CAREER RECORDS & MILESTONES: San Francisco 49ers quarterback STEVE YOUNG is the NFL’s all-time leading passer with a career rating of 96.8. Young led the league in passing an NFL-record four consecutive seasons from 1991-94. He is tied with SAMMY BAUGH for the most seasons leading the NFL in passing with six. Young led the league from 1991-94 and 1996-97.

He is the NFL’s most accurate passer with a career completion percentage of 64.28. Young completed 2,667 of 4,149 career passes. He led the league in completion percentage for four consecutive seasons (1994-97), the second-most in league history behind LEN DAWSON’s six (1964-69).

Young is tied with JOHNNY UNITAS and Dawson for most seasons leading the league in touchdown passes with four (1992-94, 1998). He also led the league in average gain per pass five times, second all-time to SID LUCKMAN, who accomplished the feat seven times.

Young has twice been named Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player. The first year was in 1992 when he led the league with a 107.0 passer rating and led the 49ers to a league-best 14-2 record. Young’s second MVP award came in 1994 when he set the league single-season passer-rating record with a 112.8 mark, passing former 49ers teammate JOE MONTANA’s 112.4. His 70.28 completion percentage that season ranks third all-time.

On November 24, 1996 against the Washington Redskins, Young completed 20 consecutive passes, tying KEN ANDERSON and HUGH MILLEN for second all-time. The record is 22 by Montana. Young passed for a Super Bowl record six touchdowns against the San Diego Chargers in Super Bowl XXIX. In 1998, he set the record for most consecutive 300-yard passing games with six.

Following are the top five all-time passers ranked by passer rating:

100+ PASSER-RATING SEASONS: Young has six career 100+ passer-rating seasons, more than any other player. Second on the list is former teammate Joe Montana with three such seasons. Green Bay Packers quarterback BART STARR is the only other player in history with two 100+ passer-rating seasons.

Young’s six 100+ seasons all took place between the 1991 to 1998 seasons. The two years in that span that Young did not have a 100+ rating, he came close with a 92.3 rating in 1995 and a 97.2 in 1996. Young also had 100+ passer ratings in two other seasons (120.8 in both 1987 and 1989) but did not have enough attempts to qualify among the league leaders.

1994 SUPER BOWL SEASON: Young led the 49ers to a 13-3 record in 1994, the best in the NFC, and to victory in the NFC Championship Game over the Dallas Cowboys, the team that had defeated the 49ers in each of the previous two NFC title games.

Young then passed for a Super Bowl-record six touchdowns in Super Bowl XXIX against the San Diego Chargers to win game MVP honors. It was the 49ers’ first Super Bowl championship with Young at quarterback.