most yards thrown all-time number 3 pick

Matt Ryan has the most career passing yards by a #3 overall pick, with 62,792 yards.

	NAME	YDS	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%	SCK	SCKY
1	Matt Ryan M. Ryan	62,792	234	5,551	8,464	65.6	7.4	268.3	381	183	93.6	4.5	2.2	488	3,267
2	Jim Everett J. Everett	34,837	158	2,841	4,923	57.7	7.1	220.5	203	175	78.6	4.1	3.6	257	1,885
3	John Brodie J. Brodie	31,548	201	2,469	4,491	55.0	7.0	157.0	214	224	72.3	4.8	5.0	47	380
4	Steve McNair S. McNair	31,304	161	2,733	4,544	60.1	6.9	194.4	174	119	82.8	3.8	2.6	254	1,567
5	Bobby Layne B. Layne	26,768	175	1,814	3,700	49.0	7.2	153.0	196	243	63.4	5.3	6.6
6	Sam Darnold S. Darnold	20,431	100	1,766	2,833	62.3	7.2	204.3	123	82	86.5	4.3	2.9	224	1,493
7	Dan Pastorini D. Pastorini	18,515	140	1,556	3,055	50.9	6.1	132.3	103	161	59.1	3.4	5.3	246	2,229
8	Blake Bortles B. Bortles	17,649	78	1,562	2,634	59.3	6.7	226.3	103	75	80.6	3.9	2.8	195	1,158
9	Joey Harrington J. Harrington	14,693	81	1,424	2,538	56.1	5.8	181.4	79	85	69.4	3.1	3.3	124	770
10	Mike Phipps M. Phipps	10,506	119	886	1,799	49.2	5.8	88.3	55	108	52.6	3.1	6.0	172	1,514
11	Vince Young V. Young	8,964	60	755	1,304	57.9	6.9	149.4	46	51	74.4	3.5	3.9	83	449
12	Steve Spurrier S. Spurrier	6,878	106	597	1,151	51.9	6.0	64.9	40	60	60.1	3.5	5.2	82	634
13	Drake Maye D. Maye	6,670	30	579	830	69.8	8.0	222.3	46	18	103.1	5.5	2.2	81	430
14	Jack Thompson J. Thompson	5,315	51	449	845	53.1	6.3	104.2	33	45	63.4	3.9	5.3	85	695
15	Parker Hall P. Hall	4,013	42	329	721	45.6	5.6	95.5	30	67	38.5	4.2	9.3
16	Heath Shuler H. Shuler	3,691	29	292	593	49.2	6.2	127.3	15	33	54.3	2.5	5.6	46	291
17	Akili Smith A. Smith	2,212	22	215	461	46.6	4.8	100.5	5	13	52.8	1.1	2.8	59	327
18	Jack Scarbath J. Scarbath	1,868	29	101	279	36.2	6.7	64.4	18	30	42.1	6.5	10.8
19	Trey Lance T. Lance	1,289	17	108	200	54.0	6.4	75.8	5	5	71.9	2.5	2.5	16	91
20	Ray Buivid R. Buivid	500	17	34	83	41.0	6.0	29.4	11	4	80.8	13.3	4.8
21	Boyd Brumbaugh B. Brumbaugh	427	36	18	57	31.6	7.5	11.9	4	10	43.4	7.0	17.5
22	Kay Eakin K. Eakin	270	18	22	62	35.5	4.4	15.0	1	7	15.6	1.6	11.3
23	Chuck Muncie C. Muncie	126	110	4	7	57.1	18.0	1.1	4	0	141.4	57.1	0.0	0	0
24	Ollie Matson O. Matson	119	169	5	15	33.3	7.9	0.7	0	1	35.1	0.0	6.7
25	Charley Taylor C. Taylor	99	165	3	14	21.4	7.1	0.6	1	1	50.6	7.1	7.1	0	0

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