EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. – Eli Manning started his 176th regular-season game on Sunday in the Giants' 32-18 victory over the Buccaneers in Tampa. That is 11 full NFL seasons.
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Manning has not missed a start since his debut. His 176 consecutive starts is the longest active streak among all NFL players, regardless of position, and the third-longest in history for a quarterback. Only Brett Favre (297) and his older brother, Peyton (208), have started more consecutive games among quarterbacks than Manning, who is 96-80 (.550) in the regular season.
Manning is one of four active quarterbacks with at least 176 starts and he is the 12th quarterback in the Super Bowl era to reach that milestone.
What follows is a comparison of Manning's statistics with the other active quarterbacks who have started at least 176 games, as well as a few notable retired quarterbacks, including Favre, Hall of Famers Dan Marino and John Elway, Fran Tarkenton (who played five seasons for the Giants), and former Giants quarterback Kerry Collins.
THROUGH 176 STARTS:
| ACTIVE | W | L | T | ATT | COM | YDS | TD | INT | RATING |
| Brady, Tom | 137 | 39 | 0 | 5,997 | 3,821 | 45,042 | 336 | 124 | 96.5 |
| Brees, Drew | 105 | 71 | 0 | 6,393 | 4,203 | 47,988 | 342 | 170 | 94.9 |
| Manning, Eli | 96 | 80 | 0 | 5,940 | 3,529 | 42,028 | 278 | 191 | 83.3 |
| Manning, Peyton | 117 | 59 | 0 | 5,960 | 3,839 | 45,628 | 333 | 165 | 94.7 |
| RETIRED | W | L | T | ATT | COM | YDS | TD | INT | RATING |
| Collins, Kerry | 81 | 95 | 0 | 5,920 | 3,290 | 38,694 | 199 | 190 | 73.5 |
| Elway, John | 107 | 68 | 1 | 5,512 | 3,102 | 38,573 | 202 | 179 | 76.8 |
| Favre, Brett | 116 | 60 | 0 | 6,037 | 3,685 | 42,548 | 316 | 191 | 86.6 |
| Marino, Dan | 112 | 64 | 0 | 6,196 | 3,699 | 46,435 | 333 | 188 | 88.3 |
| Tarkenton, Fran | 81 | 91 | 4 | 4,436 | 2,451 | 33,065 | 245 | 186 | 80.1 |
Some Manning statistical nuggets:
• He is the Giants' career leader in pass attempts (5,949), completions (3,532), yards (32,094), touchdowns (278) and interceptions (191). There's a slight discrepancy with the numbers listed above, because Manning's first two career appearances were in relief of Kurt Warner. The numbers in the chart are from his 176 starts only.
• In NFL career rankings, Manning is 12th in attempts and 11th in completions (directly behind Tarkenton in each category), 12th in passing yards and 10th in touchdown passes – and 30th in interceptions.
• Philip Rivers has thrown 271 touchdown passes, and Ben Roethlisberger has thrown 258, so the three quarterbacks chosen among the first 11 selections in the 2004 NFL Draft have totaled 807 – and counting – scoring passes.
• Manning's 35 regular-season 300-yard passing games are 14 more than Giants runner-up Phil Simms.
• Manning has started all 176 games for head coach Tom Coughlin, putting them third in history on the list of quarterback/coach combinations, behind only New England's Tom Brady and Bill Belichick (215 and counting) and Miami's Dan Marino and Don Shula (184). The Giants host the Patriots on Sunday.
• Rivers has started 153 consecutive games, the second-longest streak among all active players,
• Johnathan Hankins has the Giants' second-longest streak of consecutive starts behind Manning, with 25. But Hankins was placed on injured reserve today with a torn pectoral muscle suffered at Tampa Bay. Presuming he starts on Sunday, the second-longest streak on the team will belong to Odell Beckham Jr., with 21 in a row – which will put him a mere 156 behind Manning.
• Manning's 96 regular-season victories place him fifth among active quarterbacks, behind
Peyton Manning (186), Brady (168), Brees (121) and Roethlisberger (109).
• Manning is 50-38 at home and 46-42 on the road. His record in both Giants Stadium and MetLife Stadium is 25-19.
• Manning has started in 33 different stadiums. He has thrown at least one touchdown pass in 29 of those stadiums, including Giants (67) and MetLife (80). Manning has thrown 17 touchdown passes in Lincoln Financial Field, his highest total in a road stadium.
• He has started against 80 different quarterbacks, from Derek Anderson to Vince Young. That includes 30 quarterbacks in the NFC East.
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• Manning has started against 68 different head coaches, from Dennis Allen to Jim Zorn.
