{"id":159742,"date":"2025-09-21T18:06:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T18:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/159742\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T18:06:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T18:06:18","slug":"steelers-aaron-rodgers-passes-former-packers-teammate-brett-favre-on-nfls-career-touchdown-pass-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/159742\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers’ Aaron Rodgers passes former Packers teammate Brett Favre on NFL’s career touchdown pass list"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Teammates for three seasons, Aaron Rodgers<\/a>\u00a0has passed Brett Favre in the NFL<\/a> record book after Rodgers passed Favre into fourth place for the most career touchdown passes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rodgers and Favre entered Sunday tied for fourth all time with 508 career touchdown passes. Rodgers, who tied Favre last week on a 9-yard pass to DK Metcalf<\/a>, passed his former teammate on a 12-yard touchdown pass to Metcalf with 13:49 left in the first half of Sunday’s game against the Patriots.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Favre, who was teammates with Rodgers from 2005-07, held the NFL record for touchdown passes at the time of his retirement. A 2016 Hall of Fame inductee, Favre’s career highlights include a Super Bowl<\/a> win and three consecutive league MVPs from 1995-97.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2005, the Packers<\/a> drafted Rodgers to serve as Favre’s eventual successor. Rodgers’ run as the Packers’ starting quarterback started in 2008 and ran through the 2022 season. Rodgers also won a Super Bowl<\/a> in addition to four league MVPs during his years in Green Bay.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Most career touchdown passes\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It’s just a longevity achievement,” Rodgers recently said when asked about passing Favre,\u00a0via The Athletic<\/a>. “A lot of guys I’ve thrown touchdown passes to are from a number of teams now. A lot of guys are a part of that. Some touchdowns, you make exceptional plays. Some, the scheme is so good, like the one to Jaylen (Warren) in (Week 1), all I got to do is not screw it up. Sometimes you throw a short one to a guy and he goes 60. It goes in the column as the same.<\/p>\n

“There’s been a lot of guys involved in that, including the guys blocking, the guys calling the plays. Every now and then I made some special throws that led to touchdowns, but I’ve been playing a long time, and it’s a longevity thing. I’m proud of it, but not a big deal.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images Teammates for three seasons, Aaron Rodgers\u00a0has passed Brett Favre in the NFL record book after Rodgers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[1754,12660,83284,49,48,1775,1730,19210,3150,514,83285,9220,12662,949,82,67860,12486],"class_list":["post-159742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-aaron-rodgers","tag-ben-roethlisberger","tag-brett-favre","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dk-metcalf","tag-green-bay-packers","tag-matt-ryan","tag-matthew-stafford","tag-nfl","tag-nfls-career-touchdown-pass-list","tag-peyton-manning","tag-philip-rivers","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-sports","tag-td","tag-tom-brady"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}