Cam Newton set the NFL record for pass yards in a debut with 422 last week in the Carolina Panthers loss to the Arizona Cardinals. For an encore, he threw for 432 yards in another loss, this time to the defending Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers, the most by a rookie in NFL history.

The Elias Sports Bureau tells us that Newton is the first player in NFL history to post two consecutive 400-yard passing games in a team’s first two games of a season. He’s also the only player to throw for over 400 yards in his first two career starts, and he had the record for most pass yards ever, 854, in the first two starts of his NFL career.

Tom Brady, who threw for 517 yards in Week 1, threw for 423 yards in Week 2 to pass Newton for the all-time record.

According to Elias he’s just the fourth quarterback (rookie or not) in the past 25 years to post consecutive 400-yard games at any point in the season. Since the NFL-AFL merger in 1970, his 854 yards are the sixth-most in consecutive games in a single season.

Since the merger, Newton has the most pass yards by any quarterback in the first two games of the season, passing Kurt Warner, who threw for 827 back in 2000. Warner’s St. Louis Rams went to the playoffs that season, but they did start 2-0.



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