Touchdown pass

Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald catches a touchdown pass in the 2009 Pro Bowl

In gridiron football, a touchdown pass is a pass thrown from the passer (usually the quarterback) to a receiver that results in a touchdown being scored. The pass can either be caught in the end zone 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, 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)