While his 7 Super Bowl rings tell the ultimate story of winning, Tom Brady's journey from a 199th pick to the owner of virtually every major passing record is a saga defined by astonishing longevity, unprecedented volume, and clutch playoff mastery that redefined the quarterback position.
Key Takeaways
- Tom Brady completed 8,151 of 12,347 pass attempts for a 66.0% completion percentage in his regular season career
- Tom Brady accumulated 89,214 passing yards over 318 regular season games, averaging 280.7 yards per game
- Tom Brady threw 649 passing touchdowns in the regular season, the most in NFL history
- Tom Brady rushed for 1,815 yards on 1,130 carries in regular season career, averaging 1.6 yards per carry
- Tom Brady scored 44 rushing touchdowns in regular season
- Tom Brady fumbled 221 times in regular season, recovering 93
- Tom Brady appeared in 48 playoff games, starting all
- Tom Brady passed for 13,400 yards in playoffs, most all-time
- Tom Brady threw 88 playoff passing touchdowns, NFL record
- Tom Brady played in 10 Super Bowls, winning 7
- Tom Brady threw 15 Super Bowl touchdown passes, tied for most
- Tom Brady completed 277 of 432 passes for 3,039 yards in Super Bowls
- Tom Brady earned 5 Super Bowl MVP awards, most all-time
- Tom Brady won 3 NFL MVP awards in 2007, 2010, 2017
- Tom Brady was First-Team All-Pro 6 times: 2007, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Tom Brady crafted an unmatched career defined by historic longevity and championship dominance.
Awards;,
- Tom Brady earned 5 Super Bowl MVP awards, most all-time
- Tom Brady won 3 NFL MVP awards in 2007, 2010, 2017
- Tom Brady was First-Team All-Pro 6 times: 2007, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
- Tom Brady made 15 Pro Bowls
- Tom Brady won Offensive Player of the Year 3 times: 2007, 2010, 2017
- Tom Brady was NFL Comeback Player of the Year in 2009
- Tom Brady earned Bert Bell Award twice: 2007, 2010
- Tom Brady won Sportsman of the Year from Sports Illustrated in 2017
- Tom Brady was Maxwell Award winner in college 1999, NFL extension
- Tom Brady led AFC in passing yards 5 times, All-Conference honors implied
- Tom Brady named to NFL 2000s and 2010s All-Decade Teams
- Tom Brady won 7 Super Bowl rings, most for any player
Awards;, Interpretation
Tom Brady's career reads like a mathematical proof against the very concept of a ceiling, relentlessly converting his unprecedented longevity into a mountain of hardware that left both his peers and history books perpetually behind him.
Playoff Stats;,
- Tom Brady appeared in 48 playoff games, starting all
- Tom Brady passed for 13,400 yards in playoffs, most all-time
- Tom Brady threw 88 playoff passing touchdowns, NFL record
- Tom Brady had 40 playoff wins, most in NFL history
- Tom Brady's playoff completion percentage was 63.2% on 4,477 attempts
- Tom Brady threw 42 interceptions in playoffs
- Tom Brady's playoff passer rating was 88.7 career
- Tom Brady had 35 consecutive playoff starts with a win streak record at start
- Tom Brady threw for 3,643 yards in 2018 playoffs run to Super Bowl
- Tom Brady had 15 playoff games with 300+ passing yards
- Tom Brady's playoff rushing yards totaled 1,004 on 276 carries
- Tom Brady scored 9 rushing TDs in playoffs
- Tom Brady had 6 playoff 400+ yard games
- Tom Brady's longest playoff pass was 99 yards
- Tom Brady threw 4 TDs in 6 straight playoff games in 2003-04 run
- Tom Brady had 24 playoff 4th quarter comebacks
- Tom Brady's playoff sacks taken: 143 for 987 yards lost
- Tom Brady completed 61.7% under pressure in playoffs career
- Tom Brady had 88 TDs vs 42 INTs playoff ratio of 2.10
- Tom Brady threw for 505 yards in AFC Championship 2012 vs Ravens playoffs
- Tom Brady's playoff passer rating in wins was 98.5
- Tom Brady rushed for 166 yards in 2001 playoffs Snow Bowl game
- Tom Brady started 49 playoff games, 35-14 record
Playoff Stats;, Interpretation
Tom Brady's playoff statistics are a masterclass in sustained, high-stakes excellence, painting him not as a quarterback who merely participated in history but as one who relentlessly authored it, wielding his 88-42 touchdown-interception ratio like a sculptor's chisel to carve out 40 victories and a legacy that towers over the sport.
