Rodgers Needs 3,726 Yards to Join NFL’s Elite Passing Club

Rodgers Needs 3,726 Yards to Join NFL's Elite Passing Club

Aaron Rodgers enters what is expected to be his final NFL season sitting 3,726 passing yards short of 70,000 for his career – a threshold reached by only four quarterbacks in league history. Rodgers, who turns 43 in December 2025, carries a total of 66,274 regular-season passing yards into his second season with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

The 70,000-yard mark places a quarterback alongside Tom Brady (89,214), Drew Brees (80,358), Peyton Manning (71,940) and Brett Favre (71,838) – the only players to have cleared it. Rodgers accumulated 59,055 of his yards across 18 seasons in Green Bay, added 3,897 during two years with the New York Jets, and threw for 3,322 in his first season in Pittsburgh. He missed the entire 2023 season through injury.

His recent output suggests the target is within range but not guaranteed. In the 2022 season he passed for 3,695 yards in 17 games, and across his career he has exceeded 3,726 yards in a single season 13 times. The final-season totals of the four members of the 70,000-yard group span a wide band: Brady threw for 4,694 yards in 17 starts in 2022, while Manning managed only 2,245 yards in nine starts in 2015 and Favre 2,509 in 13 starts in 2010. Brees finished with 2,942 yards in 12 starts in 2020.

With a 17-game regular season ahead, Rodgers will need to average roughly 219 passing yards per game to reach the milestone – a rate modestly above his output from his most recent campaign. As of 25 May, DraftKings Sportsbook listed the odds of him reaching 70,000 yards at +200.