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

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Starting for an injured Michael Vick, Nick Foles completed 22 of 28 passes for 406 yards and seven touchdowns at Oakland, tying the NFL record and posting a perfect 158.3 passer rating in a 49-20 Eagles win.

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Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Nick Foles, wearing green number 9, runs with the ball as Washington defenders in white and burgundy chase him
Nick Foles runs for a 4-yard touchdown against Washington on November 17, 2013, two weeks after his seven-touchdown game at Oakland. Photo by Mr.schultz, CC-BY-SA-3.0, resized.

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.

QtrTimeTeamPlayPHIOAK
15:23PHIBrent Celek 2-yard pass from Nick Foles (Alex Henery kick)70
12:06OAKSebastian Janikowski 24-yard field goal73
214:23PHIRiley Cooper 17-yard pass from Foles (Henery kick)143
211:26PHICooper 63-yard pass from Foles (Henery kick)213
27:39OAKRashad Jennings 8-yard run (Janikowski kick)2110
24:10PHIZach Ertz 15-yard pass from Foles (Henery kick)2810
20:08OAKJanikowski 53-yard field goal2813
314:21PHILeSean McCoy 25-yard pass from Foles (Henery kick)3513
311:41PHIDeSean Jackson 46-yard pass from Foles (Henery kick)4213
34:34PHICooper 5-yard pass from Foles (Henery kick)4913
40:52OAKJeremy Stewart 2-yard run (Janikowski kick)4920
Scoring summary. Times are time remaining in the quarter.

By the numbers

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

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.

PlayerTeamOpponentDate
Sid LuckmanChicago BearsNew York GiantsNov. 14, 1943
Adrian BurkPhiladelphia EaglesWashingtonOct. 17, 1954
George BlandaHouston OilersNew York TitansNov. 19, 1961
Y.A. TittleNew York GiantsWashingtonOct. 28, 1962
Joe KappMinnesota VikingsBaltimore ColtsSept. 28, 1969
Peyton ManningDenver BroncosBaltimore RavensSept. 5, 2013
Nick FolesPhiladelphia EaglesOakland RaidersNov. 3, 2013
Drew BreesNew Orleans SaintsNew York GiantsNov. 1, 2015
Quarterbacks with seven touchdown passes in an NFL game. Nobody has thrown eight.

“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.

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