Tom Brady eclipsed 4,000 passing yards against the Houston Texans on Sunday, the eighth season he has done so. Brady went into the Sunday Night Football game with 3,912 passing yards, so he needed 88 yards to reach the milestone, and made it shortly after the two-minute warning in the second quarter.
Tom Brady reaches 4,000 yards for 8th time in his career
Peyton Manning and Drew Brees are the only other quarterbacks to throw for 4,000 yards in eight seasons.
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Brady now joins Peyton Manning and Drew Brees as the only players with at least eight 4,000-yard seasons. Manning, who is injured right now and probably isn’t going to reach the milestone this season, has 14 seasons of 4,000 passing yards. Brees has nine seasons having reached the mark, and he’s within striking distance of hitting it again with 3,482 passing yards this year.
Brady entered Week 14 as the league’s second-most productive quarterback, just a handful of yards behind Arizona Cardinals quarterback Carson Palmer. The Patriots came into Sunday with a 10-2 record, first in the AFC East and among the top seeds in the conference.
This season has been filled with milestones for Brady. He threw his 400th career touchdown pass in September, and in October became the fifth player to reach 55,000 passing yards.
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