most passing yards defensive back all-time

Harry Gilmer has the most career passing yards by a defensive back, with 409 yards.

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Data note: Passing Yards: player season data complete from 1932

	NAME	YDS	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%	SCK	SCKY
1	Harry Gilmer H. Gilmer	409	22	33	75	44.0	5.5	18.6	1	7	27.0	1.3	9.3
2	Jim Youel J. Youel	352	9	20	48	41.7	7.3	39.1	2	3	55.2	4.2	6.3
3	John Roach J. Roach	340	20	22	57	38.6	6.0	17.0	2	4	41.6	3.5	7.0
4	Irv Comp I. Comp	335	30	16	50	32.0	6.7	11.2	1	8	23.8	2.0	16.0
5	Bobby Gage B. Gage	294	10	21	58	36.2	5.1	29.4	1	5	23.2	1.7	8.6
6	Ed Brown E. Brown	283	12	10	17	58.8	16.6	23.6	3	1	118.3	17.6	5.9
7	George Taliaferro G. Taliaferro	251	12	13	33	39.4	7.6	20.9	1	3	38.8	3.0	9.1
8	Jim Finks J. Finks	236	21	19	33	57.6	7.2	11.2	1	2	64.7	3.0	6.1
9	Frank Reagan F. Reagan	191	57	12	25	48.0	7.6	3.4	1	2	53.9	4.0	8.0
10	Tom Landry T. Landry	172	70	11	47	23.4	3.7	2.5	1	7	9.8	2.1	14.9
11	Shorty McWilliams S. McWilliams	113	10	5	8	62.5	14.1	11.3	0	1	66.7	0.0	12.5
12	Jim Powers J. Powers	108	22	9	20	45.0	5.4	4.9	0	2	22.5	0.0	10.0
13	Tom Farris T. Farris	108	11	8	21	38.1	5.1	9.8	1	2	31.5	4.8	9.5
14	Cliff Lewis C. Lewis	106	23	5	10	50.0	10.6	4.6	2	1	87.9	20.0	10.0
15	Jack Jacobs J. Jacobs	98	9	5	12	41.7	8.2	10.9	0	2	31.3	0.0	16.7
16	Robert Golden R. Golden	69	92	2	2	100.0	34.5	0.8	0	0	118.8	0.0	0.0	0	0
17	Kevin Byard III K. Byard III	66	173	1	1	100.0	66.0	0.4	1	0	158.3	100.0	0.0	0	0
18	Bill Stits B. Stits	62	92	2	3	66.7	20.7	0.7	1	1	109.7	33.3	33.3
19	Spec Sanders S. Sanders	58	12	2	3	66.7	19.3	4.8	0	0	109.7	0.0	0.0
20	Bobby Luna B. Luna	55	24	1	1	100.0	55.0	2.3	0	0	118.8	0.0	0.0
21	Frank Gifford F. Gifford	47	12	3	6	50.0	7.8	3.9	1	0	116.0	16.7	0.0
22	Tony Dungy T. Dungy	43	45	3	8	37.5	5.4	1.0	0	2	16.1	0.0	25.0	0	0
23	Jim Cason J. Cason	40	55	7	13	53.8	3.1	0.7	0	1	27.7	0.0	7.7
24	Larry Mallory L. Mallory	35	44	1	1	100.0	35.0	0.8	0	0	118.8	0.0	0.0	0	0
25	Bob Forte B. Forte	32	36	3	4	75.0	8.0	0.9	0	0	97.9	0.0	0.0

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Vikings	6	2	0	.750
Packers	6	3	0	.667
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