NFL Stats Trivia
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This NFL stats trivia quiz is built entirely from the record book: 59 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
Tom Brady threw for 89,214 yards over 23 seasons and also holds the career records for pass attempts (12,050) and completions (7,753).
Q 02The NFL's career leader in touchdown passes retired with how many?
649
649 is the total: nobody else has reached 600, and the same passer set the single-season attempts record of 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
Peyton Manning threw for 5,477 yards in 2013, his second season in Denver, and added 55 touchdown passes, another single-season record.
Q 04Which quarterback has the most 5,000-yard passing seasons, with five?
Drew Brees
Drew Brees passed for 5,000 yards in 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2016; his 5,476 yards in 2011 were then the single-season record.
Q 05Which quarterback was the first to pass for 5,000 yards in a season, in 1984?
Dan Marino
Dan Marino threw for 5,084 yards in 1984, his second season, a record that stood 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
Norm Van Brocklin threw for 554 yards against the New York Yanks on September 28, 1951, while sharing the Rams' quarterback job with Bob Waterfield.
Q 07Which quarterback threw seven touchdown passes with a perfect 158.3 passer rating in a single 2013 game?
Nick Foles
Nick Foles threw seven touchdown passes with a perfect 158.3 rating at Oakland on November 3, 2013, the only seven-touchdown game ever paired with a perfect passer rating.
Q 08Which quarterback threw the most career interceptions, 336?
Brett Favre
Brett Favre threw 336 interceptions and also holds the career fumbles record with 166, the price of a record 297 consecutive regular-season starts at quarterback.
Q 09The single-season record for interceptions thrown, set in 1962, is how many?
42
42 is the record, thrown in a 14-game AFL season for the 1962 Houston Oilers by a quarterback who also served as the team's placekicker.
Q 10Which quarterback set the single-season passer rating record of 122.5 in 2011?
Aaron Rodgers
Aaron Rodgers posted a 122.5 passer rating in 2011 on 45 touchdown passes against six interceptions, and won his first MVP award that season.
Q 11Which quarterback was sacked a record 76 times in the 2002 season?
David Carr
David Carr, the first draft pick of the expansion Houston Texans, was sacked 76 times as a rookie in 2002, the most ever in one season.
Q 12Which quarterback set the rookie record for passing yards, 4,374 in 2012?
Andrew Luck
Andrew Luck threw for 4,374 yards as a 2012 rookie with Indianapolis, breaking the rookie record set just one year earlier.
Q 13Who is the NFL's career rushing leader with 18,355 yards?
Emmitt Smith
Emmitt Smith ran for 18,355 yards and also holds the records for carries (4,409) and rushing touchdowns (164); he passed Walter Payton in October 2002.
Q 21How many career receiving yards did Jerry Rice finish with?
22,895
22,895 yards: Jerry Rice finished more than 5,000 clear of anyone else and also holds the career marks for receptions (1,549), receiving touchdowns (197) and total touchdowns (208).
Q 22Who set the single-season receptions record with 149 catches in 2019?
Michael Thomas
Michael Thomas caught 149 passes in 2019, breaking the 143 Marvin Harrison had in 2002; his 9.31 catches per game that year is also a record.
Q 23Calvin Johnson's single-season receiving yards record, set in 2012, stands at how many yards?
1,964
1,964 yards, 36 short of 2,000, came while Detroit went 4-12 in 2012; Calvin Johnson also holds the record for receiving yards in a regulation game, 329.
Q 14Who set the single-season rushing record with 2,105 yards in 1984?
Eric Dickerson
Eric Dickerson ran for 2,105 yards in 1984, his second season, a year after setting the rookie record with 1,808 yards.
Q 15Who ran for a single-game record 296 yards in a November 2007 game?
Adrian Peterson
Adrian Peterson, then a rookie, ran for 296 yards against San Diego on November 4, 2007, in only his eighth NFL game.
Q 16LaDainian Tomlinson's record-setting 2006 season produced how many total touchdowns?
31
31 touchdowns: 28 rushing, itself a record, plus three receiving, worth a single-season record 186 points.
Q 17Which running back holds the record for most carries in a season, 416 in 2006?
Larry Johnson
Larry Johnson carried 416 times for Kansas City in 2006; James Wilder Sr. holds the record for combined rushes and receptions in a season, 492.
Q 18Which running back averaged a record 104.3 rushing yards per game over his career?
Jim Brown
Jim Brown averaged 104.3 rushing yards per game, led the NFL in rushing eight times in nine seasons, and left football after the 1965 season to act in films.
Q 19Which quarterback set the single-season quarterback rushing record with 1,206 yards in 2019?
Lamar Jackson
Lamar Jackson ran for 1,206 yards in 2019, the most ever by a quarterback in one season, and was the unanimous NFL MVP that year.
Q 20Which quarterback ran for 14 touchdowns in 2011, then a single-season record for quarterbacks?
Cam Newton
Cam Newton ran for 14 touchdowns as a Carolina rookie in 2011, then a single-season record for quarterbacks, while also passing for 4,051 yards.
Q 24Which receiver caught a single-game record 21 passes in a 2009 game?
Brandon Marshall
Brandon Marshall caught 21 passes for Denver against Indianapolis on December 13, 2009, breaking the single-game record of 20 set by Terrell Owens in 2000.
Q 25Who holds the single-game receiving yards record with 336, set in an overtime game in 1989?
Flipper Anderson
Flipper Anderson gained 336 yards for the Rams in an overtime road win on November 26, 1989; the regulation-game record is 329 by Calvin Johnson in 2013.
Q 26Randy Moss's 2007 season set the single-season receiving touchdown record at how many?
23
23 touchdown catches broke the 22 Jerry Rice had in 1987, when Rice needed only 12 games of a strike-shortened year; Randy Moss also holds the rookie record with 17 in 1998.
Q 27Which end led the NFL in touchdown catches a record nine seasons?
Don Hutson
Don Hutson led the league in touchdown catches nine times between 1935 and 1944, and also led in receptions eight times and receiving yards seven times.
Q 28Who is the NFL's official career sack leader with 200?
Bruce Smith
Bruce Smith reached 200 sacks in his 19th and final season, 2003, and had 13 seasons of 10 or more sacks, another record.
Q 29Which 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).
Q 30Who recorded a single-game record seven sacks in a 1990 game?
Derrick Thomas
Derrick Thomas sacked Seattle's Dave Krieg seven times on November 11, 1990, but Krieg escaped an eighth and threw the winning touchdown as time expired.