| Team | Name | Att | Cmp | Yds | Cmp% | Avg | Tds | Td% | Int | Int% | Lng | Sck | SYds | Rtg |
| San Francisco | Joe Montana | 187 | 120 | 1534 | 64.17 | 8.20 | 10 | 5.35 | 3 | 1.60 | 68 | 21 | 120 | 100.88 |
| New England | Tony Eason | 225 | 146 | 1703 | 64.89 | 7.57 | 10 | 4.44 | 1 | 0.44 | 73 | 41 | 247 | 100.66 |
| Miami | Dan Marino | 159 | 91 | 1462 | 57.23 | 9.19 | 14 | 8.81 | 7 | 4.40 | 67 | 10 | 58 | 99.10 |
| New Orleans | Dave Wilson | 130 | 82 | 1086 | 63.08 | 8.35 | 6 | 4.62 | 2 | 1.54 | 73 | 7 | 38 | 98.43 |
| Seattle | Dave Krieg | 187 | 105 | 1239 | 56.15 | 6.63 | 13 | 6.95 | 4 | 2.14 | 55 | 11 | 63 | 90.74 |
| Los Angeles NFC | Jeff Kemp | 84 | 44 | 679 | 52.38 | 8.08 | 6 | 7.14 | 3 | 3.57 | 56 | 4 | 24 | 88.34 |
| Detroit | Gary Danielson | 265 | 177 | 1803 | 66.79 | 6.80 | 11 | 4.15 | 9 | 3.40 | 72 | 16 | 110 | 85.78 |
| New York NFC | Phil Simms | 108 | 59 | 830 | 54.63 | 7.69 | 8 | 7.41 | 5 | 4.63 | 65 | 13 | 93 | 85.03 |
| Indianapolis | Mike Pagel | 92 | 49 | 735 | 53.26 | 7.99 | 2 | 2.17 | 1 | 1.09 | 68 | 15 | 112 | 82.47 |
| San Diego | Dan Fouts | 182 | 101 | 1310 | 55.49 | 7.20 | 11 | 6.04 | 8 | 4.40 | 63 | 13 | 92 | 80.15 |
| Chicago | Jim McMahon | 173 | 85 | 1277 | 49.13 | 7.38 | 9 | 5.20 | 5 | 2.89 | 46 | 25 | 117 | 79.08 |
| Washington | Joe Theismann | 201 | 122 | 1246 | 60.70 | 6.20 | 8 | 3.98 | 9 | 4.48 | 44 | 34 | 222 | 73.10 |
| Green Bay | Lynn Dickey | 178 | 102 | 1236 | 57.30 | 6.94 | 7 | 3.93 | 9 | 5.06 | 76 | 18 | 114 | 70.81 |
| St. Louis | Neil Lomax | 311 | 181 | 1739 | 58.20 | 5.59 | 12 | 3.86 | 12 | 3.86 | 52 | 27 | 204 | 70.67 |
| Dallas | Gary Hogeboom | 166 | 81 | 1363 | 48.80 | 8.21 | 8 | 4.82 | 10 | 6.02 | 77 | 26 | 177 | 67.92 |
| Pittsburgh | Mark Malone | 126 | 68 | 925 | 53.97 | 7.34 | 6 | 4.76 | 8 | 6.35 | 61 | 12 | 70 | 67.06 |
| New York AFC | Ken O'Brien | 176 | 86 | 1009 | 48.86 | 5.73 | 5 | 2.84 | 6 | 3.41 | 54 | 17 | 95 | 61.96 |
| Denver | John Elway | 177 | 86 | 1031 | 48.59 | 5.82 | 6 | 3.39 | 8 | 4.52 | 69 | 19 | 81 | 59.31 |
| Cincinnati | Ken Anderson | 158 | 91 | 1037 | 57.59 | 6.56 | 3 | 1.90 | 10 | 6.33 | 49 | 18 | 118 | 57.38 |
| Philadelphia | Ron Jaworski | 94 | 44 | 693 | 46.81 | 7.37 | 4 | 4.26 | 7 | 7.45 | 58 | 13 | 97 | 54.96 |
| 62 / 176 x 224 = | 79 att minimum | |||||||||||||
| Tampa Bay | Steve DeBerg | 69 | 38 | 344 | 55.07 | 4.99 | 3 | 4.35 | 3 | 4.35 | 50 | 7 | 44 | 65.13 |
| Los Angeles AFC | Jim Plunkett | 46 | 21 | 328 | 45.65 | 7.13 | 0 | 0.00 | 4 | 8.70 | 33 | 5 | 20 | 33.61 |
| Los Angeles AFC | Marc Wilson | 43 | 15 | 227 | 34.88 | 5.28 | 3 | 6.98 | 6 | 13.95 | 65 | 6 | 46 | 36.82 |
| New York AFC | Pat Ryan | 11 | 6 | 90 | 54.55 | 8.18 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 9.09 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 43.75 |
| Cincinnati | Turk Schonert | 6 | 6 | 61 | 100.00 | 10.17 | 1 | 16.67 | 0 | 0.00 | 15 | 1 | 4 | 148.61 |
| Dallas | Danny White | 4 | 1 | 13 | 25.00 | 3.25 | 0 | 0.00 | 3 | 75.00 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 1.04 |
| Chicago | David Finzer | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39.58 |
| Green Bay | Randy Wright | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39.58 |
| Indianapolis | Art Schlichter | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 100.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Pittsburgh | Craig Colquitt | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39.58 |
| Green Bay | Rich Campbell | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0.00 |
| 0 | 0 | 3562 | 2007 | 25000 | 56.34 | 7.02 | 166 | 4.66 | 145 | 4.07 | 77 | 380 | 2370 | 76.85 |