It took Matthew Stafford a long time to reach a Super Bowl, much longer than it took Patrick Mahomes, but both quarterbacks belong as key stepping stones in the annals of NFL passing history. One such record is the number of passing yards that a quarterback has through “X” career games and Stafford’s name is prominently featured on that list.
But Mahomes is erasing his name every week.
Mahomes is going to career game #107, while Stafford is going into #212. That’s almost twice as long. But it won’t take Mahomes 10 years to erase Stafford’s name from this particular list at this pace: Stafford has the most career passing yards for a QB through games 107-185.