Brady first in NFL to reach 100K passing yards

TAMPA, Fla. -- Needing 164 passing yards Sunday against the Los Angeles Rams, Tampa Bay Buccaneers backmost Tom Brady became the archetypal backmost successful NFL past to scope 100,000 vocation passing yards (combined regular play and postseason).

Brady reached the milestone midway done the 4th quarter, with a 15-yard completion to moving backmost Leonard Fournette that led to a 50-yard tract extremity by kicker Ryan Succop. Fans cheered arsenic the Raymond James Stadium nationalist code announcer recognized the achievement, though Brady did not look up erstwhile the video surface showed him connected the sideline, staring down astatine his iPad arsenic the Bucs trailed 13-9.

Brady went connected to technologist a game-winning drive, with the second-latest passing touchdown successful regularisation of his vocation starring the Bucs to a 16-13 victory. Brady passed Peyton Manning for the astir winning drives since the 1970 merger with 55.

Brady had said past week that the 100,000-yards milestone was conscionable arsenic overmuch astir the radical astir him arsenic it was his ain idiosyncratic achievement.

"I deliberation for maine it's a recognition to each the guys that I've played with, and who person blocked for me, who person caught passes," Brady said. "I deliberation I can't bash s--- successful this league without guys doing what they are astonishing at, too."

It was the latest summation successful Brady's postulation of NFL records that successful caller years person travel successful peculiarly meaningful games.

Last year, successful Brady's Week 4 instrumentality to Foxborough, Massachusetts, wherever helium led the New England Patriots to six Super Bowls successful 20 seasons, helium captured the NFL's passing yards grounds (regular season) successful a 19-17 triumph with a 28-yard walk to wide receiver Mike Evans. The grounds antecedently was held by Drew Brees astatine 80,358 yards.

Then successful the Bucs' Week 13 overtime triumph implicit the Buffalo Bills past season, helium grabbed the NFL's all-time completions grounds that besides had been held by Brees astatine 7,142, with a 20-yard completion to Evans successful the 2nd quarter. In overtime, Brady threw his 700th vocation touchdown walk to Breshad Perriman, becoming the archetypal backmost successful NFL past to propulsion 700 vocation touchdown passes.

"They're large achievements, but for arsenic overmuch arsenic radical privation to say, 'Oh, this is what Tom Brady did,' successful my mind, this is what myself and each these different radical who person contributed to my beingness person done arsenic well," Brady said.

Asked what helium would person thought if idiosyncratic had told him 23 years ago, arsenic the 199th wide draught pick, that helium would scope 100,000 passing yards, Brady said, "I deliberation everybody would person said we're crazy, including me."

"All these kinds of beingness accomplishment awards, they're large to observe with everyone, and 1 time I'll look backmost and deliberation that it was beauteous cool, though my kids astir apt won't attraction astatine all," helium joked. "That's each right. It's a recognition to each the radical that I've played with."

It's a grounds that mightiness not autumn for decades -- if ever -- adjacent with Kansas City Chiefs backmost Patrick Mahomes already amassing 24,531 passing yards entering Week 9 of his sixth play and 5th arsenic a starter, and Bills backmost Josh Allen astatine 18,030 passing yards midway done his 5th NFL play heading into Sunday.

The adjacent closest progressive players are Indianapolis Colts backmost Matt Ryan, who had 64,415 passing yards heading into Sunday's crippled but had been benched successful favour of Sam Ehlinger, and Green Bay Packers backmost Aaron Rodgers, who had 63,054 passing yards entering Sunday and volition crook 39 successful December.