Manning Set NFL TD Passes Record With 51 Peyton Manning has broken Tom Brady's NFL record for most touchdown passes in a season with 51. Denver's Manning did it on a 25-yard pass to Julius Thomas with 4:28 remaining in the game Sunday against the Texans. Just 2 1-2 minutes earlier, he tied the mark with a 20-yard pass to Eric Decker. "I really feel like it's a team accomplishment, certainly an offensive accomplishment," Manning said. There's a lot of people that played roles in this. Manning made the throw to Thomas and walked toward the end zone, where his teammates patted him on the head. Decker picked up the ball after Thomas dropped it and tucked it in the side of his jersey, where it remained as he walked off the field. Manning entered the game with 47 TDs and his first touchdown came on a 36-yard pass to Demaryius Thomas in the second quarter. The second one was a 10-yard throw to Decker early in the fourth period. "We're not surprised at what Peyton does," Julius Thomas said. The work he puts in every day, you see how he demands the best from himself. Fortunate for us, we're the beneficiaries of that. "They were able to make the big plays and we weren't able to stop them from doing that," Houston safety Shiloh Keo said. Surrounded by the best targets he's ever had, operating a turbocharged assault with a body that's much less a question mark, Manning is putting up record numbers like he did in that remarkable 2004 season. Manning finished Sunday's game with a career-high 5,211 yards passing. He is 266 from surpassing the single-season record for yards passing set by Drew Brees in 2011.