Patriots QB Tom Brady set the NFL record for most touchdowns thrown in a season. The tracker below shows the weekly progress of how he accomplished the feat.
| Dan Marino | Peyton Manning | Tom Brady |
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| Through 16 games, each QB had the following number of touchdowns: | ||
| 48 | 49 | 50 |
| Weekly breakdown of each quarterback's season: | ||||||||||||||||||
| Quarterback | Year | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Total |
| Dan Marino, Dolphins | 1984 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 48 |
| Peyton Manning, Colts | 2004 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 49 |
| Tom Brady, Patriots | 2007 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 50 |
