1961 NFL Passing

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League Champion: Green Bay Packers

AP MVP: Paul Hornung

AP Rookie of the Year: Mike Ditka

Passing Leader: Sonny Jurgensen, 3723 Yds

Rushing Leader: Jim Brown, 1408 Yds

Receiving Leader: Tommy McDonald, 1144 Yds

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Passing Table
Rk	Player	Tm	Age	Pos	G	GS	QBrec	Cmp	Att	Cmp%	Yds	TD	TD%	Int	Int%	Lng	Y/A	AY/A	Y/C	Y/G	Rate	Sk	Yds	Sk%	NY/A	ANY/A	4QC	GWD
1	Sonny Jurgensen*+	PHI	27	QB	14	14	10-4-0	235	416	56.5	3723	32	7.7	24	5.8	69	8.9	7.9	15.8	265.9	88.1	28	211	6.3	7.91	6.92	3	3
2	Johnny Unitas*	BAL	28	QB	14	14	8-6-0	229	420	54.5	2990	16	3.8	24	5.7	72	7.1	5.3	13.1	213.6	66.1	28	204	6.3	6.22	4.52	3	4
3	John Brodie	SFO	26	QB	14	14	7-6-1	155	283	54.8	2588	14	4.9	12	4.2	70	9.1	8.2	16.7	184.9	84.7	19	141	6.3	8.10	7.24	2	2
4	Bart Starr*	GNB	27	QB	14	14	11-3-0	172	295	58.3	2418	16	5.4	16	5.4	78	8.2	6.8	14.1	172.7	80.3	15	138	4.8	7.35	6.06	3	3
5	Milt Plum*	CLE	26	QB	14	13	7-5-1	177	302	58.6	2416	18	6.0	10	3.3	77	8.0	7.7	13.6	172.6	90.3	17	145	5.3	7.12	6.84	2	2
6	Norm Snead	WAS	22	QB	14	14	1-12-1	172	375	45.9	2337	11	2.9	22	5.9	80	6.2	4.2	13.6	166.9	51.6	49	368	11.6	4.64	2.83	0	0
7	Y.A. Tittle*	NYG	35	QB	13	10	8-1-1	163	285	57.2	2272	17	6.0	12	4.2	62	8.0	7.3	13.9	174.8	85.3	15	161	5.0	7.04	6.37	1	1
8	Billy Wade	CHI	31	QB	13	9	5-4-0	139	250	55.6	2258	22	8.8	13	5.2	98	9.0	8.5	16.2	173.7	93.7	29	251	10.4	7.19	6.67	3	3
9	Fran Tarkenton	MIN	21	QB	14	10	2-8-0	157	280	56.1	1997	18	6.4	17	6.1	71	7.1	5.7	12.7	142.6	74.7	42	416	13.0	4.91	3.65
10	Jim Ninowski	DET	25	QB	13	8	4-3-1	117	247	47.4	1921	7	2.8	18	7.3	84	7.8	5.1	16.4	147.8	53.0	21	212	7.8	6.38	3.88	0	0
11	Eddie LeBaron	DAL	31	QB	14	10	2-8-0	120	236	50.8	1741	14	5.9	16	6.8	80	7.4	5.5	14.5	124.4	66.7	13	103	5.2	6.58	4.81	3	2
12	Zeke Bratkowski	RAM	30	QB	13	11	2-9-0	124	230	53.9	1547	8	3.5	13	5.7	84	6.7	4.9	12.5	119.0	63.1	16	168	6.5	5.61	3.88	1	1
13	Sam Etcheverry	STL	31	QB	14	9	4-5-0	96	196	49.0	1275	14	7.1	11	5.6	78	6.5	5.4	13.3	91.1	70.4	39	300	16.6	4.15	3.23	2	3
14	Rudy Bukich	PIT	31	QB	11	8	4-4-0	89	156	57.1	1253	11	7.1	16	10.3	88	8.0	4.8	14.1	113.9	67.0	20	193	11.4	6.02	3.18	1	1
15	Bobby Layne	PIT	35	QB	8	6	2-4-0	75	149	50.3	1205	11	7.4	16	10.7	53	8.1	4.7	16.1	150.6	62.8	12	89	7.5	6.93	3.83