• The Giants are 86-60 when Manning throws at least one touchdown pass, 10-20 when he doesn't.
• They are 53-61 when he throws at least one interception, 43-19 when he does not.
• The Giants are 70-70 when he is sacked at least once, 26-10 when he is not sacked.
• He is 68-52 in afternoon games, 24-28 in prime time.
• Manning has completed passes to 69 different receivers and thrown touchdown passes to 41 different teammates. Hakeem Nicks tops the receptions list with 306, and Plaxico Burress is first with 33 touchdowns.
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.
And now for some non-Manning notes:
• Tom Coughlin of the Giants and Bill Belichick of the Patriots have each been NFL head coaches for at least 20 years. When their teams face each other on Sunday, it will be the first meeting of head coaches with at least 20 years of experience since Sept. 20, 1992, when Miami's Don Shula faced the Rams' Chuck Knox. The Dolphins won, 26-10.
• The Giants have scored four defensive touchdowns this season, their highest total since they had five in 2007.
• The Giants have scored a return touchdown in each of the last three games (a kickoff return by Dwayne Harris, an interception return by Trumaine McBride, and a fumble return by Trevin Wade). The Giants last had return touchdowns in three consecutive games in 2004:
Dec. 5: Derrick Ward, 92-yard kickoff return at Washington
Dec. 12: Osi Umenyiora 50-yard fumble return at Baltimore
Dec. 18: Willie Ponder, 91-yard kickoff return vs. Pittsburgh
• Wade scored as time expired on Sunday. The touchdown didn't affect who won the game, but increased the Giants' margin of victory to 14 points (32-18). It was the first time the Giants scored a touchdown with no time remaining in the fourth quarter since Sept 28, 1980, when Scott Brunner threw a 19-yard touchdown pass to Johnny Perkins. Like Wade's touchdown, it had no bearing on the outcome. It simply spoiled the Los Angeles' Rams bid for a shutout in a 28-7 Giants loss.
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• The Giants did not give up a first-half touchdown in four of their five victories this season. The exception was Dallas, which scored on Darren McFadden's one-yard run.
• The Giants lead the NFL with 21 takeaways, 13 interceptions (tied with two teams), and a plus-12 turnover differential.
• The Giants have their bye after facing New England. Since regular-season byes were instituted in 1990, the Giants have the second-highest winning percentage in pre-bye games:
| Seattle Seahawks | 21-6 | 0.778 |
| New York Giants | 19-7 | 0.720 |
| Dallas Cowboys | 19-8 | 0.704 |
| Minnesota Vikings | 18-9 | 0.667 |
| San Francisco 49ers | 18-9 | 0.667 |
| New Orleans Saints | 17-9 | 0.654 |
• Neither the Giants nor the Buccaneers had a sack on Sunday, the first time that's happened in a Giants game since Oct. 7, 2012, in a victory over Cleveland.
• The Giants have gone sackless in back-to-back games for the first time since Nov. 7-14, 2010, vs. Seattle and Dallas.
• According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the Giants' nine sacks is their lowest total through nine games since team sacks were first compiled in 1963.
• The Giants and Bucs combined for only three punts on Sunday (one by the visitors), the lowest total in a Giants game since Oct. 13, 2008, when the Giants and Browns combined for two in Cleveland (both by the Giants' Jeff Feagles).
• Josh Brown has made 23 consecutive field goal attempts dating back to last season, which is both a career high and a Giants record. It is also the NFL's second-longest active streak, behind Stephen Gostkowski's 28 in a row. Brown and Gostkowski will be the competing kickers on Sunday, when the Giants host the Patriots.
• Brown and Tampa Bay's Connor Barth each kicked four field goals on Sunday (and Barth missed a 43-yard attempt). According to Elias, it was the first-ever Giants game in which both teams kicked at least four field goals.
• Brown and Barth each kicked a 53-yard field goal. It was the first Giants game in which each team kicked a field goal of at least 53 yards. It happened earlier this season in the NFL when Seattle visited Green Bay in Week 2. Mason Crosby and Steven Hauschka each kicked 54-yard field goals.
• Brown's 53-yard field goal at Tampa Bay was the 36th of his career of 50 or more yards. That ties him with San Francisco's Phil Dawson for second place among active kickers, behind only Oakland's Sebastian Janikowski (50).
• The Giants have three rushing touchdowns this season, their lowest total through nine games since they had two in 1996.
• Beckham has caught at least four passes in each of 19 consecutive games, the NFL's second-longest active streak behind Atlanta's Julio Jones (29)
• Rashad Jennings' 48 rushing yards on Sunday increased his two-year total with the Giants to 1,003 yards. He is the 40th player to rush for 1,000 yards in a Giants uniform.
