Giants.com's Michael Eisen takes a closer look a Eli Manning's consecutive games streak:
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – Eli Manning has reached the point in his illustrious career where he achieves a new statistical milestone every time he steps on the field. On Sunday, he'll ascend to an area few players before him have ventured.
Manning will make this 209th consecutive regular-season start when the Giants host the Kansas City Chiefs in MetLife Stadium. He will break a tie with his brother, Peyton, and own the second-longest starting streak by a quarterback in NFL history. He will also move ahead of Derrick Brooks and own the sixth-longest streak by any player since the 1970 merger:
LONGEST STREAKS OF CONSECUTIVE GAMES STARTED / SINCE 1970
NAME - STARTS
Brett Favre - 297
Bruce Matthews - 229
Will Shields - 223
Ronde Barber - 215
London Fletcher - 215
Eli Manning - 208
Derrick Brooks - 208
Peyton Manning - 208
Manning long ago established the Giants franchise record for the most consecutive starts. Here are the five-longest Giants streaks since the merger:
NAME - STARTS
Eli Manning - 208
David Diehl - 120
Doug Van Horn - 103
Chris Snee - 101
Jessie Armstead - 96
Fran Tarkenton owns the second-longest streak by a Giants quarterback with 69 in a row from 1967-71.
One hundred and eighty-seven (187) other quarterbacks have started an NFL regular-season game (plus Oakland's Connor Cook in an AFC Wild Card Game last season) since Manning started his first game as a rookie on Nov. 21, 2004. The other three NFC East teams – Dallas, Philadelphia and Washington – have started 33 different quarterbacks.
Manning's record as a regular-season starter is 109-99 (.524).
When Manning faced the 49ers on Sunday, Levi's Stadium became the 38th different stadium in which he has started a regular-season game – and the 33rd in which he has thrown a touchdown pass. C.J. Beathard was the 89th different starting quarterback he has faced. Kyle Shanahan was the 78th different head coach. Manning is 0-1 against Kyle, but was 6-3 against his father, Mike Shanahan, the former Oakland, Denver and Washington coach. Manning joined Cam Newton and Carson Palmer as quarterbacks to start games against both Shanahans.
As Eli Manning enters his 12th season with the Giants, we look back at this career.
Originally selected first overall by the Chargers in the 2004 NFL Draft, quarterback Eli Manning was obtained by the Giants in a trade for quarterback Philip Rivers, whom the Giants had taken with the fourth pick. The Giants also gave up their 2004 third round pick, and 2005 first and fifth round selections.
2005: Manning led the Giants to an 11-5 record and the first postseason appearance of his career. Manning is the first Giants quarterback to throw for more than 3,000 yards in eight consecutive seasons, a streak he began in 2005. Manning threw 557 passes in 2005, which remains the second-highest total of his career (2011). He also had 124 attempts that season without an interception from Sept. 11 to Oct. 16, 2005, a streak ended by Dallas' Anthony Henry. Stats: 16 GS, 294 of 557 (52.8%), 3,762 YDS, 24 TD, 17 INT
In 2006, Manning started all 16 regular-season games and the NFC Wild Card Game, but the Giants lost in the opening round of the postseason for the second straight year. Manning's 24 touchdown passes matched his 2005 total and left him tied for fourth in the NFL with St. Louis Pro Bowler Marc Bulger. Manning was the first Giants quarterback to throw at least 20 touchdown passes in consecutive seasons since Simms did it three years in a row from 1984-86. Stats: 16 GS, 301 of 522 (57.7%), 3,244 YDS, 24 TD, 18 INT
2007: Manning was named the Most Valuable Player of Super Bowl XLII after completing 19-of-34 passes for a career postseason-high 255 yards and 2 touchdowns against the then-undefeated New England Patriots. On the way to their title, Manning led the Giants on a game-winning fourth quarter drive by completing 5-of-9 passes for 77 yards and a 13-yard touchdown pass to Plaxico Burress. In four postseason games, Manning completed 72-of-119 passes (60.5 percent) for 854 yards, 6 touchdowns and 1 interception. Stats: 16 GS, 297 of 529 (56.1%), 3,336 YDS, 23 TD, 20 INT
2008: In 2008, Manning led the Giants to their second NFC East championship in his four full seasons as a starter and fourth consecutive postseason berth, a franchise record. Manning played in his first Pro Bowl following the 2008 season to become the first Giants quarterback to be selected to the Pro Bowl since Phil Simms in 1993. Stats: 289 of 479 (60.3%), 3,238 YDS, 21 TD, 10 INT
