peyton manning is the all-time passing leader in the nfl.
peyton manning is the all-time passing leader in the nfl.
who is the all-time passing leader in the nfl?
peyton manning
zeier finished his college career with 67 school records and 18 southeastern conference records. he became the sec's all-time passing leader with 11,153 yards—a record which has been surpassed only by peyton manning and uga's own david greene and aaron murray. in 1993, his junior season, zeier threw for 544 yards against southern miss, a school record. in 1994, zeier was named the american football coaches association first-team all-american quarterback. over his four years at georgia, zeier completed 877 of 1461 attempts for 11,153 yards, 67 touchdowns, and 37 interceptions.









































section::::career history.:nfl.
eric zeier
before the development of the passer rating, the nfl struggled with how to crown a passing leader. in the mid-1930s, it was the quarterback with the most passing yardage. from 1938 to 1940, it was the quarterback with the highest completion percentage. in 1941, a system was created that ranked the league's quarterbacks relative to their peers' performance. over the next thirty years the criteria used to crown a passing leader changed several times, but the ranking system made it impossible to determine a quarterback's rank until all the other quarterbacks were done playing that week, or to compare quarterback performances across multiple seasons. in 1971, nfl commissioner pete rozelle asked the league's statistical committee to develop a better system. the committee was headed by don smith of the pro football hall of fame, seymour siwoff of the elias sports bureau, and nfl executive don weiss. smith and siwoff established passing performance standards based on data from all qualified pro football passers between 1960 and 1970, and used those data to create the passer rating. the formula was adopted by the nfl in 1973.
passer rating