This NFL stats trivia quiz is built entirely from the record book: 60 free questions with answers on the career, single-season and single-game marks that define the league. It covers the passing records (career yards and touchdowns, the 5,477-yard season, the 554-yard game), the rushing and receiving records, the sack and interception leaders, kicking and return records, and a handful of team records like the 72-sack season and the biggest comeback in league history. It is written for fans who argue about numbers: the ones who know that Jerry Rice's totals are absurd but could not tell you who caught 21 passes in one game, or which punter has the longest consecutive-games streak. Difficulty climbs from the marks every fan knows to the ones only record-book readers remember. Every answer was checked against the NFL record lists maintained on Wikipedia, which cite the official NFL Record & Fact Book, and each question links to the page that establishes it, so a disputed number can be traced back to its source.
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Q 01Who is the NFL's career passing yards leader with 89,214 yards?
Tom Brady
Brady's 89,214 yards came over 23 seasons; he also holds the career records for attempts (12,050) and completions (7,753).
Q 02The NFL's career leader in touchdown passes retired with how many?
649
Nobody else has reached 600; Brady also threw the most pass attempts in a season, 733, in his final year at age 45.
Q 03Who holds the single-season passing yards record, 5,477 yards set in 2013?
Peyton Manning
That same 2013 season he threw 55 touchdown passes, another single-season record, in his second year with Denver.
Q 04Which quarterback has the most 5,000-yard passing seasons, with five?
Drew Brees
Brees did it in 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2016; every other quarterback in history has done it once at most.
Q 05Which quarterback was the first to pass for 5,000 yards in a season, in 1984?
Dan Marino
Marino's 5,084 yards in his second season stood as the record for 27 years; Joe Namath had been the first to 4,000 in 1967.
Q 06The single-game passing record of 554 yards was set in 1951 by which Los Angeles Rams quarterback?
Norm Van Brocklin
The 1951 mark has now outlasted every rule change designed to help passers; Van Brocklin shared the Rams' quarterback job with Bob Waterfield that season.
Q 07Which quarterback threw seven touchdown passes with a perfect 158.3 passer rating in a single 2013 game?
Nick Foles
Seven touchdown passes in a game has been done eight times, but only Foles combined it with a perfect rating; Denver's quarterback had also thrown seven in the season opener two months earlier.
Q 08Which quarterback threw the most career interceptions, 336?
Brett Favre
Favre also holds the career fumbles record with 166; the two marks are the price of the most consecutive starts ever by a quarterback.
Q 09The single-season record for interceptions thrown, set in 1962, is how many?
42
They came in a 14-game AFL season for the Houston Oilers, whose quarterback was also the league's placekicker.
Q 10Which quarterback set the single-season passer rating record of 122.5 in 2011?
Aaron Rodgers
Rodgers also holds the career passer rating record at 102.2, a mark one active quarterback has since matched.
Q 11Which quarterback was sacked a record 76 times in the 2002 season?
David Carr
Carr was the first pick of the expansion Houston Texans; he also set the record for fumbles recovered in a season (12) that year, mostly his own.
Q 12Through 2025, who had the highest career completion rate, 68.5% (min. 1,500 attempts)?
Joe Burrow
The single-season mark, 74.4% in 2018, belongs to a Saints quarterback; Burrow passed him on the career list.
Q 13Who is the NFL's career rushing leader with 18,355 yards?
Emmitt Smith
Smith also has the most carries (4,409) and rushing touchdowns (164); he passed Walter Payton in 2002.
Q 21Which quarterback averaged a record 7.0 yards per rushing attempt over his career (minimum 750 carries)?
Michael Vick
Vick gained 6,109 yards on 873 carries; the record among all players with 1,000 carries belongs to 1940s-50s fullback Marion Motley at 5.7.
Q 22How many career receiving yards did Jerry Rice finish with?
22,895
Rice is more than 5,000 yards clear of anyone else, and he also holds the career marks for receptions (1,549), receiving touchdowns (197) and total touchdowns (208).
Q 23Who set the single-season receptions record with 149 catches in 2019?
Michael Thomas
Thomas broke Marvin Harrison's 143 from 2002; his 9.31 catches per game that year is also a record.
Q 14Whose 2,105 rushing yards in 1984 remain the single-season record?
Eric Dickerson
Dickerson did it in his second season; a year earlier he had set the rookie record with 1,808 yards, which still stands.
Q 15Who ran for a single-game record 296 yards in a November 2007 game?
Adrian Peterson
Peterson was a rookie; he reached 1,000 career yards in eight games, the fastest ever.
Q 16LaDainian Tomlinson's record-setting 2006 season produced how many total touchdowns?
31
Twenty-eight of them came on the ground, also a record, and his 186 points are the most any player has scored in a season.
Q 17Which running back holds the record for most carries in a season, 416 in 2006?
Larry Johnson
Johnson's Chiefs workload came in the same season Tomlinson was scoring 31 touchdowns; James Wilder Sr. still holds the record for combined rushes and receptions (492).
Q 18Which running back averaged a record 104.3 rushing yards per game over his career?
Jim Brown
Brown led the league in rushing eight times in nine seasons and retired at 29 to act in films.
Q 19Which quarterback set the single-season quarterback rushing record with 1,206 yards in 2019?
Lamar Jackson
Jackson was the unanimous MVP that season and has since become the career rushing leader among quarterbacks with more than 6,500 yards.
Q 20Which quarterback holds the career record for rushing touchdowns by a QB, 79 through 2025?
Josh Allen
Allen and Jalen Hurts share the single-season quarterback record with 15 rushing scores each in 2023.
Q 24Calvin Johnson's single-season receiving yards record, set in 2012, stands at how many yards?
1,964
He fell 36 yards short of 2,000 despite Detroit going 4-12; he also holds the record for receiving yards in a regulation game, 329.
Q 25Which receiver caught a single-game record 21 passes in a 2009 game?
Brandon Marshall
Marshall did it for Denver against Indianapolis; he is also one of only four players with two 15-catch games.
Q 26Who holds the single-game receiving yards record with 336, set in an overtime game in 1989?
Flipper Anderson
Anderson's Rams beat New Orleans in overtime; the regulation-game record is Calvin Johnson's 329 in 2013.
Q 27Randy Moss's 2007 season set the single-season receiving touchdown record at how many?
23
Moss broke Jerry Rice's 22 from 1987, and Rice needed only 12 games that strike-shortened year; Moss also holds the rookie record with 17 in 1998.
Q 28Which 1930s-40s Green Bay end led the NFL in touchdown catches a record nine seasons?
Don Hutson
Hutson also led the league in receptions eight times and receiving yards seven times, records that have survived 80 years.
Q 29Who is the NFL's official career sack leader with 200?
Bruce Smith
Smith reached the round number in his 19th and final season; he had 13 seasons of 10 or more sacks, another record.
Q 30Which player set the single-season sack record with 23 in 2025?
Myles Garrett
Garrett broke the 22.5 shared by Michael Strahan (2001) and T. J. Watt (2021).