Tom Brady's 1092
passing yards lead the league by more than 100 (over Rodgers), his eight touchdowns lead the league, and he has yet to throw an interception.
Not exact matches
(If you're wondering if it helped, I'll remind you that Brady returned to football, his first professional game in nine months, with a ridiculous game:
passing for 400
yards and three touchdowns,
leading the Patriots to victory.
In 2017: Darnold
led the Trojans to a record of 11 - 2, posting totals of 26 touchdown
passes and 3,787
passing yards with a 151.0 passer rating.
On Saturday night, quarterback Greg McElroy
led the team to one of its most decisive victories of the season, complete with an 88 -
yard drive, 239
passing yards, and some sweet ballet - like moves along the sideline.
His 405 completions
led the nation last season; his 4,718
passing yards and 38 touchdown
passes were second.
Tom Brady marched his team down the field 70
yards in eight plays, finishing the drive with another touchdown
pass to Hernandez to give the Patriots a 21 - 0
lead.
On Saturday, Chandler completed 18 of 31
passes for a touchdown and a career - high 314
yards to
lead Washington to a 31 - 21 defeat of Stanford at Husky Stadium.
Tom Brady connected with Donte Stallworth on the Patriots» second possession for a 63 -
yard touchdown
pass to extend the
lead, 28 - 0.
He guided L.A. to a 13 - 0
lead by throwing a two -
yard scoring
pass to tight end Andrew Glover and by engineering two drives that resulted in field goals of 24 and 27
yards by Jeff Jaeger.
A deep touchdown
pass from Brady to Brandon Lloyd capped off a six - play, 82 -
yard drive and gave New England a 14 - 0
lead.
He threw for nearly 3,400
yards in a defense - friendly conference, and despite 17 interceptions he
led the Hoosiers to a No. 23 ranking in
Passing S&P +.
Auburn football was rewarded on Saturday, as Burger
led his team to a 31 - 3 victory over Texas,
passing for 269
yards — the highest game total of any Auburn quarterback since Pat Sullivan in 1971.
Khalil Tate's 24 -
yard TD
pass gave Arizona its first
lead since the first quarter.
Last Saturday night, blown coverage by the Cornhuskers
led to the game's only touchdown, a 25 -
yard pass from Sun Devils senior quarterback Jake Plummer to senior wideout Keith Poole.
Preferring the ground game to the
passing game, wideout Will Murphy
lead the team in receiving with 38
yards on two carries.
They also had Peterson that
led to his low
passing yard numbers.
He almost always jumped the snap (which also
led to some offsides penalties), and yet even with his really good
pass - rush technique he still wasn't able to turn the corner tightly at less than nine
yards from the line of scrimmage most of the time.
Next play is the same play to # 15 for a 10
yard TD
pass as the Tigers are on the scoreboard with the
lead 7 - 6 with 9 min remaining.
Set up by a muffed punt, Beban scored on a one -
yard run to give UCLA a 7 - 0
lead, and after a surprise onside kick, a
pass from Beban to Kurt Altenberg set up another one -
yard plunge.
With wind gusts up to nearly 50 miles per hour making
passing an adventure, Evan Williams» 29 -
yard catch from Reed Vettel with 7:19 left in the second quarter brought St. Francis an 8 - 7
lead Grace Brethren - Simi Valley.
Though he caught only 25
passes and didn't start as a redshirt freshman in» 04, Meachem
led Tennessee with 459 receiving
yards and 18.4
yards per catch.
For the second time in four years, according to recruiting experts, coach Mack Brown signed the top incoming class in the nation, this one
led by Young, a 6» 5», 200 - pound quarterback who
passed and ran for a total of 3,819
yards and 59 touchdowns last season.
Kitna, property of the Seattle Seahawks,
leads the WLAF in
passing yardage (265.6 per game) and touchdowns (13), and is even fourth in rushing (43.3
yards per game).
Although Loville
led the Niners in rushing (he was also second on the team in receiving
yards), the team gained less than 100
yards rushing in eight of its last 10 games, forcing its quarterbacks to throw 40 or more
passes in nine of them.
Quarterback Matthew Stafford has thrown for 16 touchdowns and 11 interceptions, while
leading the NFL in
passing yards, with 3,742.
Led by junior quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase, who had a 64 -
yard touchdown
pass and a 15 -
yard scoring run, the Hawklets beat defending state champ Blue Springs South 27 — 21 in a matchup of the class's last two unbeatens.
