{"id":5890,"date":"2026-09-23T20:25:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T00:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/?p=5890"},"modified":"2026-09-24T14:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T18:31:15","slug":"matthew-stafford-about-to-reach-65000-career-passing-yards-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/matthew-stafford-about-to-reach-65000-career-passing-yards-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Stafford About To Reach 65,000 Career Passing Yards Mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of week 3, Matthew Stafford of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/team\/los-angeles-rams.php\">Los Angeles Rams<\/a> has 64,998 passing yards during his career. That puts him two passing yards away from reaching the 65,000 level. And Stafford currently ranks 6th in the Super Bowl Era leaderboard for team passing yards. The top 3 are Tom Brady (89,214), Drew Brees (80,358) and Peyton Manning (71,940).<\/p>\n<p>So far this season, Stafford ranks 10th on the list of leaders in yards passing with 482. Stafford comes in in off a 28-6 victory to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/team\/new-york-giants.php\">New York Giants<\/a>. Stafford put together 327 passing yards in the air.<\/p>\n<p>This Sunday night on NBC, the Stafford will bid to reach the mark as his Rams travel to battle the the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/team\/denver-broncos.php\">Denver Broncos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>NFL Most Passing Yards Leaders (Super Bowl Era):<\/h3>\n<p>1. Tom Brady 89,214<br \/>\n2. Drew Brees 80,358<br \/>\n3. Peyton Manning 71,940<br \/>\n4. Brett Favre 71,838<br \/>\n5. Aaron Rodgers 66,682<br \/>\n<strong>6. Matthew Stafford 64,998<\/strong><br \/>\n7. Ben Roethlisberger 64,088<br \/>\n8. Philip Rivers 63,984<br \/>\n9. Matt Ryan 62,792<br \/>\n10. Dan Marino 61,361<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the eve of week 3, Matthew Stafford of the Los Angeles Rams has 64,998 passing yards during his career. That puts him two passing yards away from reaching the 65,000 level. And Stafford currently ranks 6th in the Super Bowl Era leaderboard for team passing yards. The top 3 are Tom Brady (89,214), Drew&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/matthew-stafford-about-to-reach-65000-career-passing-yards-mark\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Matthew Stafford About To Reach 65,000 Career Passing Yards Mark<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"off","neve_meta_content_width":70,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-stats"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.7.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Matthew Stafford About To Reach 65,000 Career Passing Yards Mark<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Matthew Stafford About To Reach 65,000 Career Passing Yards Mark\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/matthew-stafford-about-to-reach-65000-career-passing-yards-mark\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Matthew Stafford About To Reach 65,000 Career Passing Yards Mark\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Matthew Stafford About To Reach 65,000 Career Passing Yards Mark\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/matthew-stafford-about-to-reach-65000-career-passing-yards-mark\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"News | GoFootballAnalytics.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-09-24T00:25:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-09-24T18:31:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jeff Shaw\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jeff Shaw\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Matthew Stafford About To Reach 65,000 Career Passing Yards Mark","description":"Matthew Stafford About To Reach 65,000 Career Passing Yards Mark","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/matthew-stafford-about-to-reach-65000-career-passing-yards-mark\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Matthew Stafford About To Reach 65,000 Career Passing Yards Mark","og_description":"Matthew Stafford About To Reach 65,000 Career Passing Yards Mark","og_url":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/matthew-stafford-about-to-reach-65000-career-passing-yards-mark\/","og_site_name":"News | GoFootballAnalytics.com","article_published_time":"2026-09-24T00:25:41+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-09-24T18:31:15+00:00","author":"Jeff Shaw","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Jeff Shaw","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/matthew-stafford-about-to-reach-65000-career-passing-yards-mark\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/matthew-stafford-about-to-reach-65000-career-passing-yards-mark\/"},"author":{"name":"Jeff Shaw","@id":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/#\/schema\/person\/570c82c793a36b3d80d36096f9b2a971"},"headline":"Matthew Stafford About To Reach 65,000 Career Passing Yards Mark","datePublished":"2026-09-24T00:25:41+00:00","dateModified":"2026-09-24T18:31:15+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/matthew-stafford-about-to-reach-65000-career-passing-yards-mark\/"},"wordCount":151,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/#organization"},"articleSection":["News","Stats"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/matthew-stafford-about-to-reach-65000-career-passing-yards-mark\/","url":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/matthew-stafford-about-to-reach-65000-career-passing-yards-mark\/","name":"Matthew Stafford About To Reach 65,000 Career Passing Yards Mark","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2026-09-24T00:25:41+00:00","dateModified":"2026-09-24T18:31:15+00:00","description":"Matthew Stafford About To Reach 65,000 Career Passing Yards Mark","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/matthew-stafford-about-to-reach-65000-career-passing-yards-mark\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/matthew-stafford-about-to-reach-65000-career-passing-yards-mark\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/matthew-stafford-about-to-reach-65000-career-passing-yards-mark\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Matthew Stafford About To Reach 65,000 Career Passing Yards Mark"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/","name":"News | GoFootballAnalytics.com","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/#organization","name":"GoFootballAnalytics.com","url":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/","sameAs":["https:\/\/twitter.com\/gofbanalytics"],"logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/fb-helmet.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/fb-helmet.jpg","width":1024,"height":1024,"caption":"GoFootballAnalytics.com"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/#\/schema\/person\/570c82c793a36b3d80d36096f9b2a971","name":"Jeff Shaw","description":"Jeff Shaw is an experienced football spotter and statistician with over five years in the business. He is also an author gofootballanalytics. You can reach him at jeff.shaw@gofootballanalytics.com.","url":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/author\/jeffshaw\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5890"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5920,"href":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5890\/revisions\/5920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gofootballanalytics.com\/statsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}