Title: List of National Football League records (individual)
Content:  passing yards, season, home: 2,853, Drew Brees, 2015 ; Most passing yards, season, away: 2,852, Drew Brees, 2011 ; Most passing yards, game: 554, Norm Van Brocklin, Sep 28, 1951. ; Most passing yards, combined, game: 1,000, Matthew Stafford, (520) and Matt Flynn, (480), Jan 1, 2012 ; Most passing yards, 1st half: 361, Peyton Manning, Jan 9, 2005 ; Most passing yards, 2nd half: 373, Kurt Warner, Sep 28, 2008 ; Most passing yards, overtime: 219, Derek Carr, Oct 30, 2016 ; Most passing yards, game, perfect passer rating (158.3): 465, Jared Goff, Sep 27, 2018 ; Most passing yards, game, rookie: 433, Andrew Luck, Nov 4, 2012 ; 
Title: List of NCAA major college football yearly passing leaders
Content:  The NCAA record for passing yards in a single season has been broken 10 times since 1937: by Davey O'Brien in 1938 with 1,457 yards; by Stan Heath in 1948 with 2,005 yards; by Don Trull in 1963 with 2,157 yards; by Jerry Rhome in 1964 with 2,870 yards; by Billy Anderson in 1965 with 3,464 yards; by Jim McMahon in 1980 with 4,571 yards; by Andre Ware in 1989 with 4,699 yards; by Ty Detmer in 1990 with 5,188 yards; by B. J. Symons in 2003 with 5,833 yards; and Bailey Zappe in 2021 with 5,967 yards. Only seven players have led the NCAA in passing yardage in multiple seasons. They are Brandon Doughty in 2014 and 2015; Case Keenum in 2009 and 2011; Graham Harrell 
Title: Cam Newton
Content: Most rushing touchdowns by a quarterback in NFL history (70) ; Most passing yards by a quarterback in his first two games (854), September 11, 2011, against the Arizona Cardinals and September 18, 2011, against the Green Bay Packers ; Most games in NFL history with a passing touchdown and a rushing touchdown (32) ; Most player of the week awards in a single season (5) tied with Tom Brady ; First player in NFL history and most games with at least 250 passing yards, 100 rushing yards, one passing touchdown, and one rushing touchdown in a single game (2) ; 
Title: Drew Brees
Content:  Brees reached another milestone in the game, becoming the sixth player to record 50,000 passing yards with one team. The other five players are Peyton Manning (Indianapolis Colts), Brett Favre (Green Bay Packers), Dan Marino (Miami Dolphins), Tom Brady (New England Patriots), and John Elway (Denver Broncos). In Week 7, Brees became the first player in NFL history with 100 games of 300+ passing yards, in a loss against the Kansas City Chiefs on October 23. During Week 16, Brees and Aaron Rodgers tied the NFL record for most seasons with at least 35 touchdown passes with four—a record shared with Peyton Manning and Tom Brady. Brees finished the 2016 season leading the league in passing yards with 5,208, the 
Title: List of National Football League annual passing yards leaders
Content:  This is a list of National Football League quarterbacks who have led the regular season in passing yards each year. The record for passing yards in a season is held by Peyton Manning of the Denver Broncos who threw for 5,477 in 2013. Drew Brees has led the NFL in passing yards in seven seasons, more than any other quarterback in NFL history. Brees also has five 5,000 yard passing seasons. No other quarterback has more than one.
Title: 2020 NFL season
Content:  two games despite his team scoring 42 points. ; Derrick Henry broke the record for most career games with at least 200 rushing yards and at least two touchdowns, with four. The previous record of three was shared by Jim Brown, Barry Sanders, and LaDainian Tomlinson. Aaron Rodgers became the first player to throw at least 40 touchdown passes in three separate seasons. ; Matt Ryan passed Fran Tarkenton for 10th place on the all-time career passing touchdowns list. ; Drew Brees passed Anthony Calvillo for most career passing yards in any professional football league, with 79,846. Calvillo passed for 79,816 yards 
Title: 2017 NFL season
Content:  50,000 passing yards. Week 10 ; Larry Fitzgerald became the sixth player in NFL history to record 15,000 career receiving yards. He's the second-youngest player in NFL history to do it, behind Jerry Rice. ; Matt Ryan reached 40,000 career passing yards in 151 games, the fewest games in NFL history, surpassing the previous record held by Drew Brees (152 games). Week 11 ; Larry Fitzgerald passed Tony Gonzalez into fifth place all-time in receiving yards. Week 12 ; Julio Jones had 563 catches for 8,649 yards in 90 career games, the most by a player in his first 90 games in NFL 
Title: 2021 NFL season
Content: Tom Brady became the first player to start 300 career games at any position. ; Jameis Winston passed for 145 yards and five touchdowns, setting the record for fewest passing yards in a game with at least five passing touchdowns. The previous record of 158 yards was held by Eddie LeBaron. Julio Jones became the fastest player to reach 13,000 receiving yards, doing so in 137 games. The previous record of 154 games was held by Jerry Rice. ; Aaron Rodgers passed John Elway for tenth place on the all-time passing yards list. ; Travis Kelce became the fastest tight end to 
Title: List of NCAA major college football yearly passing leaders
Content:  2007 and 2008; Colt Brennan in 2005 and 2006; Tim Rattay in 1998 and 1999; Ty Detmer in 1990 and 1991; and Robbie Bosco in 1984 and 1985. Three programs in the post-1936 "modern era" have had different players lead major-college football in passing yardage in consecutive seasons. The first was Tulsa in 1964 and 1965, respectively with Jerry Rhome and Billy Anderson. BYU has accomplished the feat twice—first with Marc Wilson in 1979 and Jim McMahon in 1980, and then with Steve Young in 1983 and Bosco the following two seasons. The most recent, Texas Tech, is the only program to have had three different players lead in consecutive seasons, doing so from 2002 to 2004 with Kliff Kingsbury, B. J. Symons, and Sonny Cumbie.
Title: List of National Football League career passing yards leaders
Content:  Through end of 2020–21 NFL playoffs. At least 2,500 passing yards.

Question: most passing yards in nfl history in a game?
Answer: Norm Van Brocklin.
554.