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This NFL passing record is in jeopardy: How six QBs could break it in 2021 -- and hit 6K yards

Back in 1960 -- not long before the start of the Super Bowl era -- Hall of Fame quarterback Johnny Unitas threw for 3,099 yards, marking the first time in NFL history a player cleared 3,000 yards in a single season.

Roughly 60 years later, we could soon see a quarterback double that mark.

As we enter the 2021 NFL season, 5,477 stands as the NFL single-season passing record, set in 2013 by a 37-year-old fellow named Peyton Williams Manning with the Denver Broncos.

Now that the league has added a 17th game, that record is in immediate jeopardy and a previously unreachable target of 6,000 yards isn't out of the question.