who led the nfl in passing yards in 1939

Davey O'Brien had the most passing yards in 1939, with 1,324 yards in his rookie season.

	NAME	YDS	SEASON	TM	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%
1	Davey O'Brien D. O'Brien	1,324	1939	PHI	11	99	201	49.3	6.6	120.4	6	17	45.3	3.0	8.5
2	Parker Hall P. Hall	1,227	1939	CLE	11	106	208	51.0	5.9	111.5	9	13	57.5	4.3	6.3
3	Arnie Herber A. Herber	1,107	1939	GB	10	57	139	41.0	8.0	110.7	8	9	61.6	5.8	6.5
4	Frank Filchock F. Filchock	1,094	1939	WAS	11	55	89	61.8	12.3	99.5	11	7	111.6	12.4	7.9
5	Ace Parker A. Parker	977	1939	BKN	11	72	157	45.9	6.2	88.8	4	13	40.2	2.5	8.3
6	Bernie Masterson B. Masterson	914	1939	CHB	11	44	113	38.9	8.1	83.1	8	9	58.6	7.1	8.0
7	Cecil Isbell C. Isbell	749	1939	GB	11	43	103	41.7	7.3	68.1	6	5	66.4	5.8	4.9
8	Dwight Sloan D. Sloan	658	1939	DET	10	45	102	44.1	6.5	65.8	2	3	60.0	2.0	2.9
9	Sid Luckman S. Luckman	636	1939	CHB	11	23	51	45.1	12.5	57.8	5	4	91.6	9.8	7.8
10	Sammy Baugh S. Baugh	518	1939	WAS	9	53	96	55.2	5.4	57.6	6	9	52.3	6.3	9.4
11	Jack Robbins J. Robbins	499	1939	CHC	8	36	85	42.4	5.9	62.4	4	10	37.9	4.7	11.8
12	Hugh McCullough H. McCullough	443	1939	PIT	10	32	100	32.0	4.4	44.3	2	12	14.3	2.0	12.0
13	Ed Danowski E. Danowski	437	1939	NYG	11	42	101	41.6	4.3	39.7	3	6	39.9	3.0	5.9
14	Coley McDonough C. McDonough	365	1939	TOT	11	17	47	36.2	7.8	33.2	2	8	39.2	4.3	17.0
15	Darrell Tully D. Tully	356	1939	DET	9	20	75	26.7	4.7	39.6	2	13	16.2	2.7	17.3
16	Johnny Pingel J. Pingel	343	1939	DET	9	27	48	56.3	7.1	38.1	3	4	64.8	6.3	8.3
17	Frank Patrick F. Patrick	291	1939	CHC	8	22	79	27.8	3.7	36.4	1	13	7.1	1.3	16.5
18	Billy Patterson B. Patterson	227	1939	CHB	8	14	38	36.8	6.0	28.4	3	4	44.4	7.9	10.5
19	Bert Johnson B. Johnson	208	1939	TOT	10	14	40	35.0	5.2	20.8	0	5	13.3	0.0	12.5
20	Tuffy Leemans T. Leemans	198	1939	NYG	10	12	26	46.2	7.6	19.8	0	2	40.2	0.0	7.7
21	Eddie Miller E. Miller	195	1939	NYG	8	13	23	56.5	8.5	24.4	2	2	77.3	8.7	8.7
22	Len Barnum L. Barnum	141	1939	NYG	11	8	27	29.6	5.2	12.8	3	1	70.4	11.1	3.7
23	Lou Tomasetti L. Tomasetti	140	1939	PIT	11	13	47	27.7	3.0	12.7	1	7	7.1	2.1	14.9
24	Bob Snyder B. Snyder	135	1939	CHB	8	5	12	41.7	11.3	16.9	0	2	44.1	0.0	16.7
25	Emmett Mortell E. Mortell	134	1939	PHI	8	12	41	29.3	3.3	16.8	1	0	48.8	2.4	0.0

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