2024 season · Quarterbacks, 106+ attempts through Week 9, 39 qualifiers

Quarterback Intended Air Yards Leaders

Name: Quarterback Intended Air Yards — 2024 NFL Leaders
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Quarterback Intended Air Yards — 2024 NFL leaders, updated Nov 12, 2026. Joe Burrow (CIN) threw for the most intended air yards in the league at 4,614 across 39 qualifying players. Based on verified 2024 play-by-play data (nflverse); Half-PPR scoring. Through the 2024 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, 2024 NFL season
#	Player	IAY	IAY/Att	Att	Cmp	Yds	PACR	Read
1	Joe BurrowCIN	4,614	7.08	652	460	4,918	1.07	Read
2	Sam DarnoldMIN	4,606	8.45	545	361	4,319	0.94	Read
3	Caleb WilliamsCHI	4,486	7.98	562	351	3,541	0.79	Read
4	C.J. StroudHOU	4,424	8.32	532	336	3,727	0.84	Read
5	Justin HerbertLAC	4,335	8.60	504	332	3,870	0.89	Read
6	Bo NixDEN	4,116	7.26	567	376	3,775	0.92	Read
7	Lamar JacksonBAL	4,109	8.67	474	316	4,172	1.01	Read
8	Aaron RodgersNYJ	4,022	6.89	584	368	3,897	0.97	Read
9	Josh AllenBUF	4,022	8.33	483	307	3,731	0.93	Read
10	Geno SmithSEA	3,996	6.91	578	407	4,320	1.08	Read
11	Baker MayfieldTB	3,971	6.97	570	407	4,500	1.13	Read
12	Brock PurdySF	3,904	8.58	455	300	3,864	0.99	Read
13	Matthew StaffordLAR	3,869	7.48	517	340	3,762	0.97	Read
14	Jordan LoveGB	3,757	8.84	425	268	3,389	0.90	Read
15	Kyler MurrayARI	3,693	6.83	541	372	3,851	1.04	Read
16	Patrick MahomesKC	3,681	6.34	581	392	3,928	1.07	Read
17	Jayden DanielsWAS	3,548	7.39	480	331	3,568	1.01	Read
18	Jared GoffDET	3,406	6.32	539	390	4,629	1.36	Read
19	Kirk CousinsATL	3,374	7.45	453	303	3,508	1.04	Read
20	Bryce YoungCAR	3,358	8.74	384	234	2,403	0.72	Read
21	Anthony RichardsonIND	3,224	12.21	264	126	1,814	0.56
22	Jalen HurtsPHI	2,814	7.80	361	248	2,903	1.03	Read
23	Russell WilsonPIT	2,668	7.94	336	214	2,482	0.93
24	Trevor LawrenceJAX	2,658	9.36	284	172	2,045	0.77	Read
25	Jameis WinstonCLE	2,640	8.92	296	181	2,121	0.80
26	Will LevisTEN	2,621	8.71	301	190	2,091	0.80
27	Daniel JonesNYG	2,509	7.36	341	216	2,070	0.82	Read
28	Drake MayeNE	2,473	7.32	338	225	2,276	0.92	Read
29	Tua TagovailoaMIA	2,271	5.69	399	291	2,867	1.26	Read
30	Dak PrescottDAL	2,270	7.94	286	185	1,978	0.87	Read
31	Joe FlaccoIND	2,215	8.93	248	162	1,761	0.80
32	Derek CarrNO	2,178	7.81	279	189	2,145	0.98
33	Cooper RushDAL	2,137	6.94	308	187	1,844	0.86
34	Mac JonesJAX	1,928	7.36	262	171	1,672	0.87
35	Aidan O'ConnellLV	1,921	7.91	243	154	1,612	0.84
36	Gardner MinshewLV	1,847	6.04	306	203	2,013	1.09
37	Spencer RattlerNO	1,834	8.04	228	130	1,317	0.72
38	Mason RudolphTEN	1,630	7.15	228	146	1,530	0.94
39	Deshaun WatsonCLE	1,579	7.31	216	137	1,148	0.73	Read

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, 2024 NFL season
#	Player	IAY	IAY/Att	Att	Cmp	Yds	PACR
1	Lamar JacksonBAL	1,356	8.75	155	101	1,306	0.96
2	Jayden DanielsWAS	1,299	9.48	137	87	1,135	0.87
3	Justin HerbertLAC	1,263	9.02	140	88	1,112	0.88
4	Brock PurdySF	1,244	8.58	145	100	1,401	1.13
5	Bo NixDEN	1,227	7.18	171	100	1,115	0.91
6	Caleb WilliamsCHI	1,208	7.90	153	91	1,034	0.86
7	Jordan LoveGB	1,166	7.93	147	89	951	0.82
8	Bryce YoungCAR	1,145	9.23	124	73	800	0.70
9	Joe BurrowCIN	1,137	7.79	146	94	993	0.87
10	Baker MayfieldTB	1,115	6.80	164	117	1,316	1.18
11	Sam DarnoldMIN	1,096	9.37	117	73	1,080	0.98
12	Matthew StaffordLAR	1,075	7.96	135	91	1,208	1.12
13	Patrick MahomesKC	1,062	6.94	153	98	1,047	0.99
14	Anthony RichardsonIND	1,062	13.79	77	30	325	0.31
15	Kyler MurrayARI	988	7.16	138	87	866	0.88
16	Jared GoffDET	980	6.71	146	101	1,305	1.33
17	C.J. StroudHOU	972	7.36	132	80	901	0.93
18	Aaron RodgersNYJ	947	6.11	155	94	920	0.97
19	Josh AllenBUF	934	7.08	132	73	960	1.03
20	Geno SmithSEA	901	7.15	126	86	1,088	1.21
21	Jalen HurtsPHI	863	8.14	106	71	904	1.05
22	Derek CarrNO	848	9.98	85	54	725	0.85
23	Kirk CousinsATL	840	7.85	107	63	847	1.01
24	Russell WilsonPIT	741	8.82	84	57	832	1.12
25	Drake MayeNE	694	7.15	97	53	532	0.77
26	Will LevisTEN	678	10.27	66	43	588	0.87
27	Gardner MinshewLV	675	6.68	101	65	626	0.93
28	Daniel JonesNYG	613	7.05	87	51	500	0.82
29	Dak PrescottDAL	555	9.74	57	32	450	0.81
30	Spencer RattlerNO	555	10.47	53	30	368	0.66
31	Trevor LawrenceJAX	554	8.52	65	38	443	0.80
32	Jameis WinstonCLE	545	7.47	73	44	666	1.22
33	Joe FlaccoIND	529	10.58	50	26	368	0.70
34	Cooper RushDAL	501	6.96	72	44	604	1.21
35	Mac JonesJAX	501	8.35	60	33	356	0.71
36	Mason RudolphTEN	454	11.07	41	22	285	0.63
37	Deshaun WatsonCLE	436	6.32	69	40	300	0.69
38	Aidan O'ConnellLV	430	7.82	55	39	505	1.17
39	Tua TagovailoaMIA	417	5.42	77	54	500	1.20

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