Rodgers Passes Manning for Third on All Time Touchdown List With 540th Score in Paris

Updated 16:48 UTC: Steelers win the Paris game 16-10

The game is final. Pittsburgh beat New Orleans 16 to 10 at Stade de France, in the first NFL regular season game played in France. The Steelers scored 3 points in the first quarter, 10 in the second and 3 in the third, and the Saints scored all 10 of their points in the second quarter. Neither team scored in the fourth quarter. Pittsburgh improves to 5 wins and 2 losses, and New Orleans falls to 2 wins and 5 losses.

Aaron Rodgers threw his 540th career regular season touchdown pass on Sunday, October 25, 2026, and moved into sole possession of third place on the NFL all time list ahead of Peyton Manning. The Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback broke the tie with Manning in the second quarter against the New Orleans Saints in Paris.

The milestone pass was a 4 yard scoring throw to tight end Darnell Washington. It put Pittsburgh ahead of New Orleans 10 to 3 in the second quarter. The game was played at Stade de France in Saint Denis, outside Paris, and it was the first NFL regular season game in France, in Week 7 of the season.

Only Brady and Brees are ahead of him

The list now reads clearly at the top. Tom Brady leads with 649 career regular season touchdown passes, and Drew Brees is second with 571. Rodgers is third with 540, Manning is fourth with 539, and Brett Favre is fifth with 508.

Rodgers would need 32 more touchdown passes to pass Brees. USA TODAY reported that Rodgers has said this will be his final season, so the chase for second place runs against that stated plan. The touchdown in Paris was his 13th of this season.

Among active players, the next name is far behind. Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford has 434 touchdown passes, the second most among active players, which places him sixth on the all time list.

A total built across three teams

Rodgers was a first round pick in 2005 and spent his first 18 NFL seasons with the Green Bay Packers. He became the franchise all time leader in Green Bay with 475 touchdown passes. He also threw 28 touchdown passes with the New York Jets in 2024.

Since joining the Steelers in 2025, he has thrown 37 touchdown passes. Those three parts add to the career total that reached 540 on Sunday: 475 with Green Bay, 28 with the Jets, and 37 with Pittsburgh.

The four time NFL MVP also ranks fifth in NFL history in career passing yards. He entered Sunday with 67,761 regular season yards, and the next player ahead of him on that list is Favre at 71,838 yards.

Another mark fell last week

The touchdown record followed another milestone one week earlier. Last week Rodgers passed Ben Roethlisberger for fifth place all time in career victories, reaching 166. He won the Super Bowl with the Packers at the end of the 2010 season, he is in his 22nd season, and he will turn 43 later this season. He is 42 now.

Rodgers has spoken before about what passing Manning means. After the Week 5 game against Indianapolis, when he passed Manning on the combined regular season and playoffs list, he told CBS sideline reporter Tracy Wolfson, as reported by Steelers Depot: "Any time you're mentioned in the same sentence as Peyton, it definitely means a lot to me." That comment came after the Indianapolis game, not after the Paris game.

This report is about the career milestone reached during the game in Paris. The Steelers and Saints game was still in play when the milestone was reported, and no final result is stated here.