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In 1920, the inaugural season of the NFL, [b] 11 veterans of major-league baseball (including George Halas and Jim Thorpe) became the first athletes to accomplish the feat. Since 1970, only seven athletes have done so, including Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders. Jackson was the first athlete to be selected as an All-Star in both MLB and the NFL.
Only players to throw and catch a pass for a touchdown in the same play: 3 yards, Brad Johnson on October 12, 1997; 37 yards, Frank Ryan on October 30, 1960; [295] 6 yards, Marcus Mariota on January 6, 2018 (playoff game) [296]
Note: Y. A. Tittle passed for 33,070 yards in his professional career, which would place him in 44th on this list, but 4,731 of those yards came in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC), which the NFL does not recognize statistics and records from to date. [54] [55] Thus, Tittle's career passing yards total in the NFL stands at 28,339. [56]
Peyton Manning holds the single-season passing yards record, passing for 5,477 yards in 2013. In American football, passing, along with running (also referred to as rushing), is one of the two main methods of advancing the ball down the field. Passes are typically attempted by the quarterback, but any offensive player can attempt a pass provided they are behind the line of scrimmage. To ...
NFL records include: List of NFL individual records, a list of all-time records for individual NFL players; List of NFL team records, a list of all-time records for teams and franchises; List of NFL team playoff records, a list of records in the NFL playoffs; List of Super Bowl records, a list of records set by teams and players in Super Bowl games
Since reliable yardage statistics were not recorded prior to 1932, the first NFL player recognized as the career leader in rushing yards was Cliff Battles, who played from 1932 to 1937 for the Boston Braves / Boston Redskins / Washington Redskins. [2] He led the NFL with 576 yards in 1932 and held on to the record throughout his career. Emmitt ...
Brett Favre, the all-time leader in consecutive starts by an NFL player. This is a list of the most consecutive starts and games played by a player by position in the National Football League (NFL). [1] [2] Quarterback Brett Favre's streak of 297 consecutive games started is the longest all-time. [3] [4] Among defensive players, Jim Marshall's ...
Jerry Rice is the NFL's all-time leader in receiving yards, with 22,895. [1] He is the only player to surpass 18,000 yards. Here are the 50 players with the most receiving yards: