Passing TD Leaders

Penn State’s All-Time Passing TD Leaders—

The Career Passing TD Leaders List—

All of the Passing Touchdown totals are “Modified/Complete” stats which means that they are updated to include all Bowl game stats considered “unofficial” by NCAA prior to 2002 season—

Outdated “official” TD numbers are in parentheses where necessary—

• Sean Clifford—86 TDs (had 6th year of eligibility in 2022 season due to Covid-19 rules)—1 OT TD pass

• Trace McSorley—77 TDs

• Drew Allar—61 TDs (out for rest of season with ankle injury—played 6 games with 8 TDs in 2025)

• Christian Hackenberg—48 TDs (turned pro after 2015 season with 1 year of eligibility remaining)—2 OT TD passes

• Tony Sacca—48 TDs (41)

• Matt McGloin—46 TDs

• Daryll Clark—43 TDs

• Todd Blackledge—43 TDs (41) (turned pro after 1982 season with 1 year of eligibility remaining)

• Zack Mills—41 TDs

• Kerry Collins—41 TDs (39)

• Chuck Fusina—40 TDs (37)—(actually first to reach 40 TD passes at PSU)

• Wally Richardson—32 TDs (27)

• Anthony Morelli—31 TDs

• John Hufnagel—27 TDs (26)

  No others at 26 or more career passing TDs

LINK HERE TO PASSING YARDS LEADERS

Overtime Career TD Passing Leaders List (OT begins in 1996)—

• Christian Hackenberg QB-2 (2013 win vs. Illinois to Kyle Carter TE & 2014 Pinstripe Bowl win vs. Boston College to Kyle Carter TE)—Hackenberg played in 5 OT games in his career (including 2 Whiteouts and 1 Bowl game) winning 3 of them

• Sean Clifford QB-1 (2020 loss at Indiana to Parker Washington WR)

  Most Career TD Passes by a non-Quarterback (since 1966)—

• Mike Archie RB-2 (1994 win vs. Temple at Franklin Field-51 yards to Freddie Scott WR & 1994 win vs. Michigan State-55 yards to Bobby Engram WR)

• 11 others have done it once—most recent was Tyler Warren TE (2024 win vs. Kent State-17 yards to Nick Singleton RB)—Warren also caught an 11-yard TD pass from Trey Potts RB in 2023 win at Illinois

  FYI—The lone PSU QB to catch a TD pass from a non-QB is Christian Hackenberg 14 yards from Nick Scott RB in the 2015 win over Illinois

  NOTE: Dick Barvinchak (2 career TD passes) is the only PSU player to throw a TD pass as both a QB and a non-QB—As a back-up QB, Barvinchak threw a 35-yard TD pass to Jim Eaise FL in the 1973 win vs. Army & later as a WR/SE, Barvinchak threw a 30-yard TD pass to Dave Stutts TE in the 1975 win at Syracuse in what is believed to be the first instance of a non-QB TD pass at Penn State during the era of modern QB play. Barvinchak also became the guy to catch the longest pass in PSU history from a QB to a former QB (75 yards from John Andress QB in the 1975 win at Iowa).

  LINK HERE TO BOWL/POST-SEASON PASSING TD LEADERS LIST