Coming into Sunday’s matchup against the Chargers, Matt Ryan needed just 207 yards to surpass Peyton Manning’s passing yardage mark through 13 full seasons. This offense has been so shaky of late that it wasn’t a given he’d get there, but he did, and now owns that yardage mark with three-plus games to go in the 2020 season. The play came on a short pass to Ito Smith, and it came in the midst of yet another shaky game for Ryan, who threw his second interception of the day shortly thereafter.
Ryan has been on a collision course with history for a while now, repeatedly breaking by pace marks in yardage, touchdowns, and other statistics with each passing season.