![]() ![]() Brees had a pair of 1,000-yard pass-catchers in 2011 (Jimmy Graham and Marques Colston) and Manning also had two in 2013 (Demaryius Thomas and Eric Decker). He might need another two or three to hit quadruple digits in order to help him hit the big 6,000. Mahomes reached 5,250 a season ago with just one 1,000-yard receiver (Travis Kelce). So all it would take to hit 6,000 is the sixth-most passing attempts in NFL history and Mahomes matching a career-best mark in yards per attempt. Brady (2021 and ‘22), Stafford (2012), Herbert (2022) and Drew Bledsoe (1994) have all thrown that many passes in a season before - Stafford and Bledsoe did so in 16 games. If we go off Mahomes’s career-best 8.8 yards per attempt from 2018, it would take him 682 passes, which, while it’s a lofty figure, there’s at least some precedent. That’s eight more attempts than the record Brady set in 2022. ![]() Sizing Up the Race to 6,000 Passing Yards | Sports Illustratedīased on Mahomes’s career average of 8.1 yards per attempt, it would take him 741 passes to crack 6,000. ![]()
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