Tom Brady
Career information High school: San Mateo (CA) Junípero Serra College: Michigan NFL Draft: 2000 / Round: 6 / Pick: 199 Debuted in 2000 for the New England Patriots Career history New England Patriots (2000–present) Roster status: Active Career highlights and awards NFL 4× Super Bowl Champion (XXXVI, XXXVIII, XXXIX, XLIX) 3× Super Bowl MVP (XXXVI, XXXVIII, XLIX) 6× AFC Champion (2001, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2011, 2014) 2× NFL MVP (2007, 2010) 2× First Team All-Pro (2007, 2010) 1x Second Team All-Pro (2005) 10× Pro Bowl (2001, 2004-2005, 2007, 2009-2014) 3× NFL passing touchdowns leader (2002, 2007, 2010) 2× NFL passing yards leader (2005, 2007) Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year (2005) Sporting News Sportsman of the Year (2004, 2007) AP Male Athlete of the Year (2007) 2× NFL Offensive Player of the Year (2007, 2010) 3× AFC Offensive Player of the Year (2007, 2010, 2011) AP NFL Comeback Player of the Year (2009) PFWA NFL Comeback Player of the Year (2009) New England Patriots all-time leader (passing touchdowns, passing yards, pass completions, pass attempts, career wins) NFL 2000s All-Decade Team NFL Records 29 career playoff starts for quarterback 29 career playoff games for quarterback 9 career NFL conference championship appearances for quarterback 6 career NFL conference championship wins for quarterback Most career Super Bowl touchdown passes Most career Super Bowl passing yards Most first half pass completions in single Super Bowl Most career Superbowl pass completions Most career Superbowl pass attempts Most pass completions in single Super Bowl 12 career division titles for quarterback 21 career playoff wins for quarterback Most career postseason passing yards 53 career playoff passing touchdowns College 2x Big Ten Champion Rose Bowl (1998) National Champion (1997) Citrus Bowl (1999) Orange Bowl (2000) Career NFL statistics as of 2014 Pass attempts 7,168 Pass completions 4,551 Percentage 63.5 TD–INT 392–143 Passing yards 53,258 Passer rating 95.9 Stats at NFL.com Thomas Edward Patrick "Tom" Brady, Jr. (born August 3, 1977) is an American football quarterback for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). After playing college football for the University of Michigan, Tom Brady was drafted by the Patriots in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL draft. In Brady's 13 full seasons as a starter (he missed nearly all of 2008 with a torn ACL), the Patriots have earned six trips to the Super Bowl, winning four. Brady has won three Super Bowl MVP awards, two league MVP awards (2007, 2010), has been selected to ten Pro Bowls, and has led the Patriots to more division titles than any other quarterback in NFL history, with twelve. Brady is fifth on the all time list for career passing yards and fifth for career touchdown passes. His career postseason record is 21–8; his playoff win total is the most in NFL history. He helped set the record for the longest consecutive win streak in NFL history with 21 straight wins over two seasons (2003–2004). He also set the record for most consecutive playoff wins with 10, and in 2007 led the Patriots to the first undefeated regular season since the institution of the 16-game schedule. He has thrown for more passing yards and touchdowns than any quarterback in NFL postseason history, and has the sixth highest career passer rating of all time (95.9) among quarterbacks with at least 1,500 career passing attempts. Tom Brady is generally considered among the greatest quarterbacks of all time. He and Joe Montana are the only two players in NFL history to win the NFL Most Valuable Player and Super Bowl MVP awards multiple times. Brady is the only quarterback to lead his team to six Super Bowls, and holds the record for the most total Super Bowl touchdown passes. He was named the NFL MVP in 2007 and 2010 (becoming the first player since 1986 to be unanimously chosen as MVP) as well as the 2007 Male Athlete of the Year by the Associated Press, the first NFL player to be so honored since 1990. After the 2010 season, Brady was ranked as the top player in the NFL Top 100, a poll of league players. He also became the first quarterback to throw for 50 or more touchdowns in a season. In 2010, he set the NFL record for consecutive passes without an interception (358), and broke his own record for the highest season touchdown:interception ratio, among players who have started a full season, at 9:1. Brady and Bill Belichick have combined to form one of the most successful quarterback-coach tandems in NFL history, winning 160 regular season games and 21 postseason games together, as well as appearing in six Super Bowls together, all NFL records.