1966 NFL Passing

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League Champion: Green Bay Packers

AP MVP: Bart Starr

AP Rookie of the Year: Johnny Roland

Passing Leader: Sonny Jurgensen, 3209 Yds

Rushing Leader: Gale Sayers, 1231 Yds

Receiving Leader: Pat Studstill, 1266 Yds

Passing

* Selected to Pro Bowl, + First-Team All-Pro

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*	WAS	32	QB	14	14	7-7-0	254	436	58.3	3209	28	6.4	19	4.4	86	7.4	6.7	12.6	229.2	84.5	26	210	5.6	6.49	5.85	2	3
2	Frank Ryan*	CLE	30	QB	14	14	9-5-0	200	382	52.4	2974	29	7.6	14	3.7	54	7.8	7.7	14.9	212.4	88.2	28	223	6.8	6.71	6.59	1	1
3	John Brodie	SFO	31	QB	14	13	5-6-2	232	427	54.3	2810	16	3.7	22	5.2	65	6.6	5.0	12.1	200.7	65.8	20	165	4.5	5.92	4.42	2	1
4	Don Meredith*	DAL	28	QB	13	13	9-3-1	177	344	51.5	2805	24	7.0	12	3.5	95	8.2	8.0	15.8	215.8	87.7	37	261	9.7	6.68	6.52	3	2
5	Johnny Unitas*	BAL	33	QB	14	13	9-4-0	195	348	56.0	2748	22	6.3	24	6.9	89	7.9	6.1	14.1	196.3	74.0	21	146	5.7	7.05	5.32	1	1
6	Fran Tarkenton	MIN	26	QB	14	12	4-7-1	192	358	53.6	2561	17	4.7	16	4.5	68	7.2	6.1	13.3	182.9	73.8	37	322	9.4	5.67	4.71	2	1
7	Roman Gabriel	RAM	26	QB	14	14	8-6-0	217	397	54.7	2540	10	2.5	16	4.0	84	6.4	5.1	11.7	181.4	65.9	48	319	10.8	4.99	3.82
8	Bart Starr*+	GNB	32	QB	14	13	11-2-0	156	251	62.2	2257	14	5.6	3	1.2	83	9.0	9.6	14.5	161.2	105.0	26	183	9.4	7.49	8.01	1	1
9	Rudy Bukich	CHI	36	QB	14	14	5-7-2	147	309	47.6	1858	10	3.2	21	6.8	80	6.0	3.6	12.6	132.7	49.3	26	211	7.8	4.92	2.69	2	1
10	Karl Sweetan	DET	24	QB	10	8	2-5-1	157	309	50.8	1809	4	1.3	14	4.5	99	5.9	4.1	11.5	180.9	54.3	24	225	7.2	4.76	3.11	1	0
11	Randy Johnson	ATL	22	QB	14	11	3-8-0	129	295	43.7	1795	12	4.1	21	7.1	53	6.1	3.7	13.9	128.2	47.8	26	236	8.1	4.86	2.66
12	Charley Johnson	STL	28	QB	9	9	7-1-1	103	205	50.2	1334	10	4.9	11	5.4	69	6.5	5.1	13.0	148.2	65.0	18	170	8.1	5.22	3.90	4	4
13	Norm Snead	PHI	27	QB	10	10	5-5-0	103	226	45.6	1275	8	3.5	11	4.9	48	5.6	4.2	12.4	127.5	55.1	25	190	10.0	4.32	2.99	0	1
14	Ron Smith	PIT	24	QB	9	8	2-5-0	79	181	43.6	1249	8	4.4	12	6.6	84	6.9	4.8	15.8	138.8	54.3	42	326	18.8	4.14	2.43	0	1
15	Gary Wood	NYG	24	QB	14	6	0-6-0	81	170	47.6	1142	6	3.5	13	7.6	58	6.7	4.0	14.1	81.6	49.7	24	222	12.4	4.74	2.35
16	Bill Nelsen	PIT	25	QB	5	5	3-1-1	63	112	56.3	1122	7	6.3	1	0.9	68	10.0	10.9	17.8	224.4	107.8	15	141	11.8	7.72	8.47	1	0
17	Earl Morrall	NYG	32	QB	7	7	1-5-1	71	151	47.0	1105	7	4.6	12	7.9	98	7.3	4.7	15.6	157.9	54.1	18	152	10.7	5.64	3.27	1	1
18	Milt Plum	DET	31	QB	6	6	2-4-0	82	146	56.2	943	4	2.7	13	8.9	63	6.5	3.0	11.5	157.2	47.8	11	103	7.0	5.35	2.13
19	Terry Nofsinger	STL	28	QB	7	5	1-4-0	68	162	42.0	799	2	1.2	8	4.9	49	4.9	3.0	11.8	114.1	41.2	17	153	9.5	3.61	1.82
