Once again, Lamar Jackson was near perfect on Sunday. His incredibly elite final individual box score (21-25 passing for 290 yards, five touchdowns, and no interceptions) yielded a passer rating of 154.6 for the game.
A perfect game, which he accomplished for the fourth time in his career in a Nov. 3 win at Denver, is 158.3. However, Jackson’s five touchdown passes and 0 INT performance in the 35-14 rout of the New York Giants place the reigning NFL MVP into especially rarified air.
Throwing 5+ touchdown passes, while also not getting intercepted, in the same game is an incredible feat. According to a graphic on the NFL Network’s Gameday Highlights show, this was the sixth time that Jackson reached this benchmark.
This puts him above Peyton Manning, Aaron Rodgers, and Ben Roethlisberger, who each did it five times.
.@Lj_era8 got 5 on it! #BALvsNYG | #RavensFlock pic.twitter.com/la1aKpezoc
— NFL GameDay (@NFLGameDay) December 15, 2024
The only two quarterbacks ahead of Lamar on this list are Drew Brees (who rewrote the NFL passing record book) and Tom Brady (who Lamar considers the G.O.A.T.), who have done it eight times.
Putting together another statistical masterpiece today, Jackson has an unreal 34-3 touchdown pass-to-interception ratio for the season. If he can get that up to 42-3 or better this term, it would tie Brady’s 2016 season for the best TD-INT ratio in history, when he put up a 14:1 (28 TDs, 2 INTs)
