10 NFL records with a good chance to fall in 2020
By Matt Conner
Most Passing Yards in Single Season
The nine top spots on the NFL’s single-season passing yards list have all happened in the last decade. Three of them happened in 2018 and 2019. It stands to reason, then, that the trend would continue and that someone—even multiple players—could eclipse Peyton Manning‘s record of 5,477 passing yards set back in 2013.
The Denver Broncos went to the Super Bowl the year that Manning set the record, proof that the team’s offense was nearly impossible to overcome with Manning at the helm. In 2013, Manning would be the first to enter the 50/5,000 club with 55 touchdowns and nearly 5,500 passing yards. Only Patrick Mahomes has reached those same numbers in a single season, and Manning’s stat sheet that year might be the single finest season by a quarterback in NFL history.
With a 80.9 total QBR that season, Manning completed over 68 percent of his passes and threw only 10 interceptions in a year that cemented him in the conversation for the NFL’s best quarterback ever.
Looking ahead to 2020, Mahomes certainly has the playmakers around him to beat Manning’s seven-year-old mark but he’s not the only one. Drew Brees is the career leader in passing yards and New Orleans added Emmanuel Sanders to the mix to give the Saints offense even more firepower. From Jared Goff and the Rams to Tom Brady and the Bucs to the return of Big Ben with the Steelers, there are plenty of other candidates to also consider. Manning’s mark is impressive but it’s not ridiculous in that it can’t be touched. It can and it will and it could happen in 2020.