who is the oldest player with a 500 yard passing game

Kirk Cousins, Drew Brees and Y.A. Tittle are tied for the oldest career when throwing for 500+ yards. They are 36 years old.

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	NAME	Age	YDS	GP	CMP	ATT	PCT	AVG	YDS/G	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%	SCK	SCKY
1	Kirk Cousins K. Cousins	36	509	1	42	58	72.4	8.8	509.0	4	1	114.8	6.9	1.7	4	32
2	Drew Brees D. Brees	36	1,015	2	76	102	74.5	10.0	507.5	9	5	114.6	8.8	4.9	2	6
3	Y.A. Tittle	36	505	1	27	39	69.2	12.9	505.0	7	0	151.4	17.9	0.0
4	Ben Roethlisberger B. Roethlisberger	35	1,531	3	113	161	70.2	9.5	510.3	11	0	123.0	6.8	0.0	8	51
5	Boomer Esiason B. Esiason	35	522	1	35	59	59.3	8.8	522.0	3	4	77.1	5.1	6.8	2	15
6	Philip Rivers P. Rivers	34	503	1	43	65	66.2	7.7	503.0	2	0	99.7	3.1	0.0	3	15
7	Tom Brady T. Brady	34	517	1	32	48	66.7	10.8	517.0	4	1	121.6	8.3	2.1	1	1
8	Warren Moon W. Moon	34	527	1	27	45	60.0	11.7	527.0	3	0	123.1	6.7	0.0	3	22
9	Tony Romo T. Romo	33	506	1	25	36	69.4	14.1	506.0	5	1	140.0	13.9	2.8	4	36
10	Matt Ryan M. Ryan	31	503	1	28	37	75.7	13.6	503.0	4	1	142.0	10.8	2.7	3	22
11	Matt Schaub M. Schaub	31	527	1	43	55	78.2	9.6	527.0	5	2	121.7	9.1	3.6	2	23
12	Eli Manning E. Manning	31	510	1	31	51	60.8	10.0	510.0	3	3	89.5	5.9	5.9	0	0
13	Phil Simms P. Simms	31	513	1	40	62	64.5	8.3	513.0	1	2	82.3	1.6	3.2	7	70
14	Elvis Grbac E. Grbac	30	504	1	39	53	73.6	9.5	504.0	2	2	99.9	3.8	3.8	4	30
15	Vince Ferragamo V. Ferragamo	28	509	1	30	46	65.2	11.1	509.0	3	2	106.2	6.5	4.3	1	3
16	Dak Prescott D. Prescott	27	502	1	41	58	70.7	8.7	502.0	4	1	112.9	6.9	1.7	3	21
17	Dan Marino D. Marino	27	521	1	35	60	58.3	8.7	521.0	3	5	68.8	5.0	8.3	0	0
18	Joe Burrow J. Burrow	25	525	1	37	46	80.4	11.4	525.0	4	0	143.2	8.7	0.0	3	27
19	Jared Goff J. Goff	25	517	1	45	68	66.2	7.6	517.0	2	3	80.3	2.9	4.4	2	27
20	Derek Carr D. Carr	25	513	1	40	59	67.8	8.7	513.0	4	0	117.4	6.8	0.0	2	15
21	Norm Van Brocklin N. Van Brocklin	25	554	1	27	41	65.9	13.5	554.0	5	2	128.3	12.2	4.9
22	Matthew Stafford M. Stafford	23	520	1	36	59	61.0	8.8	520.0	5	2	103.8	8.5	3.4	2	18

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