TOM BRADY Bio

Seven-time Super Bowl champion quarterback Tom Brady makes his NFL debut on Sept. 8, 2024, in the Dallas Cowboys/Cleveland Browns game as the lead analyst for FOX’s NFL coverage alongside play-by-play announcer Kevin Burkhardt and veteran reporters Erin Andrews and Tom Rinaldi. The team calls the top FOX NFL game each week, in addition to Super Bowl LIX from New Orleans. FOX Corporation Executive Chair & CEO Lachlan Murdoch first announced Brady’s broadcast role during a May 2022 company earnings call in which he revealed Brady would join the FOX NFL booth upon his retirement from the NFL. 

Brady was drafted by the New England Patriots in the sixth round (199th overall) of the 2000 NFL Draft. He led the Patriots to six Super Bowl championships (XXXVI, XXXVIII, XXXIX, XLIX, LI, LIII) in his 20 seasons there (2000-2019) before signing with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in March 2020 as an unrestricted free agent. In his first season with the Buccaneers, Brady led the team to its second-ever NFC Championship and its second Lombardi Trophy at Super Bowl LV.

In addition to his record seven Super Bowl championships, Brady is a five-time Super Bowl MVP (XXXVI, XXXVIII, XLIX, LI, LV), three-time Associated Press Most Valuable Player (2007, 2010, 2017), 15-time Pro Bowler (2001, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009-2018, 2021), two-time NFL Offensive Player of the Year (2007, 2010), Associated Press Comeback Player of the Year (2009), three-time Associated Press First-Team All-Pro Selection (2007, 2010, 2017), three-time Second-Team All-Pro (2005, 2016, 2021)  and Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year (2007). For more, view the Tom Brady NFL Player page.

He was named to the NFL’s 2010s All-Decade Team and the NFL 100th Anniversary All-Time Team. Brady was a two-time Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year (2005, 2021) and winner of the Bert Bell Award (2007), presented by the Maxwell Football Club to the player of the year in the NFL. He was named to the New England Patriots All-2000s Team, its All-2010s Team, its 50th Anniversary Team and All-Dynasty Team. 

In June 2024, Brady was inducted into the New England Patriots Hall of Fame, at which time his No. 12 jersey was retired. During the ceremony, Patriots owner Robert Kraft announced the team would dedicate a 12-foot statue honoring Brady in the plaza outside the Patriots Pro Shop – the first statue honoring a Patriots player.

Brady’s 286 combined regular season and playoff wins are the most all-time by an NFL player, and he surpassed Peyton Manning (200) in 2016 to become the NFL’s all-time winningest quarterback. Brady’s 251 regular-season wins are also most in NFL history. In the final game of the 2020 season, he surpassed Brett Favre (298) for the most starts by any player in NFL history, and in October 2021, he threw for 269 yards against the Patriots to surpass Drew Brees for the most regular season passing yards in NFL history.

Brady holds multiple additional records, including career passing completions (7,753); career passing attempts (12,050); career passing touchdowns (649); career passing yards (89,214); passing completions in a season (490 in 2022); career playoff quarterback wins (35); career playoff passing yards (13,400); and career playoff passing touchdowns (88), among others. 

With his 10 Super Bowl appearances, Brady is the only quarterback in NFL history to lead his team to seven Super Bowl championships. After guiding Tampa Bay to Super Bowl LV, he joined Peyton Manning, Craig Morton and Kurt Warner as the only starting quarterbacks in NFL history to lead two separate franchises to the championship game. With his Super Bowl LV win with the Buccaneers, Brady joined Manning as the only starting quarterbacks in history to win a Super Bowl with multiple teams. In addition to a record five Pete Rozelle Awards as Super Bowl MVP, Brady is the all-time leader in Super Bowl passing yards (3,039), completions (277), touchdown passes (21) and starts (10) by a quarterback. In Super Bowl LV, he became the oldest player to appear in a Super Bowl (43 years, 168 days old) and was named the game’s MVP.

Brady played college football for the University of Michigan, recording a 20-5 record as a two-year starter, including wins in the 1999 Citrus Bowl and 2000 Orange Bowl, leading the Wolverines to 15 wins in 16 games from 1998-1999. Brady was named an All-Big Ten Conference second-team selection and team MVP as a senior in 1999. In 1998, he led the team to the Big Ten title as a junior after serving as Brian Griese’s backup quarterback during the Wolverines’ 1997 national championship season.

Born in San Mateo, Calif., Brady, a two-sport standout in high school, was drafted by the Montreal Expos as a catcher in the 18th round of the 1995 Major League Baseball Draft. 

In 2015, Brady founded the TB12 Foundation, whose mission is "to empower athletes everywhere to do what he’s done in his own storied career – keep going despite the odds."