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Brees averaged 342.25 yards passing per game, which broke Dan Fouts's record of 320.3 in a strike-shortened 1982 season. [220] [221] In 2013, Peyton Manning bested Brees's record by one passing yard, and finished the season with an NFL-record 5,477 passing yards, averaging 342.31 yards per game. [222]
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 games with at least 80% pass completion rate and no interceptions, season (minimum 20 passes per game): 4, Drew Brees, 2018; Kirk Cousins, 2019 [44] Most games with at least 75% pass completion rate, career (minimum 20 attempts per game) : 67, Drew Brees , 2004–2020 [ 45 ]
Brees threw for 80,358 yards in his career, which is second all-time only to former New England Patriots great Tom Brady. Brees, who is now 44, will be eligible for the Pro Football Hall of Fame ...
Drew Brees college. Brees attended Purdue after receiving scholarship offers from the Boilermakers and Kentucky. Over four years with Purdue, Brees had 10,909 passing yards, 81 touchdowns and 41 ...
Peyton Manning holds the record with 5,477 passing yards in 2013; this surpassed Drew Brees, who recorded a then-record 5,476 passing yards in 2011, by one yard. Drew Brees, Tom Brady, and Patrick Mahomes are the only NFL quarterbacks to have multiple 5,000 yards seasons; Brees accomplished the feat a record five times, while Brady and Mahomes ...
Brees eclipsed the 5,000-yard mark in five seasons, with his career-best 5,476 yards coming in 2011. That mark ranks second all time, a single yard behind Peyton Manning’s 5,477 yards with ...
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.