2009: In 2009, Manning set career highs in completions, percentage, yards, touchdowns and rating, becoming the third quarterback in Giants history to throw for more than 4,000 yards in a season, joining Kerry Collins (4,073 in 2002) and Phil Simms (4,044 in 1984). Manning also became the first Giants quarterback with two 4,000-yard seasons. Stats: 16 GS, 317 of 509 (62.3%), 4,021 YDS, 27 TD, 14 INT
2010: Manning's 339 completions and 62.9 completion percentage were both franchise single-season records. The previous records were 335 completions by Collins in 2002 and the 62.8 completion percentages by Jeff Hostetler in 1991 and Kurt Warner in 2004. He had four 300-yard passing game and was 1 of 4 players to throw every one of his team's passes in 2010. Stats: 16 GS, 339 of 539 (62.9%), 4,002 YDS, 31 TD, 25 INT
2011: Manning won the Rozelle Trophy as the Most Valuable Player of Super Bowl XLVI four years after he earned that honor in Super Bowl XLII. He became the fifth player in NFL history to win multiple Super Bowl MVP honors, joining Joe Montana, Tom Brady, Terry Bradshaw, and Bart Starr. Stats: 16 GS, 359 of 589 (61.0%), 4,933 YDS, 29 TD, 16 INT
2012: In 2012, Manning passed Phil Simms and became the Giants' career leader in completions (2,612) and touchdown passes (2011). Stats: 16 GS, 321 of 536 (59.9%), 3,948 YDS, 26 TD, 15 INT
Eli Manning enjoyed one of his best statistical seasons in 2015, in the second season of then offensive coordinator Ben McAdoo. Manning completed 62.6 percent of his passes, and threw for a career high 35 touchdown passes. His 93.6 QB rating was also a career high.
Manning enters the 2016 season, his 13th in the league, with a new head coach - Ben McAdoo. A trip to Green Bay and Pittsburgh highlight some of the away games on the schedule.
*Manning is 10-6 against rookie quarterbacks after the Giants lost to Beathard's 49ers.
*Manning completed 75.7% of his passes (28 of 37) Sunday, his second-highest percentage of the season; he hit 76.3% of his throws (29 of 38) in the season opener in Dallas. His passer rating of 113.9 was his best since he posted a 115.3 rating on Dec. 18, 2016 vs. Detroit.
*While Manning was completing more than three-quarters of his passes, Beathard hit 76% of his (19 of 25). The last time both starting quarterbacks each completed 75+ percent of their pass attempts in a Giants game was Dec. 21, 2014, when Manning was 25-for-32, 78.1%, and the St. Louis Rams' Shaun Hill was 24-for-32, 75.0%.
*First-round draft choice Evan Engram leads all rookie tight ends with 40 catches, 443 receiving yards, five touchdowns and 49.2 yards per game, and leads all rookies with 14 third-down receptions.
Engram is the first Giants tight end with a touchdown reception in each of four consecutive games since Mark Bavaro in 1987. He is the third tight end to accomplish the feat this season, joining Tampa Bay's Cameron Brate and Philadelphia's Zach Ertz.
*The Giants have allowed a receiving touchdown to an opposing tight end in 10 consecutive games dating back to last year. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, that is the longest such streak in NFL history.
*Four consecutive Giants opponents have gained more than 400 yards, the first time that's happened since Oct. 12-Nov. 9, 2014.
*In their last two games, the Giants gave up touchdown passes of 52 and 67 yards to the Rams, and 47 and 83 yards to the 49ers. It is the first time in their history they allowed two touchdown passes of at least 47 yards in back-to-back games.
*San Francisco converted eight of 12 third-down opportunities on Sunday, a 67% success rate that was the highest by a Giants opponent since Jan. 3, 2016, when Philadelphia was 10-for-13 (77%).
*Long snapper Zak DeOssie played in his 165th game in a Giants uniform Sunday, tying former defensive end Jim Katcavage for 12th on the franchise's career list.
*Aldrick Rosas kicked field goals of 47 and 42 yards against San Francisco, the first Giants kicker with two 40-yarders in a game since Oct. 9, 2016, when Josh Brown booted 47 and 41-yard three-pointers at Green Bay.
But Rosas was also wide right on a 34-yard try. The Giants have missed a field goal attempt in each of the last four games, their longest such streak since Dec. 11, 1988 to Sept. 24, 1989 (five straight games).
*This season, the Giants have held just one opponent to less than 100 rushing yards; Denver ran for 46 yards on Oct. 15. Not coincidentally, that was the Giants' lone victory. Since the start of the 2016 season, the Giants are 2-12 when the opposition rushes for at least 100 yards and 10-1 when it doesn't.
*The Giants are averaging 4.1 yards a carry, their highest average since 2012, when they gained 4.6 yards per attempt.
