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Regular season career passing yards leaders. Tom Brady is the career passing yards leader with 89,214 yards and career playoff passing yards leader with 13,400. Drew Brees is second all-time in passing yards with 80,358. Aaron Rodgers, with over 60,000 passing yards, is the active leader in career yardage.
Norm Van Brocklin was the first to do so, whose 554-yard performance in a 1951 game remains the league record for most passing yards in a game. [5]Only three quarterbacks have thrown for over 500 yards more than once in their career; Drew Brees and Tom Brady did so twice (both of Brees' 500-yard games occurred in regular season games, while Brady had one 500-yard game each in both a regular ...
Most consecutive starts by a receiver: 176 (185 including playoffs), Tim Brown, 1992–2003. Most consecutive starts by a running back: 170 (178 including playoffs), Walter Payton, 1975–1987. Most consecutive starts by an offensive lineman: 240 (259 including playoffs), Mick Tingelhoff, 1962–1979.
The average standard is 1.000. The bottom is .000. To earn a 2.000 rating, a passer must perform at exceptional levels, i.e., 70 percent in completions, 10 percent in touchdowns, 1.5 percent in interceptions, and 11 yards average gain per pass attempt. In order to make the rating more understandable, the point rating is then converted into a ...
This list is sorted by 1) games played, 2) first year played, 3) last year played. Tom Brady has played the most NFL games at quarterback, 335. Jason Hanson holds the NFL record of 21 seasons with the same team as placekicker for the Lions. Jerry Rice played 303 games as a wide receiver, an NFL record.
NFL annual passing yards leaders. Johnny Unitas, who led the league in passing four times, passed for 3,099 yards in 1960. This marked the first time that a player passed for over 3,000 in a season. [11] Joe Namath was the first player to pass for over 4,000 yards in a season, doing so in the 1967 AFL season. [12]
The National Football League (NFL) did not begin keeping official records until the 1932 season. [2] In addition to the overall NFL pass completion percentage leaders, league record books recognize the pass completion percentage leaders of the American Football League (AFL), which operated from 1960 to 1969 before being absorbed into the NFL in ...
Non-kickers. The top five scoring non-kickers in NFL history are listed here with their overall scoring rank. Only one non-kicker, Jerry Rice, is in the top 50 scorers of all time. Rank.