Drew Brees

**Drew Brees** (; born January 15, 1979) is a former American football quarterback for the National Football League. A native of Austin, Texas, he played college football for Purdue and was drafted by the San Diego Chargers in 2001, where he was their starting quarterback until 2006. In 2009, he led the Saints to a Super Bowl championship and was named MVP of the game. He is currently a sportscaster and color commentator for the NFL on Fox.

## NFL Statistics

|rowspan="2"|Year|rowspan="2"|Team|colspan="3"|Games|colspan="10"|Passing|colspan="5"|Rushing|colspan="2"|Sacks|colspan="2"|Fumbles|||||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2001|SDC|1|0||15|27|55.6|221|8.2|221|40|1|**0**|94.8|2|18|8|13|0|2|12|2||
|2002|SDC|16|16|8-8|320|526|60.8|3,284|6.2|205.3|52|17|16|76.9|**38**|**130**|3.8|15|1|24|180|2||
|2003|SDC|11|11|2-9|205|356|57.6|2,108|5.9|191.6|68|11|15|67.5|21|84|4.0|18|0|21|178|5||
|2004|SDC|15|15|11-4|262|400|65.5|3,159|7.9|210.6|79|27|7|104.8|53|85|1.6|**22**|2|18|131|7||
|2005|SDC|16|16|9-7|323|500|64.6|3,576|7.2|223.5|54|24|15|89.2|21|49|2.3|9|1|17|223|8||
|2006|NOR|16|16|10-6|356|554|64.3|4,418|8.0|276.1|86|26|11|96.2|42|32|0.8|16|0|18|105|8||
|2007|NOR|16|16|7-9|440|652|67.5|4,423|6.8|276.4|58|28|18|89.4|23|52|2.3|9|1|16|109|9||
|2008|NOR|16|16|8-8|413|635|65.0|5,069|8.0|316.8|84|34|17|96.2|22|-2|-0.1|9|0|13|92|6||
|2009|NOR|15|15|13-2|363|514|70.6|4,388|**8.5**|292.5|75|34|11|109.6|22|33|1.5|10|2|20|135|**10**||
|2010|NOR|16|16|11-5|448|658|68.1|4,620|7.0|288.8|80|33|22|90.9|18|-3|-0.2|7|0|25|185|9||
|2011|NOR|16|16|13-3|468|657|71.2|**5,476**|8.3|**342.3**|79|**46**|14|110.6|21|86|**4.1**|20|1|24|158|1||
|2012|NOR|16|16|7-9|422|670|63.0|5,177|7.7|323.6|80|43|19|96.3|15|5|0.3|11|1|26|190|5||
|2013|NOR|16|16|11-5|446|650|68.6|5,162|7.9|322.6|76|39|12|104.7|35|52|1.5|16|3|**37**|**244**|6||
|2014|NOR|16|16|7-9|456|659|69.2|4,952|7.5|309.5|69|33|17|97.0|27|68|2.5|13|1|29|186|7||
|2015|NOR|15|15|7-8|428|627|68.9|4,870|7.8|324.7|80|32|11|101.0|24|14|0.6|12|1|31|235|5||
|2016|NOR|16|16|7-9|**471**|**673**|70.0|5,208|7.7|325.5|**98**|37|15|101.7|23|20|0.9|7|2|27|184|5||
|2017|NOR|16|16|11-5|386|536|72.0|4,334|8.1|270.9|54|23|8|103.9|33|12|0.4|7|2|20|145|5||
|2018|NOR|15|15|13-2|364|489|**74.4**|3,992|8.2|266.1|72|32|5|115.7|31|22|0.7|11|**4**|17|121|5||
|2019|NOR|11|11|8-3|281|378|74.3|2,979|7.9|270.8|61|27|4|**116.3**|9|-4|-0.4|2|1|12|89|0||
|2020|NOR|12|12|9-3|275|390|70.5|2,942|7.5|245.2|52|24|6|106.4|18|-2|-0.2|3|2|13|89|6||

## Other websites

- The Brees Dream Foundation
- New Orleans Saints bio

## Infobox (nfl biography)

- **name**: Drew Brees
- **image**: Drew Brees 2015.jpg
- **image size**: 220
- **caption**: Drew Brees With The Saints
- **position**: Quarterback
- **birth place**: Austin, Texas
- **height ft**: 6
- **height in**: 0
- **weight lbs**: 209
- **high school**: Westlake High School (Texas), Westlake (Austin, Texas)
- **college**: Purdue Boilermakers football, Purdue
- **draftyear**: 2001
- **draftround**: 2
- **draftpick**: 32
- **pastteams**: * History of the San Diego Chargers, San Diego Chargers (–)
* New Orleans Saints (–2020)
- **status**: Retired
- **highlights**: * Super Bowl champion (Super Bowl XLIV, XLIV)
* Super Bowl Most Valuable Player Award, Super Bowl MVP (Super Bowl XLIV, XLIV)
* 13x Pro Bowl (2005 Pro Bowl, 2004, 2007 Pro Bowl, 2006, 2009 Pro Bowl, 2008–2015 Pro Bowl, 2014, 2017 Pro Bowl, 2016–2020 Pro Bowl, 2019)
* First-team All-Pro (2006 All-Pro Team, 2006)
* 4× Second-team All-Pro (2008 All-Pro Team, 2008, 2009 All-Pro Team, 2009, 2011 All-Pro Team, 2011, 2018 All-Pro Team, 2018)
* 2× National Football League Offensive Player of the Year Award, NFL Offensive Player of the Year (2008, 2011)
* Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year, _Sports Illustrated_ Sportsman of the Year (2010)
* Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year (2010)
* Bert Bell Award (2009)
* Art Rooney Award (2018)
* Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year (2006)
* National Football League Comeback Player of the Year Award, NFL Comeback Player of the Year (2004)
* 7× List of National Football League season passing yardage leaders, NFL passing yards leader (2006, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2014–2016)
* 4× List of National Football League season passing touchdowns leaders, NFL passing touchdowns leader (2008, 2009, 2011, 2012)
* 2× List of NFL annual passer rating leaders, NFL passer rating leader (2009, 2018)
* 5× List of National Football League annual pass completion percentage leaders, NFL completion percentage leader (2009-2011, 2017, 2018)
* Maxwell Award (2000)
* Chicago Tribune Silver Football, Big Ten Player of the Year (2000)
* 2× Big Ten Conference football individual awards, Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year (1998, 2000)
* Bart Starr Award (2011)
;NFL records
* List of National Football League passing yards leaders, Most career passing yards
* List of National Football League career passing completions leaders, Most career pass completions
* Highest career completion percentage
* Highest single-season completion percentage
* Most List of most consecutive games with touchdown passes in the National Football League, consecutive games with a touchdown pass
* Most pass completions in a season
* Most 5,000 yard passing seasons
* List of NFL quarterbacks with seven touchdown passes in a game, Most touchdown passes in a game (tied)
- **statseason**: 2018
- **statweek**: 17
- **statlabel1**: Passing attempts
- **statvalue1**: 9,783
- **statlabel2**: Passing completions
- **statvalue2**: 6,586
- **statlabel3**: Completion percentage
- **statvalue3**: 67.3
- **statlabel4**: Passing yards
- **statvalue4**: 74,437
- **statlabel5**: Touchdowns, TD–Interceptions, INT
- **statvalue5**: 520–233
- **statlabel6**: Passer rating
- **statvalue6**: 97.7
- **nfl**: 2504775
- **pfr**: BreeDr00