16	Don Meredith	DAL	23	QB	8	4	2-1-1	94	182	51.6	1161	9	4.9	11	6.0	56	6.4	4.6	12.4	145.1	63.0	18	154	9.0	5.04	3.46
17	Frank Ryan	RAM	25	QB	14	3	2-1-0	72	142	50.7	1115	5	3.5	7	4.9	96	7.9	6.3	15.5	79.6	68.3	25	204	15.0	5.46	4.17	0	2
18	Ralph Guglielmi	STL	28	QB	9	5	3-2-0	56	116	48.3	927	5	4.3	8	6.9	80	8.0	5.8	16.6	103.0	61.2	20	151	14.7	5.71	3.79
19	Earl Morrall	DET	27	QB	13	6	4-2-0	69	150	46.0	909	7	4.7	9	6.0	61	6.1	4.3	13.2	69.9	56.2	10	74	6.3	5.22	3.56	2	2
20	Ed Brown	CHI	33	QB	14	5	3-2-0	46	98	46.9	742	4	4.1	11	11.2	84	7.6	3.3	16.1	53.0	46.8	9	88	8.4	6.11	2.23	1	2
21	Charlie Conerly	NYG	40	QB	13	4	2-2-0	44	106	41.5	634	7	6.6	8	7.5	37	6.0	3.9	14.4	48.8	52.2	19	134	15.2	4.00	2.24	1	1
22	George Shaw	MIN	28	QB	8	4	1-3-0	46	91	50.5	530	4	4.4	4	4.4	42	5.8	4.7	11.5	66.3	64.8	13	122	12.5	3.92	2.96
23	Billy Kilmer	SFO	22	QB	11	0		19	34	55.9	286	0	0.0	4	11.8	28	8.4	3.1	15.1	26.0	44.1	8	71	19.0	5.12	0.83
24	George Izo	WAS	24	QB	5	0		16	40	40.0	214	1	2.5	6	15.0	33	5.4	-0.9	13.4	42.8	26.5	4	24	9.1	4.32	-1.36
25	Bob Waters	SFO	23	QB	8	0		13	28	46.4	183	1	3.6	2	7.1	26	6.5	4.0	14.1	22.9	50.1	5	41	15.2	4.30	2.18	0	0
26	King Hill	PHI	25	QB	14	0		6	12	50.0	101	2	16.7	2	16.7	23	8.4	4.3	16.8	7.2	78.8	1	8	7.7	7.15	3.31
27	Prentice Gautt	STL	23	LHB	14	13		6	11	54.5	100	1	9.1	1	9.1	22	9.1	6.8	16.7	7.1	77.8
28	Lee Grosscup	NYG	25	QB	4	0		5	22	22.7	87	1	4.5	3	13.6	32	4.0	-1.3	17.4	21.8	19.1
29	Len Dawson	CLE	26	QB	7	1	1-0-0	7	15	46.7	85	1	6.7	3	20.0	17	5.7	-2.0	12.1	12.1	47.2	3	19	16.7	3.67	-2.72
Rk	Player	Tm	Age	Pos	G	GS	QBrec	Cmp	Att	Cmp%	Yds	TD	TD%	Int	Int%	Lng	Y/A	AY/A	Y/C	Y/G	Rate	Sk	Yds	Sk%	NY/A	ANY/A	4QC	GWD
30	Terry Nofsinger	PIT	23	QB	5	0		7	11	63.6	78	0	0.0	0	0.0	23	7.1	7.1	11.1	15.6	84.7	1	8	8.3	5.83	5.83
31	John David Crow	STL	26	LHB	8	7		4	14	28.6	76	1	7.1	1	7.1	32	5.4	3.6	19.0	9.5	43.7
32	Tom Tracy	PIT	27	HB	14	14		4	12	33.3	73	0	0.0	0	0.0	38	6.1	6.1	18.3	5.2	55.2
33	Charley Johnson	STL	23	QB	4	0		5	13	38.5	51	0	0.0	2	15.4	16	3.9	-3.0	10.2	12.8	10.9	1	10	7.1	2.93	-3.50
34	Jon Arnett*	RAM	26	LHB	14	14		3	13	23.1	47	0	0.0	1	7.7	20	3.6	0.2	15.7	3.4	10.1
35	Bob Gaiters	NYG	23	LHB	14	9		3	3	100.0	42	2	66.7	0	0.0	27	14.0	27.3	14.0	3.0	158.3
