If Drew Brees does indeed retire at the end of the season as rumored, he won’t finish as the NFL’s all-time leader in touchdown passes – but he did set one NFL record of sorts in the 2020 regular-season finale.
Brees’ touchdown pass to Emmanuel Sanders in the second quarter of Sunday’s Saints game against Carolina was the 1,087th broadcast by NFL RedZone this season, setting a new single-season record for the channel with still more than 300 minutes of action to go on Sunday.
No. 1,088 came not long after, when Chargers QB Justin Herbert scored a rushing touchdown against Kansas City, and it’s likely that the total will top 1,100 come the end of the late window.
RedZone, of course, shows every touchdown from every game in the 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. windows on Sundays, so the record is even more impressive given the amount of games in 2020 that were either nationally televised or postponed to a non-Sunday schedule and thus not shown via the platform.
NFL insider Adam Schefter reported this week that Brees is widely expected to retire following this season and move into the broadcast booth. He entered Sunday 13 TD passes behind Tom Brady, who tossed four in the Buccaneers’ Sunday afternoon win in Atlanta to boost his career total to 581.
The catch was also 12.5 percent of a potential big day for Sanders, who entered Sunday needing eight grabs to reach 60 for the season, and reach a $500,000 incentive clause in his contract.
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