November 3, 2013: Nick Foles throws seven touchdown passes as the Eagles rout the Raiders 49-20

Nick Foles went to Oakland on November 3, 2013, as a second-year quarterback starting for an injured Michael Vick. He left with a share of one of the NFL’s oldest records. Foles threw seven touchdown passes in a 49-20 Philadelphia Eagles win over the Raiders, completing 22 of 28 passes for 406 yards. He had more touchdowns than incompletions, and he was on the bench for most of the fourth quarter.

An offense that had stalled

Chip Kelly’s first Eagles team arrived at the Oakland Coliseum at 3-5. Its offense had not scored a touchdown in two weeks. Philadelphia lost 17-3 at home to Dallas, a game Foles left with a concussion, and then 15-7 at home to the Giants, when its only touchdown came on a botched Giants punt and Vick re-injured his hamstring. Oakland was 3-4 and had just beaten Pittsburgh 21-18, with Terrelle Pryor at quarterback.

Foles set the tone on the first drive. On a quick throw against a defense that was outnumbered on one side, Riley Cooper caught the ball and ran 42 yards before Charles Woodson pushed him out of bounds. Seven plays later Foles found Brent Celek for a 2-yard touchdown.

Seven touchdowns before the fourth quarter

Sebastian Janikowski kicked a 24-yard field goal to make it 7-3, and that was as close as Oakland got. Foles hit Cooper for 17 yards on third-and-5 early in the second quarter, then found him behind the defense for a 63-yard score less than three minutes later. Rashad Jennings ran 8 yards for a Raiders touchdown, but Zach Ertz caught a 15-yarder and Philadelphia led 28-13 at halftime.

Philadelphia then scored three touchdowns in the first 10 1/2 minutes of the third quarter. LeSean McCoy caught a short pass and went 25 yards on the opening drive of the half. DeSean Jackson got behind the secondary for 46 yards. With 4:34 left in the quarter, Foles threw a 5-yard touchdown pass to Cooper, his third of the day and Foles’s seventh. It was 49-13.

Foles threw one more pass, an incompletion early in the fourth quarter, and Matt Barkley replaced him with 9:23 left. Bradley Fletcher and Connor Barwin intercepted Pryor, and Jeremy Stewart’s 2-yard run with 52 seconds left made the final 49-20.

Qtr	Time	Team	Play	PHI	OAK
1	5:23	PHI	Brent Celek 2-yard pass from Nick Foles (Alex Henery kick)	7	0
1	2:06	OAK	Sebastian Janikowski 24-yard field goal	7	3
2	14:23	PHI	Riley Cooper 17-yard pass from Foles (Henery kick)	14	3
2	11:26	PHI	Cooper 63-yard pass from Foles (Henery kick)	21	3
2	7:39	OAK	Rashad Jennings 8-yard run (Janikowski kick)	21	10
2	4:10	PHI	Zach Ertz 15-yard pass from Foles (Henery kick)	28	10
2	0:08	OAK	Janikowski 53-yard field goal	28	13
3	14:21	PHI	LeSean McCoy 25-yard pass from Foles (Henery kick)	35	13
3	11:41	PHI	DeSean Jackson 46-yard pass from Foles (Henery kick)	42	13
3	4:34	PHI	Cooper 5-yard pass from Foles (Henery kick)	49	13
4	0:52	OAK	Jeremy Stewart 2-yard run (Janikowski kick)	49	20

By the numbers

Number	Detail
22 of 28, 406	Nick Foles passing, with seven touchdowns, no interceptions and one sack
158.3	Foles’s passer rating, the highest possible under the NFL formula
14.5	Yards per pass attempt for Foles
5 for 139, 3 TDs	Riley Cooper receiving, including the 63-yard touchdown
5 for 150	DeSean Jackson receiving, with the 46-yard touchdown
560 to 542	Total yards, Oakland to Philadelphia. The Raiders ran 92 plays to the Eagles’ 57
22 of 41, 288	Terrelle Pryor passing, with two interceptions. He also ran 10 times for 94 yards
51,751	Attendance at the Oakland Coliseum

Joining the seven-touchdown club

Foles was the seventh quarterback to throw seven touchdown passes in a game, and the second that season. Peyton Manning had done it on opening night against Baltimore two months earlier. Foles also tied Adrian Burk’s Eagles record from 1954. Drew Brees joined the list two years later, and nobody has done it since. The most by any quarterback in a game since the start of the 2025 season is five.

Player	Team	Opponent	Date
Sid Luckman	Chicago Bears	New York Giants	Nov. 14, 1943
Adrian Burk	Philadelphia Eagles	Washington	Oct. 17, 1954
George Blanda	Houston Oilers	New York Titans	Nov. 19, 1961
Y.A. Tittle	New York Giants	Washington	Oct. 28, 1962
Joe Kapp	Minnesota Vikings	Baltimore Colts	Sept. 28, 1969
Peyton Manning	Denver Broncos	Baltimore Ravens	Sept. 5, 2013
Nick Foles	Philadelphia Eagles	Oakland Raiders	Nov. 3, 2013
Drew Brees	New Orleans Saints	New York Giants	Nov. 1, 2015

“Only in a video game”

Foles said he did not know about the record until he was out of the game. “A couple people came up to me and said that I tied the record with seven touchdowns,” he said. “It’s a great honor. Hats off to our guys for doing a great job.” Asked whether he had ever thrown seven before, he laughed. “Only in a video game,” he said.

He said the difference was patience. “I slowed everything down,” Foles said. “I understood what we were trying to do. I wasn’t trying to make too big of plays.” Kelly was asked why he did not leave Foles in to go for an eighth. “I know what the record is,” he said. “But this isn’t about records, it’s about going out and getting a win. If I put Nick out there to try to get a record and he gets hurt, that’s being silly.”

Oakland cornerback Tracy Porter took it personally. “When a quarterback has seven touchdowns, we have to sit there and take that personal,” he said.

What came next

Foles kept the job. Starting with Oakland, the Eagles won seven of their last eight games, finished 10-6 and won the NFC East before losing a wild-card game 26-24 to New Orleans. Foles finished the regular season with 27 touchdown passes and two interceptions, a 119.2 passer rating and a trip to the Pro Bowl. Four years later, back in Philadelphia as Carson Wentz’s backup, he was the MVP of the Eagles’ Super Bowl LII win over New England.

Foles’s afternoon belongs with the other big passing days in our history series, from Peyton Manning’s 509th touchdown pass in 2014 to Ben Roethlisberger’s six-touchdown, 522-yard day against the Colts.