Most Career Passing Yards in NFL History

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Most Career Passing Yards in NFL History

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Tom Brady leads in Career NFL Passing Yards with 89,214.

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Average Career NFL Passing Yards: 69,908 · median: 67,963.

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Gap: Tom Brady is 1.6× larger than Eli Manning.

About This Dataset

Most Career Passing Yards in NFL History

NFL quarterbacks ranked by total career passing yards in regular season play according to official NFL records. Tom Brady's record of 89,214 career passing yards is the most in NFL history — accumulated across 23 seasons with the New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, during which he also set records for touchdown passes, Super Bowl wins, and Super Bowl MVP awards, establishing himself as the consensus greatest quarterback in the history of the sport.

Analysis

Tom Brady (89,214), Drew Brees (80,358) and Peyton Manning (71,940) take the top three in Career NFL Passing Yards. Values run from 89,214 at the top to 57,023 at the bottom in Career NFL Passing Yards, a spread of 32,191. First and second are separated by 8,856, so the leader sits inside the field rather than apart from it. Below the top two the field is tightly packed: the remaining 6 run from 71,940 down to 57,023 Career NFL Passing Yards.

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8 categories · 1 year

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89,214

Tom Brady

Career NFL Passing Yards · All Time

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Career NFL Passing Yards

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Methodology & source

Data source: Wikipedia
Coverage: 8 entities · 8 observations
Measure: Career NFL Passing Yards
Last updated: 6 September 2026
Compiled by: The ANYSTAT team, from the source above

How the figures are calculated

Values use the measure and unit named on this page. Consult the dataset description and cited source for coverage, definitions and any unit conversions. Displayed values may be rounded for readability.
Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.

Rankings & Full Data

8 records · Career NFL Passing Yards · ranked by All Time

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#	Category	All Time
🥇	Tom Brady	89,214
🥈	Drew Brees	80,358
🥉	Peyton Manning	71,940
4	Brett Favre	71,838
5	Ben Roethlisberger	64,088
6	Philip Rivers	63,440
7	Dan Marino	61,361
8	Eli Manning	57,023

Data Sources & References

All external sources cited in this dataset

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Brady Visit ↗

2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Brees Visit ↗

3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyton_Manning Visit ↗

4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Favre Visit ↗

5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Rivers Visit ↗

6 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Marino Visit ↗

7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Roethlisberger Visit ↗

8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Manning Visit ↗

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