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In , a touchdown pass is a
In , a touchdown pass is a pass
Pass, PASS, The Pass or Passed may refer to:
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thrown from the passer (usually the quarterback
The quarterback (QB) is a position in gridiron football who are members of the offensive side of the ball and mostly line up directly behind the Lineman (football), offensive line. In modern American football, the quarterback is usually consider ...
) to a receiver that results in a touchdown
A touchdown (abbreviated as TD) is a scoring play in gridiron football. Scoring a touchdown grants the team that scored it 6 points. Whether running, passing, returning a kickoff or punt, or recovering a turnover, a team scores a touchd ...
being scored. The pass can either be caught in the end zone
The end zone is the scoring area on the field, according to gridiron-based codes of football. It is the area between the end line and goal line bounded by the sidelines. There are two end zones, each being on the opposite side of the field ...
itself, resulting in an immediate touchdown, or in the field of play, followed by the receiver carrying the ball into the endzone himself for the score. Either way, the quarterback is credited in his statistics with the touchdown pass.
The term "touchdown pass" is mostly used for statistical purposes for the quarterback. Passer rating
Passer rating (also known as passing efficiency in college football) is a measure of the performance of passers, primarily quarterbacks, in gridiron football. There are two formulas currently in use: one used by both the National Football Leagu ...
, a commonly used statistic for quarterbacks, uses touchdown passes per attempt in the calculation for the statistic.
See also
* List of National Football League records (individual) #Passing touchdowns * National Football League passing touchdowns leaders (disambiguation) * Most consecutive games with a touchdown pass (NFL)References
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