who led the league in passing touchdowns from 1970 to 1974

From 1970 through 1974, John Hadl had the most passing touchdowns, with 88 touchdowns.

Regular season

	NAME	TD	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	YDS	AVG	YDS/G	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%	SCK	SCKY
1	John Hadl J. Hadl	88	70	862	1,685	51.2	11,672	6.9	166.7	91	68.5	5.2	5.4	109	891
2	Fran Tarkenton F. Tarkenton	80	68	1,028	1,778	57.8	12,706	7.1	186.9	65	79.8	4.5	3.7	137	1,096
3	Roman Gabriel R. Gabriel	77	67	1,019	1,880	54.2	11,903	6.3	177.7	61	73.8	4.1	3.2	123	914
4	Bob Griese B. Griese	68	60	608	1,076	56.5	8,136	7.6	135.6	53	81.2	6.3	4.9	99	852
5	Jim Hart J. Hart	62	57	719	1,443	49.8	9,692	6.7	170.0	55	70.0	4.3	3.8	84	713
6	Billy Kilmer B. Kilmer	62	60	680	1,229	55.3	8,714	7.1	145.2	56	75.6	5.0	4.6	72	516
7	Jim Plunkett J. Plunkett	59	56	693	1,411	49.1	9,361	6.6	167.2	80	61.0	4.2	5.7	133	1,228
8	Daryle Lamonica D. Lamonica	59	54	491	981	50.1	6,880	7.0	127.4	55	69.7	6.0	5.6	61	536
9	Charley Johnson C. Johnson	57	64	642	1,203	53.4	8,461	7.0	132.2	59	71.2	4.7	4.9	97	714
10	John Brodie J. Brodie	54	48	599	1,069	56.0	7,614	7.1	158.6	54	74.2	5.1	5.1	31	246
11	Joe Namath J. Namath	54	42	539	1,056	51.0	8,194	7.8	195.1	67	67.6	5.1	6.3	46	456
12	Roger Staubach R. Staubach	51	53	548	959	57.1	7,502	7.8	141.5	44	80.9	5.3	4.6	138	942
13	Len Dawson L. Dawson	50	64	687	1,204	57.1	8,513	7.1	133.0	57	73.2	4.2	4.7	131	1,138
14	Greg Landry G. Landry	49	52	472	875	53.9	6,855	7.8	131.8	48	75.5	5.6	5.5	104	760
15	Craig Morton C. Morton	49	64	502	960	52.3	7,042	7.3	110.0	50	71.5	5.1	5.2	65	518
16	Ken Anderson K. Anderson	48	51	635	1,089	58.3	7,790	7.2	152.7	33	82.5	4.4	3.0	101	769
17	Terry Bradshaw T. Bradshaw	48	59	589	1,227	48.0	7,524	6.1	127.5	81	53.2	3.9	6.6	121	1,056
18	Bob Berry B. Berry	46	53	490	844	58.1	6,395	7.6	120.7	44	78.5	5.5	5.2	99	699
19	Norm Snead N. Snead	45	53	642	1,129	56.9	7,566	6.7	142.8	68	65.6	4.0	6.0	52	438
20	Ken Stabler K. Stabler	45	59	411	699	58.8	5,310	7.6	90.0	30	86.3	6.4	4.3	64	514
21	Sonny Jurgensen S. Jurgensen	42	54	451	736	61.3	5,246	7.1	97.1	26	87.1	5.7	3.5	54	426
22	Archie Manning A. Manning	40	50	590	1,153	51.2	7,016	6.1	140.3	58	60.7	3.5	5.0	137	1,028
23	Dennis Shaw D. Shaw	35	47	485	916	52.9	6,286	6.9	133.7	67	57.1	3.8	7.3	123	1,058
24	Mike Phipps M. Phipps	33	70	451	967	46.6	5,805	6.0	82.9	62	50.6	3.4	6.4	107	911
25	Dan Pastorini D. Pastorini	29	53	565	1,106	51.1	6,466	5.8	122.0	60	55.1	2.6	5.4	110	1,000

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