Which quarterbacks throw for the most yards from shotgun?
Dak Prescott leads all NFL quarterbacks with 3,463 passing yards shotgun, on 311 completions and 17 passing touchdowns across 17 games.
NFL Quarterback Passing Yards from Shotgun
Ranked by YDS · 2025 regular season| # | Player | YDS | ATT | CMP | CMP% | TD | GP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dak Prescott Dallas Cowboys · #4 | 3,463 | 462 | 311 | 67.3% | 17 | 17 |
| 2 | Patrick Mahomes Kansas City Chiefs · #15 | 3,357 | 462 | 293 | 63.4% | 20 | 14 |
| 3 | Drake Maye New England Patriots · #10 | 3,354 | 383 | 269 | 70.2% | 19 | 17 |
| 4 | Bo Nix Denver Broncos · #10 | 3,238 | 501 | 321 | 64.1% | 19 | 17 |
| 5 | Trevor Lawrence Jacksonville Jaguars · #16 | 3,224 | 444 | 276 | 62.2% | 21 | 17 |
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Open this in the Stat Explorer →Why this matters
Lining up in shotgun changes the math before the ball is even snapped. The extra depth gives a quarterback more time to read the defense and a cleaner view of the rush, and offenses that live in the formation tend to ask their quarterback to process more of the field rather than get rid of the ball on a quick, predetermined read.
Formation is a call made well before any read happens. An offense built around shotgun elects into a certain style of passing game on nearly every snap, so a large total here says as much about how a coordinator built the game plan as it does about how well the quarterback played within it.
This number travels differently depending on how often a team actually uses the formation. A quarterback in an offense that rarely leaves shotgun accumulates this total simply by taking his normal snaps, while a quarterback under center more often needs a much smaller sample to produce the same number.