quarterbacks with most passing yards in 1951

Bobby Layne had the most passing yards by a quarterback in 1951, with 2,403 yards.

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	NAME	YDS	SEASON	TM	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%
1	Bobby Layne B. Layne	2,403	1951	DET	12	152	332	45.8	7.2	200.3	26	23	67.6	7.8	6.9
2	Otto Graham O. Graham	2,205	1951	CLE	12	147	265	55.5	8.3	183.8	17	16	79.2	6.4	6.0
3	Bob Celeri B. Celeri	1,797	1951	NYY	11	102	238	42.9	7.6	163.4	12	15	59.8	5.0	6.3
4	Norm Van Brocklin N. Van Brocklin	1,725	1951	LA	12	100	194	51.5	8.9	143.8	13	11	80.8	6.7	5.7
5	Bob Waterfield B. Waterfield	1,566	1951	LA	11	88	176	50.0	8.9	142.4	13	10	81.8	7.4	5.7
6	Tobin Rote T. Rote	1,540	1951	GB	12	106	256	41.4	6.0	128.3	15	20	48.6	5.9	7.8
7	Adrian Burk A. Burk	1,329	1951	PHI	12	92	218	42.2	6.1	110.8	14	23	44.5	6.4	10.6
8	Bobby Thomason B. Thomason	1,306	1951	GB	11	125	221	56.6	5.9	118.7	11	9	73.5	5.0	4.1
9	Johnny Lujack J. Lujack	1,295	1951	CHB	12	85	176	48.3	7.4	107.9	8	8	69.2	4.5	4.5
10	Charlie Conerly C. Conerly	1,277	1951	NYG	12	93	189	49.2	6.8	106.4	10	22	49.3	5.3	11.6
11	Charley Trippi C. Trippi	1,191	1951	CHC	12	88	191	46.1	6.2	99.3	8	13	52.1	4.2	6.8
12	Frankie Albert F. Albert	1,116	1951	SF	12	90	166	54.2	6.7	93.0	5	10	60.2	3.0	6.0
13	Sammy Baugh S. Baugh	1,104	1951	WAS	12	67	154	43.5	7.2	92.0	7	17	43.8	4.5	11.0
14	Jim Hardy J. Hardy	809	1951	CHC	7	56	114	49.1	7.1	115.6	3	10	44.8	2.6	8.8
15	Y.A. Tittle	808	1951	SF	12	63	114	55.3	7.1	67.3	8	9	68.2	7.0	7.9
16	Steve Romanik S. Romanik	791	1951	CHB	12	43	101	42.6	7.8	65.9	3	9	43.0	3.0	8.9
17	George Ratterman G. Ratterman	340	1951	NYY	6	31	67	46.3	5.1	56.7	2	6	34.4	3.0	9.0
18	Bill Mackrides B. Mackrides	333	1951	PHI	6	23	54	42.6	6.2	55.5	3	5	43.2	5.6	9.3
19	John Rauch J. Rauch	288	1951	TOT	10	30	94	31.9	3.1	28.8	1	4	27.3	1.1	4.3
20	Frank Tripucka F. Tripucka	244	1951	CHC	3	17	29	58.6	8.4	81.3	2	1	94.6	6.9	3.4
21	Travis Tidwell T. Tidwell	155	1951	NYG	6	8	21	38.1	7.4	25.8	1	4	40.9	4.8	19.0
22	Bob Williams B. Williams	146	1951	CHB	8	14	33	42.4	4.4	18.3	1	2	40.7	3.0	6.1
23	Fred Enke F. Enke	22	1951	DET	12	2	9	22.2	2.4	1.8	0	1	0.0	0.0	11.1
24	Bev Wallace B. Wallace	9	1951	NYY	1	1	8	12.5	1.1	9.0	0	0	39.6	0.0	0.0

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

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