A ‘perfect game’ in the NFL is really somewhat rare for a starting quarterback, though not impossible, as Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger proved on Thursday night, posting a perfect passer rating of 158.3 in a performance in which he completed 22 of 25 passes for 328 yards and five touchdowns with no interceptions.
It was the third perfect game by a quarterback this season, as Jared Goff and Russell Wilson also managed it earlier this year, back in Week Four and Week Seven, respectively. But nobody has a perfect passer rating in the previous two seasons.