Jared Goff predicted to pay off blazing stretch of efficiency with record mark

Over his last six games, Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff has completed 82.8 percent of his passes with a 140.1 passer rating. No other quarterback in NFL history has completed more than 80 percent of his passes over a six-game stretch.

Narrowing to his last five games, starting with his 18-for-18 outing in Week 4 against the Seattle Seahawks, Goff has completed 83.8 percent of his passes with 11 touchdowns and zero interceptions (145.9 passer rating).

Any way you slice it and break it down, Goff is on a historic and remarkable run of passing efficiency right now. And a notable position peer who shares his college alma mater has noticed, taking a public opportunity to heap praise on Goff this week.

Jared Goff predicted to set a record mark at season's end

Naturally, Goff currently leads the league with a 74.9 percent completion rate this season. He has half the season left, but that would be the single-season record for completion percentage if he can maintain it. With a completion on his first pass Sunday night against the Houston Texans, he'll get to a 75 percent completion rate for the season.

Drew Brees completed 74.4 percent of his passes in 2018, which is the NFL record for completion percentage in a season. Brees also has the second and third-best completion rates ever in a season (74.3 percent in 2019, 72 percent in 2017). Maybe Dan Campbell seeing some traits that Brees had in Goff isn't so far off.

As part of ESPN.com's midseason NFL predictions, reporter Lindsey Thiry predicted Goff will win league MVP. Writer Seth Wickersham went in a somewhat related direction in the "records that could be broken" section, predicting the Lions' signal caller will break Brees' record for completion percentage.

"He leads the NFL with a 74.9% completion percentage, putting him on pace to eclipse Brees' 74.4% single-season mark set in 2018. And Goff isn't showing any signs of slowing down. He has completed 30 straight passes to his top target, Amon-Ra St. Brown, and can boost his numbers against the Colts and Jaguars (two struggling pass defenses) over the next three weeks."

Goff is high on any list of betting favorites to win NFL MVP right now, and the run of passing efficiency he's got going has talk of setting the single-season completion percentage record feeling legit.