Matt Stafford makes history on Tuesday against the Seattle Seahawks

Former Georgia Bulldogs quarterback and current Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford just carved his name into the NFL record books. In Tuesday night’s game against their division rival, the Seattle Seahawks, Stafford became the fastest quarterback in NFL history to pass for 50,000 yards, including the postseason. He joins a list of 11 other quarterbacks that includes multiple Hall of Famer’s and potential Hall of Famers. Below is a list of those members of the 50,000 passing yard and the year they joined the club.

Dan Marino – 1996
John Elway – 1998
Brett Favre – 2005
Peyton Manning – 2009
Drew Brees – 2013
Tom Brady – 2014
Eli Manning – 2017
Ben Roethlisberger – 2017
Phillip rivers – 2017
Matt Ryan – 2019
Aaron Rodgers – 2020

Stafford is the first overall pick in the 2009 NFL Draft selected by the Detroit Lions out of Georgia. He spent the first 11 years of his career with the Lions before he was traded in the offseason to his current team, the Los Angeles Rams. In the deal, the Rams received Stafford for their starting quarterback Jared Goff and two first-round draft picks. He left the Rams with 46,017 yards passing with 908 coming in his only three career playoff games.

So far in his first season with the Rams, Stafford entered Tuesday’s game with 3898 yards passing, 33 touchdowns, nine interceptions in a passer rating of 108.4. And right now in the game, he has gone 16 of 23 passing for 176 yards with one touchdown and one interception. 

NFL history made on Tuesday night

The Washington Football Team has been suffering from positive COVID-19 cases within the organization, pushing their matchup against the Philadelphia Eagles to a Tuesday night. On Monday, Washington announced seven more coaches tested positive, causing them to miss the game.

With that comes a bit of history from the Football Team. Since running backs coach Randy Jordan was one of the positive tests, Jennifer King will be on the sideline as the acting coach. She is the second female to be a position coach during a regular-season game, following Callie Brownson. To add on, King will be the first African American female position coach in the history of the NFL.

King is one of two active female assistant coaches, with Lori Locust being an assistant defensive line coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.