By The Sporting News Archives

March 12, 2000

Drew Bledsoe and Brett Favre appear to be the only active quarterbacks with the numbers and relative youth to take a run at Dan Marino's monstrous career records for attempts, completions, yards and touchdown passes.

Assuming Bledsoe, 28, and Favre, 30, play until they are 38 (Marino's age of retirement), they both appear to have a decent shot at surpassing at least a few of Marino's records. Of course, that premise is based on Bledsoe and Favre playing at a high level into their late 30s. As Marino himself proved last season, there is no guarantee of that.

		BLEDSOE THROUGH 1999 SEASON			BLEDSOE CAREER PROJECTIONS			PER SEASON
	MARINO	STATS	PER GM.	PER SEA.	17-YR.	242-GM.	AGE 38
Seasons	17	7			17	16	18	18
Games	242	106			266	242	282
Attempts	8358	3921	37	560	9839	8952	10431	403
Completions	4967	2192	21	313	5501	5004	5832	252
Yards	61361	25966	245	3709	65160	59281	69079	3218
Touchdowns	420	147	1	21	369	336	391	25
		FAVRE THROUGH 1999 SEASON			FAVRE CAREER PROJECTIONS			PER SEASON
	MARINO	STATS	PER GM.	PER SEA.	17-YR.	242-GM.	AGE 38
Seasons	17	9			17	17	17	17
Games	242	129			257	242	257
Attempts	8358	4352	34	484	8670	8164	8670	501
Completions	4967	2659	21	295	5297	4988	5297	289
Yards	61361	30894	239	3433	61549	57956	61549	3808
Touchdowns	420	235	2	26	468	441	468	23

*Indicates stats needed per season to reach Marino's career numbers
Bold numbers indicate statistics which would set new NFL records

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