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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 59,055 passing yards, is the active leader in career yardage.
Drew Christopher Brees ( / briːz /; born January 15, 1979) is an American former football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 20 seasons. [3] A member of the New Orleans Saints for most of his career, Brees is second all-time in career passing yards, career touchdown passes, career pass completions, and career ...
Marino's record of 5,084 yards set during the 1984 season remained intact for 24 years, and for over a decade after his 1999 retirement. 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.
In 1984, Dan Marino passed for 5,084 yards, setting the single-season passing yards record. He was the first player to pass for over 5,000 yards in a season and led the league in passing five times. Drew Brees led the league in passing yards in 2006, the first of his record seven times.
Drew Brees holds Purdue's career passing and total offense records. The Purdue Boilermakers football statistical leaders are individual statistical leaders of the Purdue Boilermakers football program in various categories, [1] [2] including passing, rushing, receiving, total offense, defensive stats, and kicking.
Brees' 80,358 career yards passing were an NFL record when he retired — a mark since eclipsed by only Tom Brady (89,214). Brees’ 571 career touchdown passes rank second behind Brady’s 649.
In the history of the National Football League (NFL), 21 different quarterbacks have passed for at least 500 yards in a single game 26 times, a feat also referred to as the "500 Club". 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.
During the 2021 NFL season, Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady passed Drew Brees to become the all-time passing yards leader in professional football league history. Brees had surpassed Anthony Calvillo for the record in the previous season, while Calvillo had surpassed Damon Allen for the record in the 2011 CFL season.