20	Tom Kennedy	NYG	28	QB	6	1	0-1-0	55	100	55.0	748	7	7.0	6	6.0	82	7.5	6.2	13.6	124.7	77.4	20	150	16.7	4.98	3.90
21	King Hill	PHI	30	QB	10	2	2-0-0	53	97	54.6	571	5	5.2	7	7.2	30	5.9	3.7	10.8	57.1	59.3	6	42	5.8	5.14	3.05	2	2
22	Zeke Bratkowski	GNB	35	QB	8	1	1-0-0	36	64	56.3	569	4	6.3	2	3.1	74	8.9	8.7	15.8	71.1	93.8	5	46	7.2	7.58	7.43	1	1
23	Dennis Claridge	ATL	25	QB	7	3	0-3-0	40	70	57.1	471	2	2.9	2	2.9	62	6.7	6.0	11.8	67.3	75.4	9	77	11.4	4.99	4.35
24	Gary Cuozzo	BAL	25	QB	7	1	0-1-0	26	50	52.0	424	4	8.0	2	4.0	69	8.5	8.3	16.3	60.6	90.7	8	82	13.8	5.90	5.72
25	George Izo	PIT	29	QB	4	1	0-2-0	35	81	43.2	360	2	2.5	8	9.9	37	4.4	0.5	10.3	90.0	25.3	4	26	4.7	3.93	0.16
26	George Mira	SFO	24	QB	14	1	1-0-0	22	53	41.5	284	5	9.4	2	3.8	29	5.4	5.5	12.9	20.3	74.7	8	70	13.1	3.51	3.67
27	Bill Munson	RAM	25	QB	5	0		30	50	60.0	284	2	4.0	1	2.0	25	5.7	5.6	9.5	56.8	80.7	6	32	10.7	4.50	4.41
28	Jack Concannon	PHI	23	QB	11	2	2-0-0	21	51	41.2	262	1	2.0	4	7.8	44	5.1	2.0	12.5	23.8	31.7	3	22	5.6	4.44	1.48
29	Jerry Rhome	DAL	24	QB	7	1	1-0-0	21	36	58.3	253	0	0.0	1	2.8	47	7.0	5.8	12.0	36.1	68.4	4	39	10.0	5.35	4.23
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	Craig Morton	DAL	23	QB	6	0		13	27	48.1	225	3	11.1	1	3.7	41	8.3	8.9	17.3	37.5	98.5	1	8	3.6	7.75	8.29	0	1
31	Bob Berry	MIN	24	QB	3	1	0-1-0	13	37	35.1	215	1	2.7	5	13.5	52	5.8	0.3	16.5	71.7	25.0	7	53	15.9	3.68	-0.98
32	Jim Ninowski	CLE	30	QB	14	0		11	18	61.1	175	4	22.2	1	5.6	44	9.7	11.7	15.9	12.5	110.0	1	14	5.3	8.47	10.32
33	Ron Vander Kelen	MIN	27	QB	3	1	0-1-0	10	20	50.0	147	0	0.0	1	5.0	43	7.4	5.1	14.7	49.0	53.5	1	9	4.8	6.57	4.43
34	Johnny Roland*	STL	23	HB	14	13		5	8	62.5	130	1	12.5	0	0.0	45	16.3	18.8	26.0	9.3	145.8	1	8	11.1	13.56	15.78
35	Steve Sloan	ATL	22	QB	3	0		6	13	46.2	96	0	0.0	2	15.4	32	7.4	0.5	16.0	32.0	31.7	3	32	18.8	4.00	-1.63
36	Dick Hoak	PIT	27	HB	13	10		4	6	66.7	87	1	16.7	0	0.0	42	14.5	17.8	21.8	6.7	149.3	1	7	14.3	11.43	14.29
37	Billy Kilmer	SFO	27	QB	6	0		5	16	31.3	84	0	0.0	1	6.3	26	5.3	2.4	16.8	14.0	24.0	2	12	11.1	4.00	1.50
38	Billy Wade	CHI	36	QB	2	0		9	21	42.9	79	0	0.0	1	4.8	14	3.8	1.6	8.8	39.5	33.6	0	0	0.0	3.76	1.62
39	John David Crow	SFO	31	HB	14	14		2	4	50.0	61	0	0.0	1	25.0	46	15.3	4.0	30.5	4.4	56.2	0	0	0.0	15.25	4.00
40	Ron Meyer	PIT	22	QB	4	0		7	19	36.8	59	0	0.0	1	5.3	19	3.1	0.7	8.4	14.8	23.8	4	23	17.4	1.57	-0.39
41	Gale Sayers*+	CHI	23	HB	14	13		2	6	33.3	58	0	0.0	1	16.7	39	9.7	2.2	29.0	4.1	30.6	0	0	0.0	9.67	2.17
42	Izzy Lang	PHI	24	FB	14	4		2	3	66.7	51	0	0.0	0	0.0	36	17.0	17.0	25.5	3.6	109.7	0	0	0.0	17.00	17.00
43	Dan Reeves	DAL	22	HB	14	14		3	6	50.0	48	0	0.0	0	0.0	29	8.0	8.0	16.0	3.4	77.1	0	0	0.0	8.00	8.00
44	Jon Kilgore	RAM	23	P	14	0		1	1	100.0	47	0	0.0	0	0.0	47	47.0	47.0	47.0	3.4	118.7	0	0	0.0	47.00	47.00
