What Are Air Yards?
Air Yards records the total distance the football travels in the air from the line of scrimmage to the point of catch or incompletion.
Air Yards | NFL Advanced Stats
| Player | Team | Position | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 176 | KeAndre Lambert-Smith |  | WR | 69 | 0 | - | - | - | - | 69 |
| 177 | Zavion Thomas |  | WR | 68 | 62 | 65 | 72 | - | -4 | 72 |
| 177 | Noah Fant |  | TE | 68 | 1 | 7 | - | - | 19 | 49 |
| 179 | Jalen Royals |  | WR | 67 | 3 | 38 | 66 | - | 20 | 47 |
| 180 | Foster Moreau |  | TE | 66 | 0 | 36 | 45 | - | 17 | 49 |
| 181 | Daniel Bellinger |  | TE | 63 | 22 | 57 | 59 | - | 42 | 21 |
| 181 | Savion Williams |  | WR | 63 | 20 | 63 | - | - | 28 | 35 |
| 183 | Jonnu Smith | | TE | 62 | - | - | - | - | 19 | 43 |
| 184 | Zach Ertz |  | TE | 61 | - | - | - | - | 31 | 30 |
| 185 | Nate Boerkircher |  | TE | 59 | 25 | 44 | 57 | - | 50 | 9 |
| 186 | Brevyn Spann-Ford |  | TE | 57 | 24 | 59 | 49 | - | 18 | 39 |
| 186 | Marvin Mims Jr. |  | WR | 57 | -12 | 45 | 57 | - | 27 | 30 |
| 188 | Mitchell Evans |  | TE | 55 | 3 | 22 | 47 | - | 35 | 20 |
| 189 | David NjokuInjured ReserveRoster status | | TE | 53 | - | - | - | - | 53 | - |
| 190 | Deebo Samuel Sr.Out: HamstringPractice: Did Not ParticipateWeek 7 report · updated Oct 22 |  | WR | 51 | - | - | - | - | 33 | 18 |
| 191 | Elijah Higgins |  | TE | 48 | 6 | 11 | 40 | - | 30 | 18 |
| 191 | Dawson Knox |  | TE | 48 | 8 | 37 | 43 | - | 17 | 31 |
| 193 | Jayden ReedInjured ReserveRoster status | | WR | 45 | - | - | - | - | - | 45 |
| 193 | Jadarian Price |  | RB | 45 | 4 | - | - | - | 3 | 42 |
| 195 | Colby ParkinsonQuestionable: RibPractice: Did Not ParticipateWeek 8 report · updated Oct 29 |   | TE | 42 | - | - | - | - | 36 | 6 |
| 196 | Austin Hooper |  | TE | 41 | 3 | 20 | 18 | - | 30 | 11 |
| 197 | De'Von AchaneInjured ReserveRoster status |  | RB | 38 | - | - | - | - | 10 | 28 |
| 198 | Josh Jacobs | | RB | 37 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 36 |
| 199 | Will Kacmarek | | TE | 30 | 4 | 3 | 22 | - | 3 | 27 |
| 199 | Zachariah Branch | | WR | 30 | 0 | 28 | 24 | - | 14 | 16 |
Who leads the NFL in air yards in 2026?
Through games played November 3, 2026, Matthew Golden of Green Bay leads all NFL players in air yards with 1,165. Jaxon Smith-Njigba of Seattle is second with 937 & Michael Wilson of Arizona third with 921. Golden's total puts him 228 yards clear of second place & 595 ahead of the 25th-ranked player.
Brock Bowers of Las Vegas is the highest-ranked tight end on the board at 608 yards, 23rd overall. CeeDee Lamb of Dallas is fourth with 907, Christian Watson of Green Bay fifth with 882, Chris Olave of New Orleans sixth with 871, Tee Higgins of Cincinnati seventh with 831, Malik Nabers of the New York Giants eighth with 811, DK Metcalf of Pittsburgh ninth with 809 & Denzel Boston of Cleveland tenth with 801.
Forty-two yards separate tenth from 11th, the widest single step anywhere below the top four. Davante Adams of the Los Angeles Rams ranks 11th with 759, George Pickens of Dallas 12th with 722, Tetairoa McMillan of Carolina 13th with 693, Jameson Williams of Detroit 14th with 657, Garrett Wilson of the New York Jets 15th with 653, Rome Odunze of Chicago 16th with 652 & Carnell Tate of Tennessee 17th with 646.
Eight players sit inside 35 yards of each other from 15th to 22nd, the tightest stretch of the ranking. Tre Tucker of Las Vegas is 18th with 643, Amon-Ra St. Brown of Detroit 19th with 640, Ja'Marr Chase of Cincinnati 20th with 635, Drake London of Atlanta 21st with 619, Parker Washington of Jacksonville 22nd with 618, Brock Bowers of Las Vegas 23rd with 608, Mike Evans of San Francisco 24th with 571 & Puka Nacua of the Los Angeles Rams 25th with 570. Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, Green Bay, Las Vegas & the Los Angeles Rams are the only teams with two players in the top 25. Twenty-four of the 25 are wide receivers; the only tight end is Bowers 23rd.
How this ranking is measured
The ranking above covers the top 25 of 259 NFL players in the 2026 regular season. A minimum of 8 targets is applied. Air Yards records the total distance the football travels in the air from the line of scrimmage to the point of catch or incompletion. Figures are as of November 3, 2026 & are recalculated on StatRankings after each game's play-by-play is processed.
