Who Has the Most Completions in NFL History?

Peyton Manning holds the NFL record for the most completed passes in a career.
In this blog post, we’ll take a look at the players who have the most completed passes in NFL history.

Peyton Manning

Peyton Manning has the most completions in NFL history with 6,125. Manning also has the second most passing yards in NFL history with 71,940. Manning is a 14-time Pro Bowler and was the NFL MVP five times.

Completions

Peyton Manning is currently the NFL leader in career completions with 6,125. He is followed by Brett Favre (6,300), Drew Brees (6,222), Tom Brady (6,378), and Eli Manning (3,380).

Touchdowns

In his 18 NFL seasons, Peyton Manning racked up 539 touchdown passes, the most in league history. He also holds the league record for career passing yards (71,940) and ranks second in career passing attempts (10,686).

Brett Favre

Brett Favre has the most completions in NFL history. He played in the NFL for 20 seasons and completed 6,300 of his 10,169 pass attempts. That is an NFL record. He is also the only player in NFL history to have more than 60,000 passing yards.

Completions

In the National Football League (NFL), the title of most completed passes in a career has been held by Brett Favre since 2007. He completed 6,300 passes while playing for four different teams from 1991 to 2010. Drew Brees is second on the list with 6,142 completions as of the end of the 2020 NFL season. Peyton Manning is third, having completed 6,125 passes in his career.

Touchdowns

Brett Favre has the record for the most touchdown passes in NFL history with 613. He played quarterback for 20 seasons, spending most of his career with the Green Bay Packers. He also played for the New York Jets and Minnesota Vikings.

Drew Brees

Few quarterbacks in NFL history have had the type of career that Drew Brees has had. In his 20 years in the league, he has accumulated a number of impressive statistical achievements, including leading the league in passing yards (11 times), passing touchdowns (6 times), and completions (9 times). He is also the all-time leader in passing yards (77,416) and passing touchdowns (547), and is second in completions (6,586).

Completions

In NFL history, only Brett Favre (6,300) has more completions than Brees (5,832), who ranks second all time.

Brees has completed 70 percent of his passes or better in eight different seasons, tied with Peyton Manning for the most such seasons in NFL history. He did it again in 2018, completing an NFL-record 74.4 percent of his passes.

Brees has thrown for 5,000 or more yards in a season seven times, the most such seasons in NFL history. He did it again in 2018, becoming the first player in NFL history with seven such seasons.

Touchdowns

Brees has completed 6,586 of his 10,351 pass attempts for 77,416 yards, 587 touchdowns, and 235 interceptions in his 20 NFL seasons. He also has rushed for 1,005 yards and 16 touchdowns. In 2010, he became the first quarterback ever to complete over 70 percent of his passes in a season (71.2). He has completed over 70 percent of his passes in eight of his eleven seasons as a Saint. Brees has thrown for over 5,000 yards in a season seven times – no other quarterback has done so more than four times. He did it again in 2018 to join Peyton Manning as the only quarterbacks to have done it five straight seasons. In 2019, Brees completed 77 percent of his passes (265/342), which was the fourth-best single-season completion percentage in NFL history and set an NFL record for highest completion percentage in a season with at least 340 completions.