WhoDat!656

2. Completion percentage
Current record: Drew Brees, 71.2 percent (2011)
Challenger: Philip Rivers, 73.9 percent

As remarkable as Peyton Manning has been (and his current completion percentage, 71.6, is a notch above Brees’ mark), Rivers has him beat in this category.

Making Rivers’ place atop the chart more impressive is that he opened the season with a 14-of-29 outing. That’s 48.2 percent, hardly foretelling of the success to come. Since then, he’s topped 70 percent in all but one Chargers game and soared past the 80 percent barrier three times, including a 22-of-26 (84.6 percent) performance last Sunday.

3. Passing yards
Current record: Drew Brees, 5,476 (2011)
Challenger: Peyton Manning, 2,565

So … Brees had a pretty good 2011. Manning, as things stand right now, could have an even better 2013.

Manning’s on pace to take down a number of records — yards, passing touchdowns, completions, QB rating. This one might be the most iconic record of the bunch, even though it was erased and rewritten twice during the 2011 season. Tom Brady, with 5,235 yards that year, also passed Dan Marino’s mark of 5,084.

During his team’s 6-1 start, Manning averaged 366.4 yards per game. Stretched out over the full 16-game slate, that would be 5,862 yards, meaning that Manning has a little cushion when compared to Brees’ pace.

Eight in the Box: Single-season records that could fall in 2013 | Audibles - SI.com

"A Veteran is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America" for an amount of "up to and including my life."