which retired nfl player most passing yards in they last 5 seasons

From 2022 through 2026, Russell Wilson has the most passing yards by an inactive or retired player, with 9,907 yards.

	NAME	YDS	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%	SCK	SCKY
1	Russell Wilson R. Wilson	9,907	47	872	1,385	63.0	7.2	210.8	61	27	90.9	4.4	1.9	143	911
2	Derek Carr D. Carr	9,545	42	869	1,329	65.4	7.2	227.3	64	27	94.1	4.8	2.0	66	457
3	Tom Brady T. Brady	4,694	17	490	733	66.8	6.4	276.1	25	9	90.7	3.4	1.2	22	160
4	Ryan Tannehill R. Tannehill	4,152	22	361	555	65.0	7.5	188.7	17	13	87.9	3.1	2.3	65	468
5	Desmond Ridder D. Ridder	4,002	26	374	588	63.6	6.8	153.9	16	14	82.6	2.7	2.4	51	294
6	Jimmy Garoppolo J. Garoppolo	3,976	22	344	518	66.4	7.7	180.7	25	14	94.2	4.8	2.7	35	216
7	Will Levis W. Levis	3,899	21	339	556	61.0	7.0	185.7	21	16	82.7	3.8	2.9	69	418
8	Matt Ryan M. Ryan	3,057	12	309	461	67.0	6.6	254.8	14	13	83.9	3.0	2.8	38	287
9	Taylor Heinicke T. Heinicke	2,777	18	238	400	59.5	6.9	154.3	17	10	84.3	4.3	2.5	30	216
10	Jake Browning J. Browning	2,707	17	252	368	68.5	7.4	159.2	18	15	89.1	4.9	4.1	33	229
11	P.J. Walker	1,405	12	117	217	53.9	6.5	117.1	4	8	64.8	1.8	3.7	18	136
12	Mike White M. White	1,294	11	111	192	57.8	6.7	117.6	4	5	74.4	2.1	2.6	9	76
13	Trevor Siemian T. Siemian	908	8	101	179	56.4	5.1	113.5	3	5	64.2	1.7	2.8	10	54
14	Dorian Thompson-Robinson D. Thompson-Robinson	880	15	121	230	52.6	3.8	58.7	1	10	45.2	0.4	4.3	14	107
15	Colt McCoy C. McCoy	780	4	90	132	68.2	5.9	195.0	1	3	76.6	0.8	2.3	13	97
16	Teddy Bridgewater T. Bridgewater	745	10	57	94	60.6	7.9	74.5	4	4	82.1	4.3	4.3	9	66
17	Tim Boyle T. Boyle	669	7	77	135	57.0	5.0	95.6	2	7	53.6	1.5	5.2	11	75
18	Brett Rypien B. Rypien	655	8	71	126	56.3	5.2	81.9	2	5	59.5	1.6	4.0	11	67
19	Philip Rivers P. Rivers	544	3	58	92	63.0	5.9	181.3	4	3	80.2	4.3	3.3	5	37
20	Trace McSorley T. McSorley	412	6	45	83	54.2	5.0	68.7	0	5	42.8	0.0	6.0	3	27
21	David Blough D. Blough	402	2	38	58	65.5	6.9	201.0	2	2	82.7	3.4	3.4	5	24
22	Taysom Hill T. Hill	401	53	23	40	57.5	10.0	7.6	4	1	114.7	10.0	2.5	4	18
23	John Wolford J. Wolford	390	4	38	62	61.3	6.3	97.5	1	3	64.6	1.6	4.8	7	49
24	C.J. Beathard	384	12	47	64	73.4	6.0	32.0	1	1	87.0	1.6	1.6	7	32
25	Anthony Brown A. Brown	302	2	22	49	44.9	6.2	151.0	0	2	48.2	0.0	4.1	5	14

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