Who Has The Most Td Passes In Nfl History?
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Who Has The Most Td Passes In Nfl History?
Peyton Manning
Peyton Manning is a former American football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 18 seasons. After a successful college football career with the University of Tennessee, he was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts as the first overall pick in the 1998 NFL Draft. From 1998 to 2010, he was the Colts’ starting quarterback. He was released by the Colts after they selected Andrew Luck with the first overall pick in the 2012 NFL Draft and he subsequently signed with the Denver Broncos.
Regular season
Peyton Manning is a former American football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 18 seasons. After playing college football for the University of Tennessee, he was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts as the first overall pick in the 1998 NFL Draft. Manning spent 14 seasons with the Colts, where he became one of the NFL’s most prolific quarterbacks. He was released by the Colts after missing all of 2011 due to several neck surgeries. Manning holds many NFL records, including most career touchdown passes (539), most career passing yards (71,940), most single-season passing yards (5,477 in 2013), most career regular season wins (186), and most touchdown passes in a single season (55 in 2013).
Postseason
In the postseason, Manning holds NFL records for most career passing yards (7,339), touchdown passes (52), and completed passes (664). He is tied for second place for the most wins by a starting quarterback with 13 wins (Tom Brady has the most with 27). Manning also has the second longest touchdown pass in NFL postseason history with an 80-yard pass to Demaryius Thomas during the 2012 AFC Wildcard Playoffs.
Drew Brees
Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints has the most touchdown passes in NFL history. As of September 8, 2020, he has thrown 571 touchdown passes. He has also thrown for the most yards in NFL history, with 74,437 yards.
Regular season
In the regular season, Brees has thrown for 70,514 yards and 547 touchdowns, completing 67.1 percent of his passes. He has added another 3,629 yards and 28 touchdowns rushing. He has led his team to nine playoff appearances, including a win in Super Bowl XLIV over the Indianapolis Colts.
Postseason
In the playoffs, Brees has continued to play at a high level. In ten starts, he has a 6–4 record with 19 touchdown passes and six interceptions. His passer rating of 103.7 in the playoffs is second all-time behind only Aaron Rodgers. In the divisional round of the 2006 playoffs against the Philadelphia Eagles, Brees set an NFL record with 28 consecutive completions, completing his last 19 passes to end the game. The streak began late in the second quarter and carried over into overtime, where he completed a touchdown pass to Reggie Bush to win the game 27–24. It was Brees’s first career playoff victory. In 2009, he led the Saints back from a 0–14 deficit against Arizona in an NFC divisional round game; they won 45–14, but lost the next week in Minnesota in the NFC Championship game.
Tom Brady
Tom Brady has the most touchdown passes in NFL history. He has thrown for 581 touchdown passes in his career. Brady has played in nine Super Bowls, winning seven of them.
Regular season
In the regular season, Brady has played in 288 games, completing 6,377 of 10,158 passes for 74,571 yards and 517 touchdowns with 202 interceptions, all of which are NFL records. He has also rushed for 28 touchdowns.
Postseason
Tom Brady has led the New England Patriots to nine Super Bowl appearances, winning six of them. He is the only player in NFL history to have won five Super Bowls as a starting quarterback, and he’s done it all in just 16 seasons.
Brady has been named the Super Bowl MVP four times, which is also an NFL record. He was named the league MVP in 2007 and 2010, becoming just the second player ever to win that award multiple times.
In 2017, Brady set the all-time record for most touchdown passes in a season (28). He now has 581 career touchdown passes, which ranks fourth all-time.
Brett Favre
Brett Favre has the most TD passes in NFL history. He played in the NFL for 20 seasons and threw for over 71,000 yards. He was a 3-time MVP and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2016.
Regular season
In the regular season, Favre started 302 games, completing 6,300 of 10,169 passes for 71,838 yards and 508 touchdowns with 336 interceptions, while also rushing for 1,6966 yards and 14 touchdowns. He also holds many other NFL records.
Postseason
In the NFL, the postseason is the period at the end of the regular season during which six teams from each of the league’s two conferences qualify for the playoffs. A single-elimination tournament then determines the league’s champion.
The term “playoffs” is incorrectly used to refer to any single-elimination tournament, even ones that involve four teams or fewer. The correct term for such a tournament in American English is “single-elimination bracket”.
During Brett Favre’s career, he played in 31 postseason games with NFC teams Green Bay Packers (1992–2007) and Minnesota Vikings (2009–2010), tied with Eli Manning for fourth-most appearances by a quarterback. He won 18 of those games, tied with Tom Brady for most among quarterbacks.
Dan Marino
Dan Marino threw for more than 61,000 yards and 420 touchdowns in his 17-year NFL career with the Miami Dolphins, both of which are records that still stand today. Marino led the Dolphins to the playoffs 10 times and was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005.
Regular season
Marino was one of the most prolific quarterbacks in NFL history, holding almost every major passing record. He was named NFL Rookie of the Year in 1983, NFL Most Valuable Player in 1984, and Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year in 1984. Although he never played on a Super Bowl-winning team, he is considered one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time.
Marino led the Dolphins to ten playoff appearances, the most in team history. In those ten playoff appearances, he compiled an 11–10 record, including five AFC Divisional Playoff losses and one AFC Championship loss. His career record as a starter was 147 wins and 93 losses. He is currently ranked fourth all time on the NFL’s passer rating list (92.8), behind only Steve Young (96.8), Roger Staubach ( passer rating 95.4), and Peyton Manning ( passer rating 95.2).
Postseason
In the postseason, Marino was even better, leading the Dolphins to ten playoff appearances. He holds numerous NFL records for postseason performance, including most passing yards (8,358), most touchdown passes (68), and most game winning drives (18). He also had ten 300-yard passing games in the playoffs, tied with Peyton Manning for second all time behind only Brett Favre’s 11.