Records
- Tom Brady holds most regular season wins by QB 251
Records Interpretation
In a career that often felt like a cheat code, Tom Brady's 251 regular-season wins aren't just a record; they're a two-decade-long argument against ever betting against him.
Records;,
- Tom Brady holds NFL record for most playoff wins by a QB with 35
- Tom Brady holds record for most passing TDs in NFL history with 649 regular + playoffs 737 total
- Tom Brady holds record for most Super Bowl wins by QB with 7
- Tom Brady set record for most 50+ start seasons with 23
- Tom Brady holds record for most 4,000-yard passing seasons with 14
- Tom Brady set single-season TD pass record with 50 in 2007
- Tom Brady holds playoff passing yards record 13,400
- Tom Brady has most career game-winning drives with 58
- Tom Brady holds record for oldest QB to win Super Bowl at 43 in LV
- Tom Brady set record for most pass attempts in a season 687 in 2015
- Tom Brady holds most consecutive starts by QB with 283 regular + playoffs
- Tom Brady has most 300-yard passing games with 91
- Tom Brady holds playoff TD passes record 88
- Tom Brady set Super Bowl passing yards single-game record 505 in LII
- Tom Brady has most postseason starts 49
- Tom Brady holds record for most seasons with 30+ TD passes: 11
- Tom Brady set record for comeback wins 49 as starter
Records;, Interpretation
Tom Brady’s career is the statistical equivalent of him looking at the NFL record book, sighing, and deciding to just write his own.
Regular Season Passing;,
- Tom Brady completed 8,151 of 12,347 pass attempts for a 66.0% completion percentage in his regular season career
- Tom Brady accumulated 89,214 passing yards over 318 regular season games, averaging 280.7 yards per game
- Tom Brady threw 649 passing touchdowns in the regular season, the most in NFL history
- Tom Brady had 212 interceptions in his regular season career
- Tom Brady's regular season passer rating was 97.6, second all-time
- Tom Brady was sacked 555 times for a loss of 4,384 yards in the regular season
- Tom Brady had 376 games with 200+ passing yards in regular season
- Tom Brady's single-season regular season passing yardage high was 5,316 in 2011
- Tom Brady threw for 4,551 yards as a rookie in 2000 with New England Patriots
- Tom Brady led the NFL in passing yards four times in regular season: 2007, 2010, 2011, 2017
- Tom Brady's career regular season adjusted net yards per attempt was 7.02
- Tom Brady had 91 regular season games with 300+ passing yards
- Tom Brady threw 541 touchdown passes with the Patriots in regular season
- Tom Brady's regular season passing yards after catch averaged 1,200+ per season late career
- Tom Brady completed 70.0% or better in 12 regular seasons
- Tom Brady had 4,806 passing yards in 2007 regular season MVP year
- Tom Brady threw 50 touchdown passes in 2007 regular season, NFL record at time
- Tom Brady's regular season air yards total exceeded 60,000 career
- Tom Brady had 1,768 pass attempts without a sack in stretches during regular season career
- Tom Brady led NFL in completion percentage three times in regular season: 2009, 2010, 2014
- Tom Brady threw for 4,694 yards in 2020 regular season with Buccaneers
- Tom Brady's regular season passing TDs per game averaged 2.04
- Tom Brady had 28 regular season games with 4+ passing TDs
- Tom Brady completed 67.2% of passes under pressure in regular season career
- Tom Brady threw 3,114 passes of 20+ yards in regular season
- Tom Brady's regular season passer rating in 4th quarter was 100.2 career
- Tom Brady had 5,907 completions to wide receivers in regular season
- Tom Brady threw for 1,937 yards in final regular season with Buccaneers 2022
- Tom Brady's regular season adjusted yards per attempt led NFL in 2007 at 9.25
- Tom Brady had 12,347 pass attempts, 2nd most in NFL history regular season
Regular Season Passing;, Interpretation
Through a relentless twenty-three-year barrage of precisely delivered footballs, Tom Brady masterfully weaponized statistics—transforming cold numbers into warm championship rings and an unassailable legacy as the greatest to ever play.
