Troy Aikman: Year-by Year

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(From Dallas Cowboys Press Guide)

1992

Troy led the team to victories in eight of the first nine games. After knocking off the defending Super Bowl champion Redskins in the Monday night season opener, he threw three touchdown passes against Phoenix (9/20), including a season-long 87-yard touchdown pass to Michael Irvin.

Later in the year at Phoenix (11/22), Aikman completed a season-high 25 passes and threw for two touchdowns, beginning a string of five straight games in which he threw at least two touchdown passes, the longest such streak by a Dallas player since Danny White had six straight multi-touchdown games in 1983.

Down 27-24 late at Denver (12/6), Aikman completed 7 of 8 passes for 78 yards on a last-minute touchdown drive to give Dallas a 31-27 come-from-behind win, the seventh time he had led Dallas from behind to win in the fourth quarter, including twice in the last two minutes.

The following week at Washington (12/13), he reached 10,000 passing yards in his 52nd career game, faster than any quarterback in team history. Aikman finished the season with 3,445 yards passing, his first career 3,000-yard season and the third best yardage season in team history, to rank second in the NFC and fourth in the NFL in yards passing. His 302 completions were the second most in a season in team history and tied him for the NFC lead, second in the NFL.

One of his finest passing performances of the year came at Atlanta (12/21) when he completed 13 straight passes, the second most in club history, on his way to a single-game career-high 85.7 percent (18 of 21) completion rate, the second best in team history.

In leading Dallas to a club record 13 regular season wins in 1992, Aikman's 89.5 quarterback rating placed him third in the NFL and earned him his second consecutive Pro Bowl appearance.

In the post-season, Aikman took his game to yet another level, completing 61 of 89 passes (68.5%) for 795 yards, eight touchdowns and no interceptions for a rating of 126.4.

He had 322 passing yards in the Cowboys 30-20 win over San Francisco (1/17/93) in the NFC Championship Game, and he completed 70.6% (24 of 34) of his passes to establish a club playoff record.

Two weeks later, he broke that record by completing 73.3% (22 of 30) of his passes against Buffalo (1/31/93), earning him MVP honors in Super Bowl XXVII. With his MVP award, Aikman joined Jim Plunkett and Terry Bradshaw as the only other quarterbacks drafted first overall to win the Super Bowl MVP award.