who was the oldest qb with a 500 yard passing game

Drew Brees is the oldest quarterback in a game with 500+ passing yards. He was 36 years and 290 days old versus the Giants on November 1, 2015.

Interpreted as:

Who was the oldest qb with a 500 or more yard passing regular-season game?

	NAME	Age	YDS	DATE	TM		OPP	CMP	ATT	PCT	AVG	TD	INT	RTG	TD%	INT%	SCK	SCKY
1	Drew Brees D. Brees	36-290	505	11/1/2015	NO	vs	NYG	39	50	78.0	10.1	7	2	131.7	14.0	4.0	0	0
2	Kirk Cousins K. Cousins	36-045	509	10/3/2024	ATL	vs	TB	42	58	72.4	8.8	4	1	114.8	6.9	1.7	4	32
3	Y.A. Tittle	36-004	505	10/28/1962	NYG	vs	WAS	27	39	69.2	12.9	7	0	151.4	17.9	0.0
4	Ben Roethlisberger B. Roethlisberger	35-283	506	12/10/2017	PIT	vs	BAL	44	66	66.7	7.7	2	0	99.7	3.0	0.0	3	20
5	Boomer Esiason B. Esiason	35-207	522	11/10/1996	ARI	@	WAS	35	59	59.3	8.8	3	4	77.1	5.1	6.8	2	15
6	Tom Brady T. Brady	34-040	517	9/12/2011	NE	@	MIA	32	48	66.7	10.8	4	1	121.6	8.3	2.1	1	1
7	Warren Moon W. Moon	34-028	527	12/16/1990	HOU	@	KC	27	45	60.0	11.7	3	0	123.1	6.7	0.0	3	22
8	Philip Rivers P. Rivers	33-314	503	10/18/2015	SD	@	GB	43	65	66.2	7.7	2	0	99.7	3.1	0.0	3	15
9	Tony Romo T. Romo	33-168	506	10/6/2013	DAL	vs	DEN	25	36	69.4	14.1	5	1	140.0	13.9	2.8	4	36
10	Ben Roethlisberger B. Roethlisberger	32-238	522	10/26/2014	PIT	vs	IND	40	49	81.6	10.7	6	0	150.6	12.2	0.0	0	0
11	Eli Manning E. Manning	31-257	510	9/16/2012	NYG	vs	TB	31	51	60.8	10.0	3	3	89.5	5.9	5.9	0	0
12	Matt Schaub M. Schaub	31-146	527	11/18/2012	HOU	vs	JAX	43	55	78.2	9.6	5	2	121.7	9.1	3.6	2	23
13	Matt Ryan M. Ryan	31-138	503	10/2/2016	ATL	vs	CAR	28	37	75.7	13.6	4	1	142.0	10.8	2.7	3	22
14	Phil Simms P. Simms	30-344	513	10/13/1985	NYG	@	CIN	40	62	64.5	8.3	1	2	82.3	1.6	3.2	7	70
15	Elvis Grbac E. Grbac	30-084	504	11/5/2000	KC	@	OAK	39	53	73.6	9.5	2	2	99.9	3.8	3.8	4	30
16	Vince Ferragamo V. Ferragamo	28-246	509	12/26/1982	RAM	vs	CHI	30	46	65.2	11.1	3	2	106.2	6.5	4.3	1	3
17	Drew Brees D. Brees	27-308	510	11/19/2006	NO	vs	CIN	37	52	71.2	9.8	2	3	91.0	3.8	5.8	2	6
18	Ben Roethlisberger B. Roethlisberger	27-293	503	12/20/2009	PIT	vs	GB	29	46	63.0	10.9	3	0	121.9	6.5	0.0	5	31
19	Dak Prescott D. Prescott	27-067	502	10/4/2020	DAL	vs	CLE	41	58	70.7	8.7	4	1	112.9	6.9	1.7	3	21
20	Dan Marino D. Marino	27-038	521	10/23/1988	MIA	vs	NYJ	35	60	58.3	8.7	3	5	68.8	5.0	8.3	0	0
21	Derek Carr D. Carr	25-216	513	10/30/2016	OAK	@	TB	40	59	67.8	8.7	4	0	117.4	6.8	0.0	2	15
22	Norm Van Brocklin N. Van Brocklin	25-197	554	9/28/1951	LA	vs	NYY	27	41	65.9	13.5	5	2	128.3	12.2	4.9
23	Joe Burrow J. Burrow	25-016	525	12/26/2021	CIN	vs	BAL	37	46	80.4	11.4	4	0	143.2	8.7	0.0	3	27
24	Jared Goff J. Goff	24-350	517	9/29/2019	LAR	vs	TB	45	68	66.2	7.6	2	3	80.3	2.9	4.4	2	27
25	Matthew Stafford M. Stafford	23-328	520	1/1/2012	DET	@	GB	36	59	61.0	8.8	5	2	103.8	8.5	3.4	2	18

Results may be incomplete. StatMuse has complete game-level data for passing yards going back to the 1950 season.

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