In this discussion, we delve into the fascinating realm of quarterback scoring statistics, shedding light on the standing of various prominent players throughout the annals of American football history. Our primary focus is on the average number of touchdowns per game achieved by elite quarterbacks, a metric that serves as an illuminating gauge of their productivity and impact on the field. We meticulously analyze the performance of both contemporary and historical quarterbacks, juxtaposing their scoring capabilities to ascertain who reigns supreme in this regard. Notably, we reveal that Josh Allen currently leads the pack with an impressive average of 2.36 touchdowns per game, closely followed by Patrick Mahomes and Aaron Rodgers. Through this exploration, we underscore not only the evolution of quarterback performance but also the enduring significance of scoring in the sport.

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If you're a football fan that loves offense, then you gotta love the guy that gets every snap of the ball, touches the ball every, almost every play besides the center.

He is the guy that touches that leather the most.

But how many times does our favorite quarterback score and where do they rank on the all time list?

We're gonna come up with those statistics and more coming up in just a moment.

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That's going to make sense here in just a moment because it's Wednesday and we love to go into some of the statistics and infographics and just talk about some good common football stats.

And today we really have a great one for you.

We're going to talk about quarterbacks and how many scores per game average the best quarterbacks in the history of the game have had.

We're going to rank them against each other and go way back in time to the present day to look at some of these guys and how they do.

That's a good comparison of how productive a quarterback is is by how they score score themselves either by the pass, a run or even catching a pass as we have in a few occasions.

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Having some Sterling coffee here, talking about some NFL quarterbacks in their stats.

We have some really dynamic quarterbacks.

You know, you talk about Lamar Jackson and Patrick Mahomes.

Aaron Rodgers is still playing Josh Allen, Russell Wilson, Jalen Hurts, Matthew Stafford and Jared Goff.

How did these guys stack up in the history of the game as far as scoring goes?

And I thought it was kind of an interesting thing to do.

So what I did is I took some of the top rushing quarterbacks with rushing touchdowns and I did all this on stat Head.

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This is all these statistics come from them.

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ProFootball Reference.com now the quarterbacks, what I did is I took the top 20 rushing touchdown scorers as a quarterback.

I also took the top 20 passers and I sort of mangled them together, got rid of some drop some of the guys that really weren't in contention and I wanted to see how many games they played, how many rushing and pass receiving touchdowns plus their touchdown throws that they've had over their career and figure out how many touchdowns per game these guys are valued at and see who came out on top.

Is really kind of interesting how it came out.

Now one of the front runners, you know, the leading touchdown scorer of quarterbacks all time is Cam Newton.

He had 76 rushing touchdowns.

He had 194 passing touchdowns and 148 games.

Well, that averages out to 1.82 touchdowns per game.

But that was a pretty good place to start.

And look at that and I'm thinking.

Boy, that might be a really good number that somebody's going to have trouble beating, you know.

Well, actually, actually puts him at 11th on our chart.

He's an 11th place of quarterbacks that I looked at.

And these are very unofficial because there might be some quarterbacks that I missed because I, I told you, I just did the top 20 of each.

Matthew Stafford is in 14th with 1.76.

Still playing.

Jared Goff is in 16th, 1.75 touchdowns.

Per game over his career in his 134 games he's played.

Otto Graham is right behind him at number 17 with a 1.746.

Then we have followed by Dante Culpepper.

Brett Favre, 1.72 scores per game.

Matt Ryan, Steve Young had 1.62, ends up being 22nd on our list.

Eli Manning is in 23rd, 1.58.

Fran Tarkenton the New York Giants and Minnesota Vikings.

Quarterback 1.52 touchdowns per game.

Now Randall Cunningham was an interesting one because we always think about him as a running quarterback that really had a live arm.

In 161 games he had 35 rushing touchdowns and 207 passing.

1.503, just over one and a half touchdowns per game.

John Elway 1.42 comes in 28th on our list.

Steve McNair is 30th with 1.31.

He's just behind ya.

Tittle had 1.37.

Terry Bradshaw was 27th with 1.45.

Cordell Stewart, slash.

One hundred and twenty five games, 43 touchdowns scored with his legs, 77 with the pass, 0.96.

Not even a touchdown per game for him.

Well, those are the the guys that are down near the bottom now you're all asking yourselves, okay, who could be up at the top?

I already told you.

Jalen Hurts is in 12th place with 1.81.

He is behind Cam Newton and just behind him.

Russell Wilson is just ahead of Cam Newton in 10th place all time.

1.919, 32 rushing touchdowns, 350 passing.

Lamar Jackson comes in ninth.

He has a 1.93 touchdowns per game in 103 games.

He has 33 rushing TDs and 166 passing.

Tom Brady, most of his numbers coming through the pass.

649 touchdown passes by far exceeds anybody in touchdown passes, but only 28 rushing touchdowns.

2.02 touchdowns per game.

Pretty darn good for Mr.

TB12 here.

Drew Brees is just ahead of him at 2.08 touchdowns per game with his 571 through the air, 26 scored on his legs.

Peyton Manning is right above breeze in sixth place.

2.09 touchdowns per game, 539 touchdown passes in his career.

18 scores on his legs, which I was surprised that Peyton Manning scored 18 times rushing the ball.

Must have been a lot of quarterback sneaks.

Aaron Rodgers is in fifth place.

He has 2.16 touchdowns per game, 503 passing, 35 touchdowns running the ball.

Then we get into Patrick Mahomes is second place on our list.

He is 14 rushing touchdowns, 245 passing for 2.31 touchdowns per game and is 112 games played.

And number one on our list is a Buffalo Bill.

Josh Allen, 67 rushes, 195 passes in 111 games, 2.36 slightly ahead of Mahomes.

The rushing touchdowns really makes a difference there, but that is sort of an interesting stat to look at just to tell you how advanced that these current quarterbacks are doing.

You know, current quarterbacks that we mentioned on this list of our top 30 here, Josh Allen Mahomes, Aaron Rodgers, Lamar Jackson, Russell Wilson, Jalen Hurts, Matthew Stafford, Jared Goff are among those that are still playing the game and still ranking very high.

And that's saying something because out of 104 years, 105 seasons of the NFL, these guys are up top.

So quarterbacks are on the mark and they're running the ball, they're passing the ball.

The RPO game is alive and well and it's put some scoring on the board, much to the delight of fans across the league.

Well, that's what you have Our Old meets new in our statistics category for this Wednesday.

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