Darnold just continues to play high-level football for the Vikings this season.
Only three times in the 64-year history of the Minnesota Vikings has a quarterback had ten games with at least a 100 passer rating in a single season. Daunte Culpepper did it in 2000. Brett Favre did it in 2009. With another clutch performance in, Sam Darnold has equaled those two with his tenth such performance this season — and he has five games left to break the record and stand alone in franchise history.
He got off to a slow start against the Cardinals. Midway through the third quarter, Darnold had thrown for just 79 yards and taken four sacks. But with the Vikings trailing 19-6, their offense finally emerged from its slumber. They scored on each of their final three possessions, rallying to pull out a 23-22 win that moves them to 10-2 on the season. During those three drives, Darnold was 12 of 17 for 156 yards with touchdown passes to Johnny Mundt and Aaron Jones.
Looking beyond just Vikings history, Darnold is only the seventh player to ever have a 100+ passer rating at least ten times in the first 12 games of the season. Aaron Rodgers has done it twice. The other five are Patrick Mahomes, Philip Rivers, Dak Prescott, Carson Palmer, and Peyton Manning. Rodgers holds the all-time record with 14 such games in 2020, which Darnold could still break if he does it in each of the final five games of this season.
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