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The first to accomplish this is Tom Brady, quarterback of the New England Patriots.īrady passed for six touchdowns in each game played versus the: Only two quarterbacks in the history of the NFL have thrown 6 or more touchdown passes in three different games.

Drew Brees QB of the New Orleans Saints on.

Nick Foles QB of the Philadelphia Eagles on.

Peyton Manning QB of the Denver Broncos on.

Joe Kapp QB of the Minnesota Vikings on.

George Blanda QB of the Houston Oilers on.

Adrian Burk QB of the Philadelphia Eagles on.

Luckman now shares this record with 7 other players, they are: In this game, Luckman also became the first QB to throw for over 400 yards in a game, finishing with 443. The original record setter is Sid Luckman, the quarterback of the Chicago Bears, who threw seven touchdown passes in a game versus the New York Giants on. The NFL record is 7 passing touchdowns in a game, shared by 8 different quarterbacks.

Brett Favre QB of the New York Jets on.

Steve Young QB of the San Francisco 49ers on.

Joe Montana QB of the San Francisco 49ers on.

Dan Marino QB of the Miami Dolphins on.

Joe Namath QB of the New York Jets on.

Otto Graham QB of the Cleveland Browns on.

Other quarterbacks with one game of six touchdown passes include: The Chiefs own Len Dawson tossed six TD’s in a game versus the Denver Broncos on. Flynn passed for a total of 17 touchdowns in his career.Īs you might expect, there are several quarterbacks on this list that had or are having excellent careers. Matt Flynn, in one of seven career starts, threw six touchdown passes against the Detroit Lions. In week 17 of the 2011 season, a game played on New Year’s Day of 2012, the Packers (with a record of 14-1) rested their starters.

Possibly the most inconceivable is Matt Flynn, who spent most of his career as Aaron Rodgers backup for the Green Bay Packers. Some of the quarterbacks on this short list are players that a person wouldn’t really expect to see, such as Johnny Lujack or Joe Kapp, primarily because they had such short careers, playing only four seasons each.

I should note that a few of these guys are still playing, so it is possible that a second game can be added to their resume. Of the 36 quarterbacks, 25 of them have just one 6+ TD game in their career. Īlthough there have been 49 games with six or more touchdown passes, this has been accomplished by just 36 different quarterbacks. Sammy Baugh then became the first quarterback to pass for six touchdowns per game twice in a career by having his second 6 TD game playing against the Chicago Cardinals on.

As the QB of the Washington Redskins, Slingin’ Sammy threw six touchdowns against the Brooklyn Dodgers on Halloween. The first quarterback to pass for 6 touchdowns in one game is Sammy Baugh. What I have been able to dig up (with limited time and research resources), is that there have been 6 or more passing touchdowns thrown in a game exactly 49 times in the history of the National Football League. So in my opinion, with three home games left in the 2018 season, we need a three-peat performance and I believe a Thursday night primetime game, against the division rival Los Angeles Chargers, would be the perfect atmosphere for a third, six passing touchdown game.

Both of these games were on the road, so it seems to me that Mahomes has been dissing the home fans a little bit here. In week two of this season, Patty threw six touchdown passes versus the Pittsburgh Steelers. Since we’re mostly through the bye week dealing with a mini withdrawal of Chiefs football, and since there is almost never anything written about Patrick Mahomes II, I thought I would touch on one or two little accomplishments he has managed in the first dozen games of his career as the starting quarterback of the Kansas City Chiefs.Īs we all know or if you don’t know you are about to find out, Patty Mahomes threw six touchdown passes last Monday night against the Los Angeles Rams.