2025 season · Quarterbacks, 95+ attempts through Week 8, 36 qualifiers

Quarterback Intended Air Yards Leaders

Name: Quarterback Intended Air Yards — 2025 NFL Leaders
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Quarterback Intended Air Yards — 2025 NFL leaders, updated Oct 31, 2026. Matthew Stafford (LAR) threw for the most intended air yards in the league at 5,528 across 36 qualifying players. Based on verified 2025 play-by-play data (nflverse); Half-PPR scoring. Through the 2025 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, 2025 NFL season
#	Player	IAY	IAY/Att	Att	Cmp	Yds	PACR	Read
1	Matthew StaffordLAR	5,528	9.26	597	388	4,707	0.85	Read
2	Caleb WilliamsCHI	4,899	8.62	568	330	3,942	0.81	Read
3	Trevor LawrenceJAX	4,876	8.71	560	341	4,007	0.82	Read
4	Dak PrescottDAL	4,809	8.02	600	404	4,552	0.95	Read
5	Drake MayeNE	4,493	9.13	492	354	4,394	0.98	Read
6	Bo NixDEN	4,486	7.33	612	388	3,931	0.88	Read
7	Baker MayfieldTB	4,406	8.11	543	343	3,693	0.84	Read
8	Jalen HurtsPHI	4,072	8.97	454	294	3,224	0.79	Read
9	Patrick MahomesKC	4,050	8.07	502	315	3,587	0.89	Read
10	Justin HerbertLAC	4,011	7.83	512	340	3,727	0.93	Read
11	Cam WardTEN	3,905	7.23	540	323	3,169	0.81	Read
12	Jordan LoveGB	3,871	8.82	439	291	3,381	0.87	Read
13	Sam DarnoldSEA	3,751	7.86	477	323	4,048	1.08	Read
14	Jared GoffDET	3,715	6.43	578	393	4,564	1.23	Read
15	Jacoby BrissettARI	3,697	7.62	485	315	3,366	0.91	Read
16	C.J. StroudHOU	3,405	8.05	423	273	3,041	0.89	Read
17	Josh AllenBUF	3,359	7.30	460	319	3,668	1.09	Read
18	Bryce YoungCAR	3,102	6.49	478	304	3,011	0.97	Read
19	Daniel JonesIND	3,073	8.00	384	261	3,101	1.01	Read
20	Joe FlaccoCIN	3,047	7.32	416	251	2,479	0.81
21	Aaron RodgersPIT	3,008	6.04	498	327	3,322	1.10	Read
22	Jaxson DartNYG	2,773	8.18	339	216	2,272	0.82	Read
23	Geno SmithLV	2,762	6.17	448	302	3,025	1.09	Read
24	Tyler ShoughNO	2,708	8.28	327	221	2,384	0.88	Read
25	Lamar JacksonBAL	2,648	8.77	302	192	2,549	0.96	Read
26	Tua TagovailoaMIA	2,613	6.80	384	260	2,660	1.02	Read
27	Michael Penix Jr.ATL	2,300	8.33	276	166	1,982	0.86	Read
28	Marcus MariotaWAS	2,295	10.11	227	139	1,695	0.74
29	Brock PurdySF	2,158	7.60	284	197	2,167	1.00	Read
30	J.J. McCarthyMIN	2,142	8.81	243	140	1,632	0.76
31	Mac JonesSF	2,124	7.35	289	201	2,151	1.01
32	Spencer RattlerNO	2,030	7.90	257	174	1,586	0.78
33	Kirk CousinsATL	1,870	6.95	269	166	1,721	0.92	Read
34	Joe BurrowCIN	1,868	7.21	259	173	1,809	0.97	Read
35	Shedeur SandersCLE	1,525	7.19	212	120	1,400	0.92	Read
36	Justin FieldsNYJ	1,379	6.76	204	128	1,259	0.91

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, 2025 NFL season
#	Player	IAY	IAY/Att	Att	Cmp	Yds	PACR
1	Caleb WilliamsCHI	1,645	9.68	170	88	1,294	0.79
2	Matthew StaffordLAR	1,401	7.96	176	113	1,313	0.94
3	Trevor LawrenceJAX	1,365	9.29	147	92	1,230	0.90
4	Jalen HurtsPHI	1,314	8.94	147	93	1,131	0.86
5	Sam DarnoldSEA	1,274	8.44	151	92	1,304	1.02
6	Baker MayfieldTB	1,231	8.55	144	80	833	0.68
7	Jordan LoveGB	1,218	8.76	139	86	1,121	0.92
8	Drake MayeNE	1,204	7.82	154	108	1,433	1.19
9	Dak PrescottDAL	1,138	6.69	170	117	1,336	1.17
10	Daniel JonesIND	1,072	8.12	132	75	974	0.91
11	Cam WardTEN	1,067	8.27	129	64	664	0.62
12	C.J. StroudHOU	1,025	8.20	125	81	910	0.89
13	Justin HerbertLAC	1,010	6.39	158	108	1,301	1.29
14	Lamar JacksonBAL	998	8.68	115	65	951	0.95
15	Josh AllenBUF	972	7.31	133	88	1,169	1.20
16	Bryce YoungCAR	938	8.02	117	67	769	0.82
17	Patrick MahomesKC	922	8.46	109	61	725	0.79
18	Jared GoffDET	915	6.10	150	95	1,253	1.37
19	Geno SmithLV	900	7.26	124	82	986	1.10
20	Joe FlaccoCIN	824	9.81	84	41	579	0.70
21	Bo NixDEN	741	6.12	121	74	856	1.16
22	Marcus MariotaWAS	739	9.24	80	52	665	0.90
23	Jacoby BrissettARI	730	7.60	96	65	758	1.04
24	Tyler ShoughNO	683	9.76	70	47	539	0.79
25	Jaxson DartNYG	680	7.47	91	60	698	1.03
26	Michael Penix Jr.ATL	679	9.43	72	38	561	0.83
27	J.J. McCarthyMIN	614	9.59	64	34	465	0.76
28	Tua TagovailoaMIA	564	6.71	84	54	635	1.13
29	Spencer RattlerNO	564	9.56	59	42	424	0.75
30	Kirk CousinsATL	492	7.03	70	47	520	1.06
31	Aaron RodgersPIT	486	5.01	97	59	542	1.11
32	Justin FieldsNYJ	443	7.26	61	33	410	0.93
33	Joe BurrowCIN	412	7.77	53	36	390	0.95
34	Brock PurdySF	401	6.37	63	43	469	1.17
35	Shedeur SandersCLE	400	8.89	45	22	334	0.83
36	Mac JonesSF	352	6.29	56	34	340	0.97

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