36	Paul Hornung+	GNB	26	HB	12	11		3	5	60.0	42	1	20.0	0	0.0	20	8.4	12.4	14.0	3.5	126.7
37	Tom Moore	GNB	23	HB	13	2		2	2	100.0	42	1	50.0	0	0.0	22	21.0	31.0	21.0	3.2	158.3
38	Jim Brown*+	CLE	25	FB	14	14		1	3	33.3	37	1	33.3	0	0.0	37	12.3	19.0	37.0	2.6	120.8
39	Lamar McHan	BAL	29	QB	7	0		3	15	20.0	28	1	6.7	4	26.7	17	1.9	-8.8	9.3	4.0	22.2	2	11	11.8	1.00	-8.41
40	Buddy Humphrey	DAL	26	QB	2	0		1	2	50.0	16	0	0.0	0	0.0	16	8.0	8.0	16.0	8.0	77.1
41	Dick James*	WAS	27	RHB/LHB	14	11		1	4	25.0	15	0	0.0	0	0.0	15	3.8	3.8	15.0	1.1	42.7
42	Dick Hoak	PIT	22	FL	14	7		1	3	33.3	13	1	33.3	1	33.3	13	4.3	-4.0	13.0	0.9	47.9
43	John Adams	CHI	24	FB	13	2		1	1	100.0	11	0	0.0	0	0.0	11	11.0	11.0	11.0	0.8	112.5
44	Bobby Joe Conrad	STL	26	RHB	14	13		1	1	100.0	5	0	0.0	0	0.0	5	5.0	5.0	5.0	0.4	87.5
45	John Aveni	WAS	26	K	14	0		0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0		0.0	39.6
46	Bobby Boyd	BAL	24	LCB	14	14		0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0		0.0	39.6
47	Jamie Caleb	MIN	25	HB	10	0		0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0		0.0	39.6
48	Howard Cassady	DET	27	HB	14	1		0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0		0.0	39.6
49	Bobby Joe Green	PIT	25	P	14	0		0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0		0.0	39.6
50	John Henry Johnson	PIT	32	FB	14	13		0	2	0.0	0	0	0.0	1	50.0	0	0.0	-22.5		0.0	0.0
51	J.W. Lockett	2TM	24	FB	14	9		0	2	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0		0.0	39.6
52	Tommy Mason	MIN	22	LHB	13	4		0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0		0.0	39.6
53	Hugh McElhenny*	MIN	33	LHB/RHB	13	13		0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0		0.0	39.6
54	Lenny Moore*+	BAL	28	RHB	13	13		0	2	0.0	0	0	0.0	1	50.0	0	0.0	-22.5		0.0	0.0
55	Clarence Peaks	PHI	26	FB	13	11		0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0		0.0	39.6
56	Jerry Reichow*	MIN	27	RHB	14	9		0	3	0.0	0	0	0.0	1	33.3	0	0.0	-15.0		0.0	0.0
57	John Roach	GNB	28	QB	7	0		0	4	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0		0.0	39.6
58	J.D. Smith	SFO	29	LHB/FB	14	14		0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	1	100.0	0	0.0	-45.0		0.0	0.0
59	Danny Villanueva	RAM	24	K	14	0		0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0		0.0	39.6

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