qbs bears most pass yards in 1 season from 1973 to 1987

From 1973 through 1987, Jim McMahon had the most passing yards for the Bears by a quarterback in a season, with 2,392 yards in 1985.

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Data note: Passing Yards: player season data complete from 1932

	NAME	YDS	SEASON	TM	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%	SCK	SCKY
1	Jim McMahon J. McMahon	2,392	1985	CHI	13	178	313	56.9	7.6	184.0	15	11	82.6	4.8	3.5	26	125
2	Vince Evans V. Evans	2,354	1981	CHI	16	195	436	44.7	5.4	147.1	11	20	51.1	2.5	4.6	23	173
3	Jim McMahon J. McMahon	2,184	1983	CHI	14	175	295	59.3	7.4	156.0	12	13	77.6	4.1	4.4	42	266
4	Vince Evans V. Evans	2,039	1980	CHI	13	148	278	53.2	7.3	156.8	11	16	66.2	4.0	5.8	26	205
5	Bob Avellini B. Avellini	2,004	1977	CHI	14	154	293	52.6	6.8	143.1	11	18	61.3	3.8	6.1	23	200
6	Bob Avellini B. Avellini	1,718	1978	CHI	13	141	264	53.4	6.5	132.2	5	16	54.8	1.9	6.1	26	208
7	Gary Huff G. Huff	1,663	1974	CHI	13	142	283	50.2	5.9	127.9	6	17	50.4	2.1	6.0	24	260
8	Jim McMahon J. McMahon	1,639	1987	CHI	7	125	210	59.5	7.8	234.1	12	8	87.4	5.7	3.8	22	136
9	Bob Avellini B. Avellini	1,580	1976	CHI	14	118	271	43.5	5.8	112.9	8	15	49.4	3.0	5.5	24	225
10	Mike Phipps M. Phipps	1,535	1979	CHI	12	134	255	52.5	6.0	127.9	9	8	69.6	3.5	3.1	15	145
11	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
12	Mike Tomczak M. Tomczak	1,220	1987	CHI	12	97	178	54.5	6.9	101.7	5	10	62.0	2.8	5.6	9	59
13	Jim McMahon J. McMahon	1,146	1984	CHI	9	85	143	59.4	8.0	127.3	8	2	97.8	5.6	1.4	10	48
14	Vince Evans V. Evans	1,108	1983	CHI	9	76	145	52.4	7.6	123.1	5	7	69.0	3.4	4.8	11	92
15	Mike Tomczak M. Tomczak	1,105	1986	CHI	13	74	151	49.0	7.3	85.0	2	10	50.2	1.3	6.6	4	30
16	Gary Huff G. Huff	1,083	1975	CHI	14	114	205	55.6	5.3	77.4	3	9	57.0	1.5	4.4	16	168
17	Bobby Douglass B. Douglass	1,057	1973	CHI	13	81	174	46.6	6.1	81.3	5	7	59.0	2.9	4.0	27	215
18	Jim McMahon J. McMahon	995	1986	CHI	6	77	150	51.3	6.6	165.8	5	8	61.4	3.3	5.3	6	40
19	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
20	Steve Fuller S. Fuller	777	1985	CHI	16	53	107	49.5	7.3	48.6	1	5	57.3	0.9	4.7	17	102
21	Mike Phipps M. Phipps	630	1980	CHI	7	61	122	50.0	5.2	90.0	2	9	40.0	1.6	7.4	7	69
22	Steve Fuller S. Fuller	595	1984	CHI	6	53	78	67.9	7.6	99.2	3	0	103.3	3.8	0.0	7	41
23	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
24	Vince Evans V. Evans	508	1979	CHI	4	32	63	50.8	8.1	127.0	4	5	66.1	6.3	7.9	8	75
25	Mike Phipps M. Phipps	465	1978	CHI	6	44	83	53.0	5.6	77.5	2	10	38.1	2.4	12.0	6	55

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