Who Has the Most Completions in the NFL?
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In this blog post, we’ll take a look at the NFL quarterbacks who have the most completions in a single season.
Peyton Manning
Peyton Manning is a retired American football quarterback who played 18 seasons in the National Football League, primarily with the Indianapolis Colts. He is a four-time NFL MVP and was the most valuable player of Super Bowl XLI. He is also the NFL’s all-time leader in passing yards and passing touchdowns.
Completions
Peyton Manning currently holds the NFL record for the most completions in a career with 6,125. He is followed by Brett Favre who has 6,300 completions. Drew Brees is in third place with 6,147 completions.
Touchdowns
Peyton Manning holds the NFL record for most touchdown passes in a career, with 539. He also holds the single-season record for touchdown passes, with 55 in 2013.
Drew Brees
Drew Brees is an American football quarterback for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL). He is the all-time leader in career passing yards and career passing touchdowns. He has been selected to 11 Pro Bowls, was the NFC Offensive Player of the Year in 2006 and 2008, and was named Super Bowl MVP in 2010.
Completions
Drew Brees has the most completions in NFL history. He is currently in his 18th season and has played for the New Orleans Saints since 2006. In that time, he has completed 6,586 of 9,787 attempts for 79,492 yards and 547 touchdowns. He has also thrown for a single-season record 5,476 yards and his career passer rating of 99.4 is second only to Aaron Rodgers.
Touchdowns
In his 20 NFL seasons, Drew Brees has thrown for 547 touchdown passes, which is the most in NFL history. He’s also thrown for the second-most yards ( surgeon ), behind only Peyton Manning.
Tom Brady
Tom Brady currently has the most completions in the NFL with 6,377. He is closely followed by Drew Brees with 6,351 completions. In third place is Eli Manning with 5,933 completions.
Completions
Completions are the number of times a quarterback successfully passes the ball to a receiver. The receiver must catch the ball and have both feet in bounds for it to be counted as a completion. In order for a forward pass to be legal, the quarterback must release the ball before he crosses the line of scrimmage. If the ball is thrown behind the line of scrimmage, it is considered a lateral and is not counted as a completion.
Touchdowns
Tom Brady has the most touchdown passes in NFL history. Brady has thrown 581 touchdown passes in his career, which is the most of any quarterback in NFL history. He has also thrown for the most yards in NFL history, with 79,416.
