Packers' Aaron Rodgers Passes Bart Starr on Franchise's Passing-Yardage List

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers passed Hall of Famer Bart Starr for second place on the franchise's all-time passing-yardage list during Sunday's 31-24 win over the New York Jets, per Tyler Dunne of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Now the proud owner of 24,732 career passing yards, Rodgers needed all of Sunday's game to surpass Starr, who recorded each of his 24,718 yards in a Green Bay uniform.

Trailing Starr by one yard and facing a 3rd-and-3 to clinch the game with two minutes remaining, Rodgers found wide receiver Jordy Nelson for a 15-yard completion, and then kneeled twice to end the contest.

Rodgers' final completion to Nelson put the wideout over 200 receiving yards for the game, marking the Packers' first performance of that kind since Javon Walker had exactly 200 yards in a 2004 game against the Indianapolis Colts.

While second on the Packers' all-time passing-yardage list, Rodgers will need to play for many more years to have any shot at ascending to the top spot, which is, of course, held by all-time passing-yardage leader Brett Favre.

Favre compiled 61,655 of his 71,838 career passing yards in a Packers uniform, and while he may be eclipsed by Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning for the all-time record next season, Favre will still hold the mark for most yardage with one team.

Of course, that record of 61,655 yards may also fall fairly soon, as New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has 49,547 career passing yards, all in a Patriots uniform.

As for Rodgers, the Packers signal-caller ranks 11th among active players in career passing yardage, or 10th if we consider Jon Kitna (29,745) to be retired. Rodgers ranks just 66th on the all-time list, though he'll likely move into the top 50 by the end of this season.

All stats courtesy of Pro-football-reference.com unless otherwise noted.