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Peyton Manning celebrates with his teammates after throwing a record-setting 51st touchdown pass Sunday in Denver’s win over the Houston Texans.
Peyton Manning once owned the record for the most touchdown passes in a single season, throwing 49 of them in 2004 with the Colts when he was 28 years old. Tom Brady would break that record in 2007, completing 50 touchdown passes.
Now 37, and in his second season with the Broncos, Manning has reclaimed the record. His fourth touchdown Sunday in a win against the Texans, a 25-yard completion to tight end Julius Thomas with 4:28 left in the game, gave Manning 51 touchdowns for the season.
Manning still has one more game to add to that total at Oakland in Week 17.
Entering Sunday, Manning had already set a career-high for passing yards in a season, and for the first time he eclipsed the 5,000-yard mark. He entered the game with 4,811 and produced his fourth 400-plus yard game of the season.
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