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Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow will put himself in the NFL record book Monday night.
Burrow is close to becoming the NFL’s career leader in graduation percentage once he has enough career pass attempts to qualify.
To qualify for career completion percentage in the NFL Record & Fact Book, a player must have thrown 1,500 passes in their career. Currently, Drew Brees is the NFL’s all-time leader in graduation at 67.69 percent.
But Burrow, whose career completion percentage is 68.48 percent, has thrown 1,488 passes in his NFL career. Once Burrow throws his 12th pass in Monday night’s game against the Bills, he will overtake Brees as the NFL’s all-time greatest. Even if Burrow’s first 12 passes are incomplete Monday night, his career completion percentage would still be 67.93 percent, giving him a comfortable beating of Brees’ record.
All career leaders in graduation percentage are newer quarterbacks. After Burrow and Brees, the other quarterbacks who have completed at least 66 percent of their career passes are Jimmy Garoppolo, Deshaun Watson, Dak Prescott, Justin Herbert, Kyler Murray, Kirk Cousins, Teddy Bridgewater, Patrick Mahomes and Chad Pennington.
But while many quarterbacks today have graduation rates that once would have been record-breaking, Burrow is unique. Once he broke the career percentage record Monday night, he’ll likely own it for years to come.