2023 season · Quarterbacks, 106+ attempts through Week 9, 35 qualifiers

Quarterback Intended Air Yards Leaders

Name: Quarterback Intended Air Yards — 2023 NFL Leaders
Creator: Muffed
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Quarterback Intended Air Yards — 2023 NFL leaders, updated Nov 12, 2026. Josh Allen (BUF) threw for the most intended air yards in the league at 5,022 across 35 qualifying players. Based on verified 2023 play-by-play data (nflverse); Half-PPR scoring. Through the 2023 season.

Intended air yards add up the distance each pass travelled past the line of scrimmage, whether it was caught, dropped or thrown away. Because the receiver is left out of it entirely, the total is a record of what a quarterback and his coordinator tried to do rather than what came of it: two passers can finish within a hundred yards of each other and be a thousand apart here, and the gap is the offense's appetite for throwing downfield. Read the per-attempt figure next to the total — the total rewards volume, the rate does not.

Quarterback Intended Air Yards, 2023 NFL season
#	Player	IAY	IAY/Att	Att	Cmp	Yds	PACR	Read
1	Josh AllenBUF	5,022	8.67	579	385	4,306	0.86	Read
2	Jordan LoveGB	4,897	8.46	579	372	4,159	0.85	Read
3	Baker MayfieldTB	4,844	8.56	566	364	4,044	0.83	Read
4	Jalen HurtsPHI	4,638	8.62	538	352	3,858	0.83	Read
5	Trevor LawrenceJAX	4,613	8.18	564	370	4,016	0.87	Read
6	Sam HowellWAS	4,588	7.50	612	388	3,946	0.86
7	Dak PrescottDAL	4,579	7.76	590	410	4,516	0.99	Read
8	C.J. StroudHOU	4,481	8.98	499	319	4,108	0.92	Read
9	Tua TagovailoaMIA	4,283	7.65	560	388	4,624	1.08	Read
10	Derek CarrNO	4,280	7.81	548	375	3,878	0.91
11	Jared GoffDET	4,064	6.72	605	407	4,575	1.13	Read
12	Matthew StaffordLAR	4,033	7.74	521	326	3,965	0.98	Read
13	Bryce YoungCAR	4,009	7.61	527	315	2,877	0.72	Read
14	Patrick MahomesKC	3,873	6.49	597	401	4,183	1.08	Read
15	Lamar JacksonBAL	3,840	8.40	457	307	3,678	0.96	Read
16	Brock PurdySF	3,636	8.19	444	308	4,280	1.18	Read
17	Gardner MinshewIND	3,579	7.30	490	305	3,305	0.92
18	Geno SmithSEA	3,500	7.01	499	323	3,624	1.03	Read
19	Justin HerbertLAC	3,490	7.65	456	297	3,134	0.90	Read
20	Joshua DobbsMIN	3,320	7.96	417	262	2,464	0.74
21	Russell WilsonDEN	3,189	7.13	447	297	3,070	0.96
22	Desmond RidderATL	3,184	8.21	388	249	2,836	0.89
23	Justin FieldsCHI	2,961	8.00	370	227	2,562	0.86
24	Will LevisTEN	2,688	10.54	255	149	1,808	0.67
25	Zach WilsonNYJ	2,672	7.26	368	221	2,271	0.85
26	Aidan O'ConnellLV	2,561	7.47	343	213	2,218	0.87
27	Mac JonesNE	2,410	6.99	345	224	2,120	0.88
28	Joe BurrowCIN	2,347	6.43	365	244	2,309	0.98	Read
29	Kenny PickettPIT	2,288	7.06	324	201	2,070	0.91
30	Kirk CousinsMIN	2,252	7.24	311	216	2,331	1.03	Read
31	Kyler MurrayARI	1,935	7.22	268	176	1,799	0.93	Read
32	Joe FlaccoCLE	1,910	9.36	204	123	1,616	0.85
33	Ryan TannehillTEN	1,816	7.90	230	149	1,616	0.89
34	Bailey ZappeNE	1,686	7.95	212	127	1,272	0.75
35	Jake BrowningCIN	1,554	6.40	243	171	1,936	1.25

Against five or more pass rushers only. Players on this board with 20 or more blitzed attempts, ranked the same way.

Quarterback Intended Air Yards vs the blitz, 2023 NFL season
#	Player	IAY	IAY/Att	Att	Cmp	Yds	PACR
1	Jalen HurtsPHI	1,463	8.56	171	106	1,211	0.83
2	Josh AllenBUF	1,267	9.32	136	76	918	0.72
3	Jordan LoveGB	1,260	7.04	179	116	1,235	0.98
4	Derek CarrNO	1,203	8.47	142	96	1,132	0.94
5	Gardner MinshewIND	1,196	7.16	167	98	1,032	0.86
6	Justin HerbertLAC	1,193	8.23	145	98	1,113	0.93
7	Lamar JacksonBAL	1,147	7.55	152	99	1,307	1.14
8	Sam HowellWAS	1,138	7.54	151	96	948	0.83
9	Bryce YoungCAR	1,129	8.49	133	68	702	0.62
10	Jared GoffDET	1,111	5.94	187	125	1,368	1.23
11	Dak PrescottDAL	1,087	7.10	153	106	1,291	1.19
12	Matthew StaffordLAR	1,058	7.15	148	83	1,005	0.95
13	C.J. StroudHOU	1,057	9.03	117	74	983	0.93
14	Brock PurdySF	1,013	8.30	122	82	1,258	1.24
15	Trevor LawrenceJAX	1,011	9.82	103	58	702	0.69
16	Baker MayfieldTB	972	9.08	107	63	710	0.73
17	Desmond RidderATL	889	8.31	107	69	909	1.02
18	Kirk CousinsMIN	878	8.21	107	72	888	1.01
19	Geno SmithSEA	841	6.42	131	78	851	1.01
20	Justin FieldsCHI	810	7.43	109	65	787	0.97
21	Tua TagovailoaMIA	727	6.67	109	73	902	1.24
22	Russell WilsonDEN	724	6.24	116	75	815	1.13
23	Kenny PickettPIT	701	8.99	78	41	579	0.83
24	Zach WilsonNYJ	690	7.19	96	55	626	0.91
25	Patrick MahomesKC	681	5.97	114	77	754	1.11
26	Aidan O'ConnellLV	671	7.22	93	57	599	0.89
27	Joe BurrowCIN	610	8.59	71	46	506	0.83
28	Joshua DobbsMIN	530	6.62	80	52	443	0.84
29	Will LevisTEN	487	9.37	52	26	250	0.51
30	Mac JonesNE	443	5.83	76	49	448	1.01
31	Ryan TannehillTEN	426	8.19	52	34	411	0.96
32	Bailey ZappeNE	395	8.59	46	27	251	0.64
33	Joe FlaccoCLE	369	7.53	49	30	390	1.06
34	Kyler MurrayARI	338	8.24	41	26	396	1.17
35	Jake BrowningCIN	310	5.64	55	38	470	1.52

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