45	Jim Hart	STL	22	QB	1	0		4	11	36.4	29	0	0.0	0	0.0	15	2.6	2.6	7.3	29.0	44.9	2	21	15.4	0.62	0.62
46	Ronnie Bull	CHI	26	FB	14	10		1	1	100.0	21	0	0.0	0	0.0	21	21.0	21.0	21.0	1.5	118.7	0	0	0.0	21.00	21.00
47	Bobby Mitchell	WAS	31	FL	14	13		1	1	100.0	21	0	0.0	0	0.0	21	21.0	21.0	21.0	1.5	118.7	0	0	0.0	21.00	21.00
48	Tom Moore	RAM	28	HB	14	14		1	1	100.0	20	0	0.0	0	0.0	20	20.0	20.0	20.0	1.4	118.7	0	0	0.0	20.00	20.00
49	Phil King	MIN	30	FB	14	0		1	1	100.0	9	0	0.0	0	0.0	9	9.0	9.0	9.0	0.6	104.2	0	0	0.0	9.00	9.00
50	Paul Hornung	GNB	31	HB	9	6		1	1	100.0	5	0	0.0	0	0.0	5	5.0	5.0	5.0	0.6	87.5	0	0	0.0	5.00	5.00
51	Dan Lewis	NYG	30	HB	13	2		1	1	100.0	4	0	0.0	0	0.0	4	4.0	4.0	4.0	0.3	83.3	0	0	0.0	4.00	4.00
52	Jon Arnett	CHI	31	HB	14	1		0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0		0.0	39.6	0	0	0.0	0.00	0.00
53	Willie Asbury	PIT	23	FB	14	12		0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0		0.0	39.6	0	0	0.0	0.00	0.00
54	Tom Barrington	WAS	22	RB	6	0		0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0		0.0	39.6	0	0	0.0	0.00	0.00
55	Bill Brown	MIN	28	FB	14	14		0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0		0.0	39.6	0	0	0.0	0.00	0.00
56	Amos Bullocks	PIT	27	HB	8	2		0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0		0.0	39.6	0	0	0.0	0.00	0.00
57	Perry Lee Dunn	ATL	25	RB	14	0		0	2	0.0	0	0	0.0	2	100.0	0	0.0	-45.0		0.0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0.00	-45.00
58	Earl Gros	PHI	26	FB	14	6		0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0		0.0	39.6	1	5	50.0	-2.50	-2.50
59	Leroy Kelly*+	CLE	24	HB	14	14		0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0		0.0	39.6	0	0	0.0	0.00	0.00
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
60	Ernie Koy	NYG	24	HB	13	7		0	2	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0		0.0	39.6	0	0	0.0	0.00	0.00
61	Billy Lothridge	ATL	24	P	14	0		0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0		0.0	39.6	0	0	0.0	0.00	0.00
62	Tom Matte	BAL	27	HB	14	4		0	3	0.0	0	0	0.0	1	33.3	0	0.0	-15.0		0.0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0.00	-15.00
63	Eddie Meador*	RAM	29	FS	14	14		0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0		0.0	39.6	0	0	0.0	0.00	0.00
64	Tom Myers	DET	23	QB	1	0		0	1	0.0	0	0	0.0	1	100.0	0	0.0	-45.0		0.0	0.0	0	0	0.0	0.00	-45.00
65	Elijah Pitts	GNB	28	HB	14	8		0	2	0.0	0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0	0.0	0.0		0.0	39.6	0	0	0.0	0.00	0.00
66	Dick Shiner	WAS	24	QB	14	0		0	5	0.0	0	0	0.0	1	20.0	0	0.0	-9.0		0.0	0.0	1	6	16.7	-1.00	-8.50
67	Lou Groza	CLE	42	K	14	0		1	1	100.0	-7	0	0.0	0	0.0	-7	-7.0	-7.0	-7.0	-0.5	79.2	0	0	0.0	-7.00	-7.00

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