Most Career NFL Touchdowns (All Time)
About This Dataset
Most Career NFL Touchdowns (All Time)
NFL players ranked by total career touchdowns scored across rushing, receiving, and passing in regular season play. Jerry Rice holds the all-time NFL touchdown record with 208 — accumulated entirely through receiving and a handful of rushing scores across 20 professional seasons, reflecting a career efficiency that saw him score on approximately one in every eight receptions he made. His nearest pursuer on the all-time list trails by more than 20 touchdowns.
Analysis
Jerry Rice (208), Emmitt Smith (175) and LaDainian Tomlinson (162) take the top three in Career NFL Touchdowns. Values run from 208 at the top to 131 at the bottom in Career NFL Touchdowns, a spread of 77. First and second are separated by 33, so the leader sits inside the field rather than apart from it. Below the top two the field is tightly packed: the remaining 6 run from 162 down to 131 Career NFL Touchdowns.
Source:
Wikipedia
Key Findings
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Jerry Rice leads in Career NFL Touchdowns with 208.
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Average Career NFL Touchdowns: 159 · median: 157.
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Gap: Jerry Rice is 1.6× larger than Cris Carter.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia
- Coverage
- 8 entities · 8 observations
- Measure
- Career NFL Touchdowns
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.
Data Sources & References
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