best yards per attempt by qb with 4866+ attempts

Philip Rivers has averaged the most career passing yards per attempt by a quarterback when throwing 4,866+ pass attempts, with 7.8 yards.

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best passing yards per attempt by qb with 4866+ passing attempts

	NAME	AVG	ATT	GP	CMP	PCT	YDS	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%	SCK	SCKY
1	Philip Rivers P. Rivers	7.8	8,226	247	5,335	64.9	63,984	259.0	425	212	95.0	5.2	2.6	470	2,879
2	Johnny Unitas J. Unitas	7.8	5,186	211	2,830	54.6	40,239	190.7	290	253	78.2	5.6	4.9	74	590
3	Dan Fouts D. Fouts	7.7	5,604	181	3,297	58.8	43,040	237.8	254	242	80.2	4.5	4.3	319	2,304
4	Russell Wilson R. Wilson	7.7	6,120	205	3,951	64.6	46,966	229.1	353	114	99.3	5.8	1.9	570	3,749
5	Peyton Manning P. Manning	7.7	9,380	266	6,125	65.3	71,940	270.5	539	251	96.5	5.7	2.7	303	1,953
6	Drew Brees D. Brees	7.6	10,551	287	7,142	67.7	80,358	280.0	571	243	98.7	5.4	2.3	420	2,991
7	Ben Roethlisberger B. Roethlisberger	7.6	8,443	249	5,440	64.4	64,088	257.4	418	211	93.5	5.0	2.5	554	3,670
8	Jared Goff J. Goff	7.6	5,224	151	3,440	65.8	39,622	262.4	256	102	96.8	4.9	2.0	286	2,074
9	Aaron Rodgers A. Rodgers	7.6	8,743	264	5,696	65.1	66,274	251.0	527	123	102.2	6.0	1.4	600	4,088
10	Kirk Cousins K. Cousins	7.6	5,899	174	3,934	66.7	44,700	256.9	298	131	96.8	5.1	2.2	345	2,487
11	Joe Montana J. Montana	7.5	5,391	192	3,409	63.2	40,551	211.2	273	139	92.3	5.1	2.6	313	2,095
12	Matt Ryan M. Ryan	7.4	8,464	234	5,551	65.6	62,792	268.3	381	183	93.6	4.5	2.2	488	3,267
13	Tom Brady T. Brady	7.4	12,050	335	7,753	64.3	89,214	266.3	649	212	97.2	5.4	1.8	565	3,576
14	Matthew Stafford M. Stafford	7.4	8,763	239	5,562	63.5	64,516	269.9	423	196	92.4	4.8	2.2	525	3,515
15	Dan Marino D. Marino	7.3	8,358	242	4,967	59.4	61,361	253.6	420	252	86.4	5.0	3.0	270	1,930
16	Carson Palmer C. Palmer	7.3	6,307	182	3,941	62.5	46,247	254.1	294	187	87.9	4.7	3.0	340	2,364
17	Boomer Esiason B. Esiason	7.3	5,205	187	2,969	57.0	37,920	202.8	247	184	81.1	4.7	3.5	318	2,438
18	Fran Tarkenton F. Tarkenton	7.3	6,467	246	3,686	57.0	47,003	191.1	342	266	80.4	5.3	4.1	274	2,337
19	Warren Moon W. Moon	7.2	6,823	208	3,988	58.4	49,325	237.1	291	233	80.9	4.3	3.4	458	3,415
20	Dave Krieg D. Krieg	7.2	5,311	213	3,105	58.5	38,147	179.1	261	199	81.5	4.9	3.7	494	3,794
21	Jay Cutler J. Cutler	7.1	4,920	153	3,048	62.0	35,133	229.6	227	160	85.3	4.6	3.3	322	2,035
22	Derek Carr D. Carr	7.1	5,785	169	3,765	65.1	41,245	244.1	257	112	92.8	4.4	1.9	303	1,890
23	John Elway J. Elway	7.1	7,250	234	4,123	56.9	51,475	220.0	300	226	79.9	4.1	3.1	516	3,785
24	Jim Everett J. Everett	7.1	4,923	158	2,841	57.7	34,837	220.5	203	175	78.6	4.1	3.6	257	1,885
25	Brett Favre B. Favre	7.1	10,169	302	6,300	62.0	71,838	237.9	508	336	86.0	5.0	3.3	525	3,487

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