Ahead of week 15, Matthew Stafford is closing in on yet another milestone in his distinguished NFL career. The Los Angeles Rams quarterback has thrown for 63,163 career passing yards, leaving him just 278 yards shy of passing Philip Rivers (63,440) for 7th place on the all-time Super Bowl Era leaderboard. Only a handful of legends \u2014 Tom Brady, Drew Brees, and Peyton Manning \u2014 sit well ahead at the top of the list.<\/p>\n
Stafford continues to perform at an elite level in 2025. He enters the week 4th in the NFL in passing yards with 3,354, and he\u2019s coming off a dominant outing in a 45\u201317 victory over the Arizona Cardinals, where he threw for 281 yards and orchestrated one of the Rams\u2019 most complete performances of the season.<\/p>\n
The milestone opportunity arrives Sunday as Stafford leads the 10\u20133 Rams, current leaders of the NFC West, into a matchup against his former team, the Detroit Lions, who sit third in the NFC North. With playoff positioning on the line \u2014 and history within reach \u2014 Stafford\u2019s performance looms as one of the key storylines of the week.<\/p>\n
Of course Rivers, 44, made headlines earlier this week with his return for the Indianapolis Colts, so he gets in the game or in a game later this season he and Stafford can go head-to-head and try to reach the 6th spot.<\/p>\n