most yards per pass attempt among active nfl players

Brock Purdy has averaged the most career passing yards per attempt by an active quarterback, with 8.6 yards.

Interpreted as:

most yards with a minimum of 750 passing attempts per pass attempt among active NFL players

	NAME	AVG	ATT	GP	CMP	PCT	YDS	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%	SCK	SCKY
1	Brock Purdy B. Purdy	8.6	1,353	49	919	67.9	11,685	238.5	84	37	104.0	6.2	2.7	81	446
2	Drake Maye D. Maye	8.0	830	30	579	69.8	6,670	222.3	46	18	103.1	5.5	2.2	81	430
3	Nick Mullens N. Mullens	8.0	808	38	533	66.0	6,448	169.7	34	31	88.3	4.2	3.8	48	371
4	Lamar Jackson L. Jackson	7.8	2,888	116	1,870	64.8	22,608	194.9	187	56	102.2	6.5	1.9	228	1,247
5	Deshaun Watson D. Watson	7.8	2,305	73	1,527	66.2	17,904	245.3	123	48	98.8	5.3	2.1	244	1,432
6	Patrick Mahomes P. Mahomes	7.7	4,673	126	3,093	66.2	35,939	285.2	267	85	100.8	5.7	1.8	218	1,412
7	Jameis Winston J. Winston	7.6	3,243	108	1,981	61.1	24,792	229.6	156	113	86.4	4.8	3.5	222	1,383
8	Jared Goff J. Goff	7.6	5,224	151	3,440	65.8	39,622	262.4	256	102	96.8	4.9	2.0	286	2,074
9	Dak Prescott D. Prescott	7.6	4,759	139	3,184	66.9	35,989	258.9	243	92	98.3	5.1	1.9	287	1,737
10	Jordan Love J. Love	7.6	1,526	57	981	64.3	11,535	202.4	83	31	96.8	5.4	2.0	68	529
11	Tua Tagovailoa T. Tagovailoa	7.5	2,421	78	1,647	68.0	18,166	232.9	120	59	96.4	5.0	2.4	141	971
12	Marcus Mariota M. Mariota	7.5	2,389	104	1,500	62.8	17,879	171.9	107	62	89.7	4.5	2.6	205	1,334
13	C.J. Stroud	7.5	1,454	46	928	63.8	10,876	236.4	62	25	93.5	4.3	1.7	113	928
14	Jalen Hurts J. Hurts	7.5	2,393	93	1,542	64.4	17,891	192.4	110	45	94.4	4.6	1.9	183	1,114
15	Joe Burrow J. Burrow	7.4	2,806	77	1,921	68.5	20,810	270.3	157	51	101.1	5.6	1.8	213	1,431
16	Josh Allen J. Allen	7.4	4,088	128	2,615	64.0	30,102	235.2	220	94	94.4	5.4	2.3	229	1,448
17	Matthew Stafford M. Stafford	7.4	8,763	239	5,562	63.5	64,516	269.9	423	196	92.4	4.8	2.2	525	3,515
18	Teddy Bridgewater T. Bridgewater	7.3	2,082	83	1,380	66.3	15,182	182.9	75	47	90.3	3.6	2.3	168	1,135
19	Baker Mayfield B. Mayfield	7.2	3,938	123	2,500	63.5	28,525	231.9	197	101	91.2	5.0	2.6	286	1,820
20	Justin Herbert J. Herbert	7.2	3,438	95	2,285	66.5	24,820	261.3	163	58	96.3	4.7	1.7	225	1,416
21	Sam Darnold S. Darnold	7.2	2,833	100	1,766	62.3	20,431	204.3	123	82	86.5	4.3	2.9	224	1,493
22	Geno Smith G. Smith	7.1	3,103	109	2,023	65.2	22,168	203.4	124	89	87.5	4.0	2.9	277	1,998
23	Andy Dalton A. Dalton	7.0	5,651	179	3,539	62.6	39,793	222.3	254	151	87.5	4.5	2.7	363	2,372
24	Kyler Murray K. Murray	7.0	2,941	87	1,974	67.1	20,460	235.2	121	60	92.2	4.1	2.0	195	1,413
25	Gardner Minshew G. Minshew	6.9	1,742	63	1,100	63.1	11,987	190.3	68	35	88.0	3.9	2.0	134	741

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Texans - w	12	5	0	.706
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