billy Kilmer B. Kilmer	509	1961	SF	11	96	5.3	46.3	10	0	0			0.0	0
2	Bill Shepherd B. Shepherd	425	1935	TOT	12	143	3.0	35.4	4	33	4		8.3	2.8	0
3	Bobby Douglass B. Douglass	408	1969	CHI	11	51	8.0	37.1	2	0	0			0.0	0
4	Fred Enke F. Enke	365	1948	DET	12	74	4.9	30.4	0	6	1		6.0	0.5	0
5	Merle Hapes M. Hapes	363	1942	NYG	11	95	3.8	33.0	3	79	10		7.9	7.2	2
6	Rick Mirer R. Mirer	343	1993	SEA	16	68	5.0	21.4	3	0	0			0.0	0
7	Donovan McNabb D. McNabb	313	1999	PHI	12	47	6.7	26.1	0	-6	1	1	-6.0	-0.5	0
8	Marlin Briscoe M. Briscoe	308	1968	DEN	11	41	7.5	28.0	3	0	0			0.0	0
9	Fran Tarkenton F. Tarkenton	308	1961	MIN	14	56	5.5	22.0	5	0	0			0.0	0
10	Troy Aikman T. Aikman	302	1989	DAL	11	38	7.9	27.5	0	-13	1		-13.0	-1.2	0
11	George Shaw G. Shaw	301	1955	BAL	12	68	4.4	25.1	3	0	0			0.0	0
12	Michael Vick M. Vick	289	2001	ATL	8	31	9.3	36.1	1	0	0	0		0.0	0
13	David Carr D. Carr	282	2002	HOU	16	59	4.8	17.6	3	0	0	0		0.0	0
14	Walt Nielsen W. Nielsen	269	1940	NYG	9	73	3.7	29.9	1	17	2		8.5	1.9	0
15	Tim Couch T. Couch	267	1999	CLE	15	40	6.7	17.8	1	0	0	0		0.0	0
16	Virgil Carter V. Carter	265	1968	CHI	7	48	5.5	37.9	4	0	0			0.0	0
17	Steve Fuller S. Fuller	264	1979	KC	16	50	5.3	16.5	1	0	0			0.0	0
18	M.C. Reynolds	252	1958	CHC	11	48	5.3	22.9	0	0	0			0.0	0
19	Jim Zorn J. Zorn	246	1976	SEA	14	52	4.7	17.6	4	0	0			0.0	0
20	Tom Harmon T. Harmon	236	1946	LA	10	47	5.0	23.6	2	199	10		19.9	19.9	2
21	Steve Young S. Young	233	1985	TB	5	40	5.8	46.6	1	0	0			0.0	0
22	Terry Bradshaw T. Bradshaw	233	1970	PIT	13	32	7.3	17.9	1	0	0			0.0	0
23	Jeff Garcia J. Garcia	231	1999	SF	13	45	5.1	17.8	2	0	0	0		0.0	0
24	Charlie Batch C. Batch	229	1998	DET	12	41	5.6	19.1	1	0	0			0.0	0
25	Karl Sweetan K. Sweetan	219	1966	DET	10	34	6.4	21.9	1	0	0			0.0	0

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