quarterbacks with most passing yards in 1953

Otto Graham had the most passing yards by a quarterback in 1953, with 2,722 yards.

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	NAME	YDS	SEASON	TM	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%
1	Otto Graham O. Graham	2,722	1953	CLE	12	167	258	64.7	10.6	226.8	11	9	99.7	4.3	3.5
2	Bobby Thomason B. Thomason	2,462	1953	PHI	12	162	304	53.3	8.1	205.2	21	20	75.8	6.9	6.6
3	Norm Van Brocklin N. Van Brocklin	2,393	1953	LA	12	156	286	54.5	8.4	199.4	19	14	84.1	6.6	4.9
4	George Blanda G. Blanda	2,164	1953	CHB	12	169	362	46.7	6.0	180.3	14	23	52.3	3.9	6.4
5	Y.A. Tittle	2,121	1953	SF	11	149	259	57.5	8.2	192.8	20	16	84.1	7.7	6.2
6	Bobby Layne B. Layne	2,088	1953	DET	12	125	273	45.8	7.6	174.0	16	21	59.6	5.9	7.7
7	Charlie Conerly C. Conerly	1,711	1953	NYG	12	143	303	47.2	5.6	142.6	13	25	44.9	4.3	8.3
8	Jim Finks J. Finks	1,484	1953	PIT	11	131	292	44.9	5.1	134.9	8	14	49.8	2.7	4.8
9	Jim Root J. Root	1,149	1953	CHC	11	80	192	41.7	6.0	104.5	8	11	51.8	4.2	5.7
10	Fred Enke F. Enke	1,054	1953	BAL	8	71	169	42.0	6.2	131.8	8	15	41.9	4.7	8.9
11	Tobin Rote T. Rote	1,005	1953	GB	12	72	185	38.9	5.4	83.8	5	15	32.4	2.7	8.1
12	Eddie LeBaron E. LeBaron	874	1953	WAS	12	62	149	41.6	5.9	72.8	3	17	28.3	2.0	11.4
13	Jack Scarbath J. Scarbath	862	1953	WAS	12	45	129	34.9	6.7	71.8	9	12	43.5	7.0	9.3
14	Babe Parilli B. Parilli	830	1953	GB	12	74	166	44.6	5.0	69.2	4	19	28.5	2.4	11.4
15	Adrian Burk A. Burk	788	1953	PHI	10	56	119	47.1	6.6	78.8	4	9	48.6	3.4	7.6
16	Steve Romanik S. Romanik	650	1953	TOT	7	51	125	40.8	5.2	92.9	4	11	31.8	3.2	8.8
17	Bill Mackrides B. Mackrides	506	1953	TOT	7	54	109	49.5	4.6	72.3	2	8	38.2	1.8	7.3
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	George Ratterman G. Ratterman	301	1953	CLE	9	23	41	56.1	7.3	33.4	4	0	111.9	9.8	0.0
20	Jim Powers J. Powers	259	1953	SF	12	22	49	44.9	5.3	21.6	1	2	51.3	2.0	4.1
21	Jack Del Bello J. Del Bello	229	1953	BAL	5	27	61	44.3	3.8	45.8	1	5	25.9	1.6	8.2
22	Ray Nagel R. Nagel	192	1953	CHC	4	30	62	48.4	3.1	48.0	0	5	21.7	0.0	8.1
23	Tom Dublinski T. Dublinski	174	1953	DET	7	14	30	46.7	5.8	24.9	0	5	25.6	0.0	16.7
24	Rudy Bukich R. Bukich	169	1953	LA	8	14	32	43.8	5.3	21.1	0	3	21.5	0.0	9.4
25	Arnie Galiffa A. Galiffa	129	1953	NYG	3	4	13	30.8	9.9	43.0	1	5	55.1	7.7	38.5

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