NFL Stats Trivia
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This NFL stats trivia quiz is built entirely from the record book: 109 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 lasted until the 199th pick of the 2000 draft, in the sixth round, then threw for 89,214 yards across 23 seasons, the most in NFL history.
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 NFL's single-season passing yards record, 5,477 yards set in 2013?
Peyton Manning
Peyton Manning threw for 5,477 yards in 2013, topping the old record by a single yard, two years after a neck injury had cost him the entire 2011 season.
Q 04Which quarterback has the most 5,000-yard passing seasons, with five?
Drew Brees
Drew Brees passed 5,000 yards in 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2016, yet his team finished 8-8 or 7-9 in three of those five seasons.
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 year after five other quarterbacks were drafted ahead of him; the record then stood for 27 years.
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 against only six incompletions at Oakland on November 3, 2013, and four seasons later was named Super Bowl MVP.
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 going more than 18 seasons without missing a game.
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 NFL's single-season passer rating record of 122.5 in 2011?
Aaron Rodgers
Aaron Rodgers posted a 122.5 rating in 2011 with 45 touchdown passes and six interceptions, then sat out the finale, in which his backup threw six touchdown passes.
Q 11Which quarterback was sacked an NFL-record 76 times in 2002?
David Carr
David Carr, the first draft pick of the expansion Houston Texans, was sacked 76 times as a rookie in 2002 yet still played in all 16 games.
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, and an Indianapolis team that had gone 2-14 the year before finished 11-5 and reached the playoffs.
Q 13Who is the NFL's career rushing leader with 18,355 yards?
Emmitt Smith
Emmitt Smith ran for 18,355 yards, passing Walter Payton in October 2002, in a career that began with a holdout lasting his entire first training camp.
Q 21Which receiver retired with an NFL-record 22,895 receiving yards?
Jerry Rice
Jerry Rice gained 22,895 receiving yards, 5,403 more than runner-up Larry Fitzgerald, after arriving in 1985 from little-known Mississippi Valley State.
Q 22Who set the NFL's single-season receptions record with 149 catches in 2019?
Michael Thomas
Michael Thomas caught 149 passes in 2019, six more than Marvin Harrison's old record, then played only 10 games over the next three seasons because of injuries.
Q 23Which receiver set the NFL's single-season receiving yards record with 1,964 in 2012?
Calvin Johnson
Calvin Johnson gained 1,964 yards in 2012 yet scored only five touchdowns, and his team finished 4-12.
Q 14Who set the NFL's single-season rushing record with 2,105 yards in 1984?
Eric Dickerson
Eric Dickerson ran for 2,105 yards in 1984, passing the 2,003 O. J. Simpson had gained in 1973, though Simpson had played only 14 games to Dickerson's 16.
Q 15Who ran for a single-game record 296 yards in a November 2007 game?
Adrian Peterson
Adrian Peterson, a rookie drafted that April, ran for 296 yards against San Diego on November 4, 2007, beating Jamal Lewis's four-year-old record by a single yard.
Q 16Which running back scored an NFL-record 31 touchdowns in 2006?
LaDainian Tomlinson
LaDainian Tomlinson scored 31 touchdowns in 2006, 28 rushing and three receiving, and threw two more as a passer; the old record of 28 had lasted just one year.
Q 17Which Chiefs running back carried the ball an NFL-record 416 times in 2006?
Larry Johnson
Larry Johnson carried 416 times for Kansas City in 2006, six more than Jamal Anderson's old record, and never again ran for 1,000 yards in a season.
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 in eight of his nine seasons, and retired at 30 while still at his peak.
Q 19Which quarterback set the NFL's single-season quarterback rushing record with 1,206 yards in 2019?
Lamar Jackson
Lamar Jackson ran for 1,206 yards in 2019 and was named MVP in only his second season, after lasting until the final pick of the 2018 first round.
Q 20Which quarterback ran for 14 touchdowns in 2011, then a single-season record for quarterbacks?
Cam Newton
Cam Newton, the first pick of the 2011 draft, ran for 14 touchdowns as a rookie, and Carolina, 2-14 the season before, tripled its win total to six.
Q 24Which receiver caught an NFL-record 21 passes in a single game in 2009?
Brandon Marshall
Brandon Marshall caught 21 passes against Indianapolis on December 13, 2009, one more than Terrell Owens's record from 2000, yet his team lost 28-16.
Q 25Who holds the NFL's single-game receiving yards record with 336, set in an overtime game in 1989?
Flipper Anderson
Flipper Anderson gained 336 yards on 15 catches in an overtime road win on November 26, 1989, about a third of the 44 passes he caught all season.
Q 26Which receiver caught an NFL-record 23 touchdown passes in 2007?
Randy Moss
Randy Moss caught 23 touchdown passes in 2007, his first season in New England, a year after scoring only three for Oakland.
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, starting with an 83-yard score in only his second game as a professional.
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, only then passing Reggie White's 198; his 13 seasons of 10 or more sacks are also a record.
Q 29Which player set the NFL's single-season sack record with 23 in 2025?
Myles Garrett
Myles Garrett reached 23 sacks in the final game of the 2025 season, at Cincinnati, edging past the 22.5 shared by Michael Strahan and T. J. Watt.
Q 30Who recorded an NFL-record seven sacks in a single game in 1990?
Derrick Thomas
Derrick Thomas sacked Seattle's Dave Krieg seven times on November 11, 1990, yet Kansas City still lost the game, 17-16.