{"id":6972,"date":"2025-10-18T10:22:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T10:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/6972\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T10:22:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T10:22:33","slug":"steelers-aaron-rodgers-passes-pittsburgh-great-ben-roethlisberger-for-fifth-on-nfl-career-passing-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/6972\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers&#8217; Aaron Rodgers passes Pittsburgh great Ben Roethlisberger for fifth on NFL career passing list\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s tops among active passers, with the closest on his heels being the Los Angeles Rams&#8217; <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/players\/matthew-stafford\/\" title=\"Matthew Stafford\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Stafford<\/a>, who&#8217;s ninth all time with 61,493 yards ahead of his Week 7 game in London <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/games\/rams-at-jaguars-2025-reg-7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">against<\/a> the Jacksonville Jaguars.<\/p>\n<p>If Rodgers were to play past this season, he would have a shot at possibly catching another familiar name, Brett Favre, in 2026. Favre is fourth with 71,838 yards. Rodgers and Favre were once upon a time teammates with the Green Bay Packers.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this season, Rodgers moved ahead of Favre (508) on the <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/aaron-rodgers-moves-past-brett-favre-509-career-touchdown-pass\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">career touchdowns list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of how Rodgers&#8217; career concludes, he&#8217;s already typed up a first-ballot Hall of Fame r\u00e9sum\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>He added to it with another historical note on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He&#8217;s tops among active passers, with the closest on his heels being the Los Angeles Rams&#8217; Matthew Stafford,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3269,3265,139,3266,73,75,74,1833,3267],"class_list":{"0":"post-6972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-aaron-rodgers","9":"tag-around-the-nfl","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-no-minute","12":"tag-pittsburgh","13":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","14":"tag-pittsburgh-news","15":"tag-pittsburgh-steelers","16":"tag-regular-season"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}