Regular Season Rushing;,
- Tom Brady rushed for 1,815 yards on 1,130 carries in regular season career, averaging 1.6 yards per carry
- Tom Brady scored 44 rushing touchdowns in regular season
- Tom Brady fumbled 221 times in regular season, recovering 93
- Tom Brady had 1,599 rushing yards with Patriots, 216 with Buccaneers in regular season
- Tom Brady's longest regular season rush was 21 yards
- Tom Brady rushed for 100+ yards in 0 regular season games, but had 37 games with 10+ yards
- Tom Brady averaged 4.9 yards per carry in 2006 regular season rushing
- Tom Brady had 287 first downs rushing in regular season career
- Tom Brady fumbled 14 times on rushes in 2018 regular season
- Tom Brady rushed 39 times for 84 yards in rookie 2000 regular season
- Tom Brady's regular season rushing TDs included 5 in 2009-2010 span
- Tom Brady had 1,130 regular season rushing attempts, 3rd among QBs
- Tom Brady gained 751 rushing yards after contact in regular season
- Tom Brady's regular season fumble recovery rate was 42.1%
- Tom Brady rushed for 28 yards in Super Bowl LV regular season lead-up context
- Tom Brady had 44 regular season rushing TDs, tied for 5th among QBs
- Tom Brady's 2022 regular season rushing yards totaled 216 in 17 games
- Tom Brady scrambled for 15 first downs in 2017 regular season
- Tom Brady lost 1,200+ yards to sacks in regular season fumble contexts
- Tom Brady had 1.6 yards per carry average across 23 regular seasons
Regular Season Rushing;, Interpretation
While Tom Brady's rushing stats—featuring a glacial 1.6 yards per carry, 44 improbable touchdowns, and a fumble tally that would make a butterfingered running back blush—prove he was no scrambler, they masterfully illustrate his career-long, ruthless calculus of taking the three-inch quarterback sneak over the risky three-yard scramble.
Super Bowl Stats;,
- Tom Brady played in 10 Super Bowls, winning 7
- Tom Brady threw 15 Super Bowl touchdown passes, tied for most
- Tom Brady completed 277 of 432 passes for 3,039 yards in Super Bowls
- Tom Brady won Super Bowl MVP 5 times: XXXVI, XXXVIII, XLIX, LI, LV
- Tom Brady's Super Bowl passer rating was 90.3 career
- Tom Brady threw 7 Super Bowl interceptions in 10 games
- Tom Brady threw for 505 yards and 3 TDs in Super Bowl LII loss
- Tom Brady had 3 Super Bowl wins with zero INTs thrown
- Tom Brady rushed for 143 yards in Super Bowls career
- Tom Brady scored 3 rushing TDs in Super Bowls
- Tom Brady's longest Super Bowl pass was 62 yards to Gronkowski in SB LI
- Tom Brady completed 73.1% in Super Bowl XXXVI win
- Tom Brady threw 4 TDs in Super Bowl LI comeback from 28-3 deficit
- Tom Brady had 10 Super Bowl starts without a rushing TD until LV
- Tom Brady was sacked 25 times in Super Bowls for 166 yards lost
- Tom Brady threw for 3,039 Super Bowl yards, 2nd most all-time
- Tom Brady had 2 Super Bowl game-winning drives in career
- Tom Brady completed 64.1% of Super Bowl passes under pressure
- Tom Brady threw 15 TDs vs 7 INTs in Super Bowl play
- Tom Brady won Super Bowl LV MVP with 3 TDs vs Chiefs
Super Bowl Stats;, Interpretation
Tom Brady’s Super Bowl stats read like a merciless, decade-spanning flex where he routinely treated the biggest game of the year like his personal backyard, complete with enough comebacks, MVPs, and late-game heroics to give every other quarterback an inferiority complex for life.
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