Romo, Brady top individual passing YPA leaders

Tony Romo and Tom Brady are each coming off their worst game of the season, but the two continue to lead the NFL in individual passing yards per attempt.

 

It simply confirms what you probably already knew: Sunday's First Big Game of the season between New England and Dallas should provide plenty of offensive fireworks.

 

The list of Top 30 passers, sorted by yards per attempt, is below.

 

(In our weekly Quality Stats, we look at team-wide Passing Yards Per Attempt as a way to rate the effectiveness of each club's passing attack. As a team-wide Quality Stat, we include sacks in the calculation as a way to get the true measure of a team's results each time they step back to pass. This individual list does not include sacks in the calculation.)

 

2007 Individual Passing Yards Per Attempt Leaders (through Week 5)

		COMP	ATT	PCT	YARDS	TD	INT	RATING	YPA
1	Tony Romo	101	171	59.1	1,508	13	8	93.9	8.82
2	Tom Brady	117	158	74.1	1,383	16	2	128.7	8.75
3	Kurt Warner	43	69	62.3	580	4	1	102.3	8.41
4	David Garrard	68	102	66.7	848	4	0	105.4	8.31
5	Matt Schaub	111	157	70.7	1,299	5	4	95.5	8.27
6	Brodie Croyle	10	17	58.8	138	1	0	104.5	8.12
7	Jeff Garcia	76	113	67.3	914	4	0	103.6	8.09
8	Peyton Manning	115	165	69.7	1,319	10	2	108.6	7.99
9	Jon Kitna	114	167	68.3	1,333	8	6	93.2	7.98
10	Derek Anderson	83	159	52.2	1,251	11	8	80.5	7.87
11	Ben Roethlisberger	81	131	61.8	1,013	9	3	99.2	7.73
12	Jason Campbell	67	113	59.3	869	4	3	84.3	7.69
13	Jay Cutler	98	152	64.5	1,158	4	6	79.9	7.62
14	Daunte Culpepper	13	26	50	193	2	0	100.3	7.42
15	Matt Hasselbeck	99	155	63.9	1,148	7	4	90.5	7.41
16	Philip Rivers	102	157	65	1,156	7	6	85.8	7.36
17	Carson Palmer	101	160	63.1	1,171	10	6	90.4	7.32
18	Jake Delhomme	55	86	64	626	8	1	111.9	7.28
19	Brett Favre	141	210	67.1	1,527	9	4	94.7	7.27
20	Josh McCown	44	68	64.7	494	4	5	75.2	7.26
21	Trent Green	85	141	60.3	987	5	7	72.6	7.00
22	Donovan McNabb	79	136	58.1	943	5	1	88.6	6.93
23	Damon Huard	97	149	65.1	1,029	4	6	77.3	6.91
24	Chad Pennington	84	118	71.2	811	6	5	89.3	6.87
25	Joey Harrington	105	156	67.3	1,070	4	3	87.3	6.86
26	Eli Manning	92	157	58.6	1,076	9	6	82.7	6.85
27	Brian Griese	49	77	63.6	500	4	4	77.8	6.49
28	Trent Edwards	55	79	69.6	507	1	3	75.2	6.42
29	Kelly Holcomb	35	67	52.2	427	1	1	70.9	6.37
30	Kellen Clemens	24	47	51.1	295	1	2	60.2	6.28

By Kerry Byrne