List of career achievements by Brett Favre

This is a list of career achievements by retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre.

Career statistics

Regular season

League Leader NFL Record

Playoff statistics

Career awards

Honors and awards

• Favre has won the Associated Press's MVP Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award three times, all in consecutive years (1995, 1996, and 1997; the last shared with Barry Sanders).
• In 1999, he was ranked number 82 on The Sporting News' list of the 100 Greatest Football Players. In 2005, TSN published another special feature honoring the 50 Greatest Quarterbacks. With his career statistics considerably augmented, Favre was ranked number 4, behind Johnny Unitas, Joe Montana and John Elway, and just ahead of previous Packer quarterback legend Bart Starr.
• Favre was named the Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year in 2007.
• Favre has been selected to play in the Pro Bowl ten times in his career.
• Favre is a six-time First- or Second-Team All-Pro selection. (1995, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2007)
• Favre was named to the NFL 1990s All-Decade Team.
• Has received the NFC Offensive Player of the Week honor 12 times.
• Has received the AFC Offensive Player of the Week honor once.
• He is a five-time NFC Player of the Year (1995, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2007)
• Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle declared November 29, 2004 as Brett Favre Day to honor Favre's 200th consecutive NFL regular season start. That night, the Packers defeated the St. Louis Rams on Monday Night Football.
• Men's Health Magazine voted Favre the "Toughest Person in America" in 2003.
• Chris Greicius Celebrity Award from the Make a Wish Foundation in 2007 for "being a true standout, even among the many generous celebrities who help create magical experiences for the kids who wish to meet them."
• United States Sports Academy Male Athlete of the Year Award in 2007 finishing ahead of Tiger Woods and Tom Brady.
• Favre appeared on the cover of the Madden NFL 09 video game, released on August 13, 2008.

Records

Records and milestones

Favre currently possesses most of the well-known NFL career records for quarterbacks, including:

• Most AP NFL MVP awards: 3 (1995, 1996, 1997)
• Most consecutive starts by a quarterback (NFL): 269 (291 including playoffs)
• Most wins by a starting quarterback (NFL) regular season career: 169 (Regular season record: 169-100)
• Most career passing touchdowns: 464
• Most career passing yards: 65,127
• Most career pass completions: 5,682
• Most career pass attempts: 9,209
• Most career interceptions thrown: 310
• Most career games with at least three touchdowns: 65
• A victory recorded in the most different NFL stadiums: 32

• (2nd) Most career playoff pass completions: 438 (Montana, 460)
• (2nd) Most career playoff pass attempts: 721 (Montana, 734)
• (2nd) Most career playoff passing yards: 5,311 (Montana, 5,772)
• (2nd) Most career playoff passing touchdowns: 39 (Montana, 45)
• (Tied 1st) Most career playoff interceptions thrown: 28 (Jim Kelly, 28)
• (Tied 1st) Most career playoff losses as starting QB: 10 (Dan Marino, 10)

Favre's 269 consecutive starts trails only Jim Marshall's 270 consecutive starts as the longest such streak among players at any position.

In the playoffs, Favre stands behind only Joe Montana in pass completions, passing touchdowns, passing yards and passing attempts.

In addition, Favre owns a number of team records, having printed his name into almost every passing category in the annals of Green Bay Packers history. With 42 "come-from-behind" 4th quarter or overtime victories, Brett Favre is second only to John Elway's 47 4th quarter or OT "come-back wins", in NFL history.

Consecutive starts streak

Brett Favre started every game his team played from their game against the Pittsburgh Steelers on September 27, 1992. He is currently in first place for the most consecutive starts by a quarterback in the NFL and one of only five quarterbacks to have started over 100 consecutive games in NFL history. Over the streak he failed to finish a game due to injury on only six occasions. Besides Favre, there is only one other active streak of 100 or more games, that is Peyton Manning. During Favre's consecutive start streak, 409 other quarterbacks started for other teams in the NFL, 11 of them being back-ups to Favre at one point. Among his former backups are: Don Majkowski, Ty Detmer, Mark Brunell, Steve Bono, Doug Pederson, Matt Hasselbeck, Danny Wuerffel, Aaron Brooks, J. T. O'Sullivan, and Aaron Rodgers. Two veteran backups to Favre never started another NFL game: Jim McMahon, and T.J. Rubley. The consecutive starts streak is widely considered one of the most notable streaks in sports, so much so that the Pro Football Hall of Fame has as an exhibit displaying the jersey Favre wore during his record breaking 117th consecutive start as a quarterback, and a section of their website devoted to what the Hall of Fame calls an "Iron Man".

Green Bay Packers records

Lambeau Field Records