By halftime Alabama had pushed Mississippi around for 250
yards, but the best it could manage in point terms was an 11 -
yard scoring
pass, Davis to Split End Dave Bailey, and another field goal by Bill Davis for a 13 - 6
lead.
As a true freshman in 2008, Baylor's slashing, scrambling quarterback
led the Bears with 13 rushing touchdowns and
passed or ran for 65 % of their
yards from scrimmage.
Quarterback Clyde Crutchmer, who had a badly bruised elbow, built up a 24 - 3
lead by hitting on six of seven
passes and running for 50
yards.
He then eluded two tacklers and ran 38
yards to give the Beavers a 20 — 14
lead on what was then the longest
pass play in Rose Bowl history.
The Orange own the 21st - ranked
passing offense in the nation,
led by quarterback Ryan Nassib, who averages more than 301
yards per game.
Michigan State briefly
led when Andrew Maxwell threw a 29 -
yard touchdown
pass to Keith Mumphery in the third quarter prior to Miller's touchdown
pass to Smith.
Two plays later, Jake Coker connected with O.J. Howard on a 51 -
yard touchdown
pass, and Alabama had a
lead it would never again relinquish.
After a one -
yard touchdown run by Spencer Ware to narrow Pittsburgh's
lead to 18 - 16, the Chiefs successfully attempted a two - point conversion on an Alex Smith
pass to Demetrius Harris.
He finishes with more than 9,300
passing yards and 2,400 rushing
yards, and in his final two seasons, he
led MSU to a 19 - 7 record and what will almost certainly be back - to - back top - 25 F / + rankings.
He is the Steelers» alltime leader among
pass receivers in receptions (462),
yards (7,736) and touchdowns (60), and the
leading playoff receiver in NFL history with 12 touchdown catches — three in Super Bowls.
They can
pass the hell out of the ball with Derek Carr throwing darts to Amari Cooper and Michael Crabtree and Latavius Murray looks like the real deal, averaging 4.6
yards per carry this year in
leading the run game.
Thomas again
leads the way, catching 18 of 25
passing - downs
passes for 278
yards.
On Saturday the
lead had changed hands five times when, with three minutes left and Lycoming trailing 19 - 16, Warrior wide receiver Ron Wiest caught a 28 -
yard touchdown
pass from quarterback Ellio Domenick to give his team a 23 - 19 victory.
I'm talking about
passes like the one he threw to Cody Latimer with 14 seconds to go in the first quarter where Manning
led him away from the defender with good ball placement so he could get some extra
yards after the catch.
Juwan Johnson to
lead to nation in receiving
yards / catches / TDs Trace McSorley to
lead the nation in
passing yards / TDs Miles Sanders to
lead the nation in rushing
yards / TDs / YPC
McCaffrey was certainly more versatile — Derrick Henry
led the country with 339 rushing attempts this season, but he only caught 10
passes for 97
yards compared to McCaffrey's 41 for 540 this season, to say nothing of punt and kick returns (McCaffrey also
passed for 39
yards and a pair of touchdowns).
The third went to Jeff Garcia, who
led the Buccaneers to their last playoff appearance in 2007 behind a steady 63.9 - percent
passing for 2,440
yards, 13 touchdowns and four interceptions.
Eastern Washington first took the
lead early in the second quarter, when Adams completed a 24 -
yard touchdown
pass to Ashton Clark.
Rodgers connected with Randall Cobb on a 42 -
yard pass with just six seconds remaining in the half to give the Packers a 14 - 6
lead.
NDSU scored to cut the
lead to 21 - 14 with four minutes left in the third quarter KSU
passed four straight times on the ensuing possession — a 20 -
yard completion, followed by three incompletions and a punt.
He and Peyton Manning combined for 920
yards passing, as the Broncos chased down a double - digit
lead, took a 15 - point advantage of their own, then allowed the Cowboys to whittle it away.
The Bears finished 2017 dead last in
passing yards and Wright
led the team in receiving
yards with just 614
yards.
That proved to be too much time for Hoyer who
led the Browns on a seven - play, 61 -
yard drive, completing
passes to Austin, Gordon and Gary Barnidge.
Steve Smith caught one of those touchdown
passes, just his second of the season, and
led the team with five catches and 120
yards.