Five QBs who made their only completion of the game count

[Todd Pence]

If a quarterback finishes a ball game with just a single completion, usually that's a day they would like to forget. However, I humbly present five signal callers who made their lone completion one to remember.

ED BROWN, CHICAGO VS. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 31 1954
The Niners had just taken a late lead over the Bears at Kezar Stadium with only seconds to play. Although Bear starter George Blanda had already throw three TD passes, George Halas put backup Ed Brown in the game for what was certain to be the last few plays on the belief that Brown could throw the ball further. Halas' move paid off handsomely as Brown immediately hit Harlon Hill for the game-winning touchdown - Hill's fourth score of the afternoon - putting the Bears on top by the final of 31-27.

JOHN BRODIE, SAN FRANCISCO VS. BALTIMORE, Dec. 8 1957
The 49ers were losing to the Colts in the game's closing moments, and starter Y.A. Tittle had been ineffective in moving the team. Although Brodie's lone completion was twenty less than Tittle's on this day, it did what they had not been able to do - put the ball in the end zone. Hugh McElhenny's 14-yard catch gave San Fran a 17-13 win.

DON HORN, GREEN BAY VS. ATLANTA, Sep. 27 1970
Perhaps no quarterback in NFL history had a more spectacular finish to a game after having such a horrendous start than Don Horn. Forced into the game in the second half after an injury to Bart Starr, Horn misfired on his first seven passes as the Pack watched a 17-point lead over the Falcons evaporate. Trailing 24-20 with time running out and the ball on his own 11, Horn found that the eighth time was a charm. His spectacular 89-yard bomb to Carroll Dale won the game for Green Bay and set the record for the most yardage on just one completion for a QB.

KENT NIX, CHICAGO VS. PITTSBURGH, Sep.. 19, 1971
The Bears had one last chance to pull the game out as Kent Nix came on in relief of starter Jack Concannon. Nix, a former Steeler got back at his old team by making his only completion of the day an 8-yard game-winner to George Farmer. Bears, 17-15.

WADE WILSON, OAKLAND VS. SAN DIEGO, Oct. 11, 1998
The Oakland Raiders were putting on a show of offensive futility at home against the Chargers. Not only had they compiled just 88 yards on offense, but they posted an incredible FIFTEEN consecutive drives ending with a punt - all but one of those a three-and-out. Raider starter Donald Hollas had been woeful, but his replacement, the ancient Wade Wilson, wasn't faring any better. Wilson had failed to find the mark on his first six passes. Now there were less than two minutes to play. Although the Chargers themselves could manage only a pair of field goals, nothing in the Raiders performance up to now gave any reason for San Diego faithful to worry about the safety of the lead. The Raiders quickly found themselves with a third-and-ten - which in this game had long become a familiar situation. Then Wilson wound up and struck gold; hitting on his first pass, converting Oakland's first third down since early in the game, and winning the game all at once. The recepient of the 68-yard home run was James Jett, a man I was once enrolled in a class with at WVU (he was a no-show).

[rhickok1109]

I love stuff like this! Thanks

[Rupert Patrick]

This thread title is a little misleading, as it does not consider non QB situations, such as Halfback Option passes and the like such as the TD passes thrown by Robert Newhouse in Super Bowl XII and Antwaan Randle-El in Super Bowl XL. I also remember kicker Matt Prater of the Lions throwing a TD pass on a fake FG in a game late in the 2018 season.

[Gary Najman]

As for non quarterbacks, my favorite will always be Walter Payton in a 1983 Bears-Saints game at the Superdome. Payton threw for two long TDs passes to Willie Gault, including one that sent the game into OT, when Morten Andersen's FG gave New Orleans the win.

[Gary Najman]

As for non quarterbacks, my favorite will always be Walter Payton in a 1983 Bears-Saints game at the Superdome. Payton threw for two long TDs passes to Willie Gault, including one that sent the game into OT, when Morten Andersen's FG gave New Orleans the win.

Ooops, they were two completions. For one completion, none was better IMHO that Dontari Poe's 2-yard TD pass to Demetrius Harris in a Chiefs-Broncos game in 2016. If it had been William Perry, the play would've been "relived, forever".

[sheajets]

Makes me think about what an amazing story Percy Howard would've been if he caught that pass at the end of the SB. Everybody in America would know his name. 2 career catches, 2 Super Bowl touchdowns. One to win the whole damn thing

[Todd Pence]

This thread title is a little misleading,

No it's not. I specifically stated "QB" in the title.