Dan Marino set a record in 1984 that went untouched for decades.
The Hall of Famer threw for 5,084 yards, which surpassed Dan Fouts’s record of 4,802 set three years earlier. Marino became the NFL’s single-season passing leader in just his second year as a pro. More importantly, he became the first player in league history to cross the 5,000-yard threshold.
Marino was the only member of that club for almost a quarter century, until Drew Brees joined him in 2008. Since then, seven more signal-callers have reached that plateau: Tom Brady (twice), Patrick Mahomes (twice), Peyton Manning, Ben Roethlisberger, Matthew Stafford, Justin Herbert and Jameis Winston.
