vikings player most passing yards in a season by rookie

Teddy Bridgewater has the most passing yards by a rookie for the Vikings, with 2,919 yards in 2014.

	NAME	YDS	SEASON	TM	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%	SCK	SCKY
1	Teddy Bridgewater T. Bridgewater	2,919	2014	MIN	13	259	402	64.4	7.3	224.5	14	12	85.2	3.5	3.0	39	249
2	Fran Tarkenton F. Tarkenton	1,997	1961	MIN	14	157	280	56.1	7.1	142.6	18	17	74.7	6.4	6.1
3	Christian Ponder C. Ponder	1,853	2011	MIN	11	158	291	54.3	6.4	168.5	13	13	70.1	4.5	4.5	30	164
4	J.J. McCarthy	1,632	2025	MIN	10	140	243	57.6	6.7	163.2	11	12	72.6	4.5	4.9	27	149
5	Joe Kapp J. Kapp	1,386	1967	MIN	13	102	214	47.7	6.5	106.6	8	17	48.2	3.7	7.9
6	Todd Bouman T. Bouman	795	2001	MIN	5	51	89	57.3	8.9	159.0	8	4	98.3	9.0	4.5	4	27
7	Joe Webb J. Webb	477	2010	MIN	5	54	89	60.7	5.4	95.4	0	3	60.9	0.0	3.4	8	48
8	Tarvaris Jackson T. Jackson	475	2006	MIN	4	47	81	58.0	5.9	118.8	2	4	62.5	2.5	4.9	8	37
9	Tommy Kramer T. Kramer	425	1977	MIN	6	30	57	52.6	7.5	70.8	5	4	77.0	8.8	7.0	6	45
10	Ron Vander Kelen R. Vander Kelen	376	1963	MIN	6	27	58	46.6	6.5	62.7	1	2	59.3	1.7	3.4
11	Max Brosmer M. Brosmer	328	2025	MIN	7	47	71	66.2	4.6	46.9	0	4	53.0	0.0	5.6	14	100
12	Jaren Hall J. Hall	168	2023	MIN	3	13	20	65.0	8.4	56.0	0	1	70.4	0.0	5.0	4	28
13	Brad Johnson B. Johnson	150	1994	MIN	4	22	37	59.5	4.1	37.5	0	0	68.5	0.0	0.0	1	5
14	John McCormick J. McCormick	104	1962	MIN	13	7	18	38.9	5.8	8.0	0	5	19.0	0.0	27.8
15	Alfred Anderson A. Anderson	95	1984	MIN	16	3	7	42.9	13.6	5.9	2	1	89.9	28.6	14.3	2	8
16	Sidney Rice S. Rice	94	2007	MIN	13	2	2	100.0	47.0	7.2	0	0	118.8	0.0	0.0	0	0
17	Bob Lee B. Lee	79	1969	MIN	14	7	11	63.6	7.2	5.6	1	0	115.3	9.1	0.0	0	0
18	Bill Cappleman B. Cappleman	49	1970	MIN	1	4	7	57.1	7.0	49.0	0	0	78.9	0.0	0.0	0	0
19	Wade Wilson W. Wilson	48	1981	MIN	3	6	13	46.2	3.7	16.0	0	2	16.3	0.0	15.4	2	19
20	Jay Fiedler J. Fiedler	41	1998	MIN	5	3	7	42.9	5.9	8.2	0	1	22.6	0.0	14.3	0	0
21	Jay Walker J. Walker	31	1996	MIN	1	2	2	100.0	15.5	31.0	0	0	118.8	0.0	0.0	0	0
22	Rich Gannon R. Gannon	18	1987	MIN	4	2	6	33.3	3.0	4.5	0	1	2.8	0.0	16.7	0	0
23	Ryan Wright R. Wright	13	2022	MIN	17	1	2	50.0	6.5	0.8	0	0	70.8	0.0	0.0	0	0
24	Kellen Mond K. Mond	5	2021	MIN	1	2	3	66.7	1.7	5.0	0	0	70.1	0.0	0.0	0	0
25	Steve Bono S. Bono	5	1985	MIN	1	1	10	10.0	0.5	5.0	0	0	39.6	0.0	0.0	2	13

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