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All time touchdown passes3/28/2023 Which star quarterback will wind up at the top of the lists when all is said and done?Īge is the key factor to all that. Brees has five of the top 10 performances in this category, with Brady’s best game in 14th place. Brees set it on Monday night, in addition to breaking the career touchdowns record. How about completion percentage? Well, with a minimum of 30 pass attempts, the single-game record is held by Brees at a mind-boggling 96.7 percent. And it was tied in September by the Rams’ Jared Goff, a player who, if he has the durability and desire, certainly has the potential for some big career numbers someday. ![]() The record of 45 was set, oddly enough, by the man Brady replaced as Patriots quarterback, Drew Bledsoe, in 1994. Each has hit 39 in a game, Brady twice and Brees four times, tied for 28th. Neither player has had a really huge game in terms of completions. (Shout out to Norm Van Brocklin, the leader in that stat, who passed for 554 yards in 1951 for the Rams against the now-defunct New York Yanks.) Brees’s best is 510 yards. Brady has thrown six touchdowns in a single regular-season game three times.īrady’s total of 517 passing yards against the Dolphins in 2011 is tied for the eighth highest total in a single game. Still, Brees is one of seven quarterbacks who share the record for touchdown passes in a game. (Favre went down 525 times.)Īnd how about the ugliest play in football, at least from the quarterback’s perspective? Brees ranks fourth in pick-6s, with Brady tied for 34th. ![]() (Favre leads with 336.)īrady has been sacked the fourth most times in N.F.L. 1.īrees is 15th in interceptions, for example, with Brady tied at 42nd. But it is a testament to their ability that neither player is dominating any of these less appealing categories. When great players hang around as long as Brees and Brady have, they can’t help but climb the charts of the not-so-good statistics as well. It’s the extra incompletions that keep Brett Favre in first in that category at 10,169. They don’t lead in passing attempts, although that is hardly a knock against them. ![]() But Brady has also sailed past Manning and stands second at 74,079.Ĭompleted passes? Brees and Brady are 1-2 again at 6,821 and 6,335. Last season, Brees broke another Manning record and became the career passing yards leader. It’s not just in touchdowns that Brees and Brady rule. But Brady, the New England Patriots’ quarterback, has 538 depending on how the last two games of the season go, there could be a third different career leader in a span of a few weeks. The Good Statsīrees now has 541 career touchdown passes, moving past the retired Peyton Manning at 539. In an era of big numbers for passers, those two names are almost always found at the top of quarterback lists. history.īut a look at the statistical standings shows that another quarterback wasn’t left too far behind: Tom Brady. Drew Brees’s four-touchdown performance on Monday night did not only lead the New Orleans Saints to a comfortable 34-7 win over the Indianapolis Colts, it also gave him more touchdown passes than any other quarterback in N.F.L.
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