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Kansas City Chiefs Yards per Attempt Leaders

Career totals with the Chiefs 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. Includes the club's AFL seasons (1960-1969), which the NFL's record book counts. Dallas Texans 1960-1962.

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Trent Green holds the Chiefs career record with 7.73 yards per attempt. The single-season record is 9.42, by Len Dawson in 1968.

YDS TD RTG Y/A CMP% Y/G CMP ATT 1D TD% INT INT% SK

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 Chiefs leaders

Career totals with the club
# Player With the club Y/A G
1 Trent Green Trent Green 2001–2006 7.73 88
2 Len Dawson Len Dawson 1962–1975 7.71 183
3 Patrick Mahomes Patrick Mahomes 2017–2026 7.71 131
4 Steve DeBerg Steve DeBerg 1988–1991 7.35 57
5 Alex Smith Alex Smith 2013–2017 7.23 76
6 Bill Kenney Bill Kenney 1980–1988 7.11 106
7 Elvis Grbac Elvis Grbac 1997–2000 6.87 48
8 Mike Livingston Mike Livingston 1968–1979 6.45 91

Single-season Chiefs records

Best seasons in club history
# Player Season Y/A G
1 Len Dawson Len Dawson 1968 9.42 14
2 Len Dawson Len Dawson 1962 8.90 14
3 Len Dawson Len Dawson 1966 8.90 14
4 Patrick Mahomes Patrick Mahomes 2018 8.79 16
5 Patrick Mahomes Patrick Mahomes 2019 8.33 14
6 Len Dawson Len Dawson 1971 8.32 14
7 Trent Green Trent Green 2004 8.25 16
8 Len Dawson Len Dawson 1964 8.13 14
9 Patrick Mahomes Patrick Mahomes 2022 8.10 17
10 Patrick Mahomes Patrick Mahomes 2020 8.06 15
11 Alex Smith Alex Smith 2017 8.00 15
12 Mike Livingston Mike Livingston 1976 7.93 14
13 Trent Green Trent Green 2005 7.92 16
14 Trent Green Trent Green 2002 7.85 16
15 Steve DeBerg Steve DeBerg 1989 7.81 12
16 Steve DeBerg Steve DeBerg 1990 7.76 16
17 Trent Green Trent Green 2003 7.72 16
18 Bill Kenney Bill Kenney 1987 7.72 11
19 Damon Huard Damon Huard 2006 7.70 10
20 Elvis Grbac Elvis Grbac 2000 7.65 14
21 Dave Krieg Dave Krieg 1992 7.54 16
22 Bill Kenney Bill Kenney 1985 7.50 16
23 Bill Kenney Bill Kenney 1984 7.44 9
24 Len Dawson Len Dawson 1967 7.43 14
25 Alex Smith Alex Smith 2015 7.42 16