In what could be the penultimate regular-season game of Drew Brees‘ Hall of Fame career, he’s capping it with yet another milestone.
Brees finished the season with 364 completions, 489 attempts, 3,992 passing yards, 32 passing touchdowns and five interceptions over 15 games. He sat out the season finale after the Saints had clinched the NFC's #1 seed the week prior. According to oddsmakers from online sports book BetDSI, Brees is a 3/1 favorite to lead the NFL in passing yards in 2017. Tom Brady has the next-best odds at 6/1, followed by Aaron Rodgers, Derek Carr and Matt Ryan, who are all 10/1, respectively.
Brees has become the first player in NFL history to generate more than 80,000 passing yards.
Bucs quarterback Tom Brady, with 78,457 passing yards, could catch and surpass Brees next year, if Brees does indeed retire.
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Brady and Brees had been going back and forth in passing touchdowns, but Brady current has 573 to Brees’ 568. Brees has none today.
Brees missed four games with 11 fractured ribs and a collapsed lung. He still seems to be considerably less than 100 percent.
Another game, another astonishing accomplishment for Drew Brees. In the middle of Week 16’s first quarter, the New Orleans Saints quarterback and 11-time Pro Bowler became just the third player to surpass the 70,000 passing yard plateau.
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A screen to Mark Ingram is the play that did it. That’s pretty representative of what the Saints’ offense has been this season.
Brees joins Peton Manning (71,940 ) and Brett Favre (71,838), two all-time greats who were also joined by Brees earlier in the season as the only three passers to complete over 6,000 career passes. As for the passing yardage, Brees is on pace to move into first place sometime in October 2018 if he decides to return for another season.
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Brees is on his way to leading the NFL in completion percentage for the fourth time in his career. He also leads the league in Adjusted Net Yards per attempt, showing his efficiency and ability to avoid the sack and the turnover.
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His primary focus is leading the Saints to an 11th victory and securing a playoff berth for the first time since 2013. New Orleans currently leads 3-0 near the end of the first quarter.