Arizona Cardinals Passing Yards per Game Leaders
Career totals with the Cardinals and the best single seasons in club history. Includes the 2026 season through October 19: these records are rebuilt every night, so a mark set yesterday is here this morning. Seasons before 1922 are not in the source. Figures before 1932 are reconstructions; the NFL kept no official statistics. Chicago Cardinals 1922-1959, St. Louis Cardinals 1960-1987, Phoenix Cardinals 1988-1993. 1944: merged with Pittsburgh as Card-Pitt. Merged-season player lines count for both franchises, as Pro-Football-Reference's franchise histories do. No schedule length in the source for 1944, so no season line that year qualifies for a rate board.
Carson Palmer holds the Cardinals career record with 279.7 passing yards per game. The single-season record is 291.9, by Carson Palmer in 2015.
Rate records use the league's own minimums: a season needs 14 pass attempts per team game with the club, a career 1,500+ pass attempts with the club.
All-time Cardinals leaders
Career totals with the club| # | Player | With the club | Y/G | G |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 Carson Palmer
|
2013–2017 | 279.7 | 60 |
| 2 |
 Kurt Warner
|
2005–2009 | 259.7 | 61 |
| 3 |
 Kyler Murray
|
2019–2025 | 235.2 | 87 |
| 4 |
 Neil Lomax
|
1981–1988 | 210.8 | 108 |
| 5 |
 Jake Plummer
|
1997–2002 | 209.8 | 84 |
| 6 |
 Jim Hart
|
1966–1983 | 174.1 | 199 |
| 7 |
 Charley Johnson
|
1961–1969 | 171.6 | 87 |
Single-season Cardinals records
Best seasons in club history| # | Player | Season | Y/G | G |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Carson Palmer
|
2015 | 291.9 | 16 |
| 2 |
Neil Lomax
|
1984 | 288.4 | 16 |
| 3 |
Kurt Warner
|
2008 | 286.4 | 16 |
| 4 |
Carson Palmer
|
2017 | 282.6 | 7 |
| 5 |
Neil Lomax
|
1987 | 282.3 | 12 |
| 6 |
Carson Palmer
|
2016 | 282.2 | 15 |
| 7 |
Kurt Warner
|
2005 | 271.3 | 10 |
| 8 |
Carson Palmer
|
2014 | 271.0 | 6 |
| 9 |
Kyler Murray
|
2021 | 270.5 | 14 |
| 10 |
Carson Palmer
|
2013 | 267.1 | 16 |
| 11 |
Kurt Warner
|
2009 | 250.5 | 15 |
| 12 |
Kyler Murray
|
2020 | 248.2 | 16 |
| 13 |
Kurt Warner
|
2007 | 243.5 | 14 |
| 14 |
Neil Lomax
|
1988 | 242.5 | 14 |
| 15 |
 Jacoby Brissett
|
2025 | 240.4 | 14 |
| 16 |
 John Skelton
|
2011 | 239.1 | 8 |
| 17 |
Charley Johnson
|
1963 | 234.3 | 14 |
| 18 |
Jake Plummer
|
1998 | 233.6 | 16 |
| 19 |
Kyler Murray
|
2019 | 232.6 | 16 |
| 20 |
 Boomer Esiason
|
1996 | 229.3 | 10 |
| 21 |
Jake Plummer
|
2001 | 228.3 | 16 |
| 22 |
Kyler Murray
|
2024 | 226.5 | 17 |
| 23 |
Kyler Murray
|
2023 | 224.9 | 8 |
| 24 |
 Dave Krieg
|
1995 | 222.1 | 16 |
| 25 |
Charley Johnson
|
1962 | 221.8 | 11 |