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Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford reached a career milestone hitting 60,000 passing yards against the Houston Texans Week 1. Now, just two weeks later, the Los Angeles quarterback is at it again, moving himself into ninth in all-time passing touchdowns.
During the third quarter of LA’s loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, Stafford was able to hit Kyren Williams for a 10-yard touchdown that helped him push his career total to 382 TD passes, moving him past former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan. The veteran QB entered the game needing two touchdowns to reach the high benchmark.
Stafford, 37, is one of two active players in the top 10 on the all-time TD passes leaderboard, with Pittsburgh Steelers QB Aaron Rodgers being the other. Stafford could potentially catch the next quarterback in front of him, however, it would most-likely take him playing at least another season in the NFL as Ben Rolisberger currently sits 36 touchdown passes ahead of him with 418. If Stafford is able to eventually reach the mark, Dan Marino (420) and Philip Rivers (421) would be very close after.
Stafford now sits 10th all-time in career passing yards, as well as ninth in career passing touchdowns. He also has a Super Bowl ring and is known as one of the most clutch and tough quarterbacks to play the game. Stafford spoke recently about what it means to him to be hitting all of these long-term career milestones.
“The cool thing about playing quarterback, and my thought on it is, I can’t throw for any of those yards without every other ten players on the field, ten other guys, doing their jobs and so, it’s really cool I share it with so many people, and so many teammates and a bunch of coaches and, you know, it’s not ”oh, that was a cool year or a cool two years” I mean, it’s been a long time and a lot of people have sacrificed a lot to help me out along the way and I appreciate each and every single one of them. It’s an amazing thing.”
Many argue if Stafford belongs in the NFL Hall of Fame or not, citing his lack of post season success prior to coming to Los Angeles as a major reason to keep him out, but with each new record and career milestone Stafford’s statistics are starting to make the argument against him harder and harder to defend.
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