Which quarterbacks throw the most yards trailing in the final minutes?
Baker Mayfield leads all NFL quarterbacks with 426 passing yards while trailing and final 2 minutes (q4), on 35 completions and 4 passing touchdowns across 11 games.
NFL Quarterback Passing Yards Trailing in Final Minutes
Ranked by YDS · 2025 regular season| # | Player | YDS | ATT | CMP | CMP% | TD | GP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Baker Mayfield Tampa Bay Buccaneers · #6 | 426 | 54 | 35 | 64.8% | 4 | 11 |
| 2 | Caleb Williams Chicago Bears · #18 | 354 | 43 | 23 | 53.5% | 3 | 10 |
| 3 | Joe Flacco Cincinnati Bengals · #16 | 340 | 50 | 28 | 56.0% | 2 | 7 |
| 4 | Aaron Rodgers Pittsburgh Steelers · #8 | 279 | 33 | 18 | 54.5% | 3 | 6 |
| 5 | Tyler Shough New Orleans Saints · #6 | 272 | 41 | 27 | 65.8% | 3 | 6 |
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Trailing with the clock almost gone erases whatever offensive identity a team had for the rest of the game. Play-calling turns almost exclusively to the pass, timeouts and spikes replace huddles, and a quarterback's job becomes covering as much field as possible in as few plays as possible rather than managing a balanced attack.
Yardage produced here is inflated by opportunity as much as it reflects clutch performance. A quarterback whose team trails late and often will accumulate this kind of yardage simply by taking the field in that spot more frequently than a peer on a team that is usually ahead or already out of reach, regardless of who actually converts more often.
Look at how these drives actually end, not just how many yards they cover, before crediting a quarterback with closing ability. A player can pile up yardage in this window while still failing to finish drives with points, so pair this split with red zone results or turnover rate before treating him as reliable in a real comeback spot.