Tom BradyBrady's Seven(teen)

Tom Brady won seven Super Bowls. That is the number everybody knows. This report is about a different number: seventeen. That is how many all-time NFL records he holds by himself. Nobody ties him on any of them.

We wanted to answer one simple question about each record: will anybody ever catch him?Not “is he the greatest”, because that argument never ends. Just: how far ahead is he, and is anyone playing today actually gaining on him?

To answer it, we built a score. Then, to be fair, we gave every record holder in the league the same test, on 53 different records. Brady scored 7.5. Jerry Rice, the only other player anywhere close, scored 3.2. Nobody else got above 1.3.

Here are the seventeen. Next to each one is the second-best number in the history of the NFL. Look at the gaps. Some are tiny. Some are an entire second career.

Every record ends up with one of three verdicts:

One more thing before we go on. Everything in this report is the model’s answer about Brady. If you want the same math on any other player, the Player Calculator does it for you: pick a career to chase and a player to chase it, and it shows the gap on every record they share, how fast the chaser is gaining, and how old he’d be when he got there.