It seems the question of breaking the record for career NFL wins by a quarterback is a matter of when, not if, for Tom Brady.

The New England Patriots star has 198 wins (including the postseason), one from tying Brett Favre for the second-most in NFL history. In first place, with 200 wins, is Peyton Manning.

ESPN’s Football Power Index gives the Patriots an 81 percent chance to win at home this week against the Seattle Seahawks and a 75 percent chance to win on the road against the San Francisco 49ers in Week 11.

The Patriots haven’t thrown an interception on any of their 249 passes this season, the second-most attempts without an interception to start a season in NFL history behind the 2008 Washington Redskins (251). If they do not throw an interception against the Seahawks, the Patriots will join the 1960 Cleveland Browns as the only teams in modern NFL history (since 1933) to not throw an interception in their first nine games of a season.

Dallas Cowboys rookie Dak Prescott has won seven consecutive starts. The Elias Sports Bureau says that’s the third-longest win streak by a rookie since the NFL/AFL merger in 1970. Prescott can tie Kyle Orton on Sunday when the Cowboys face the Pittsburgh Steelers and Ben Roethlisberger, whose 13 wins in succession in 2004 is a record for a rookie quarterback.

We’re on milestone watches for losses this week, too. Los Angeles Rams coach Jeff Fisher’s next loss will tie Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Tom Landry for second-most in NFL history with 162. Fisher enters Week 10 having coached in 334 regular-season games, 84 fewer than Landry (418). (Dan Reeves is the loss leader with 165 in 357 games.) FPI projects the Rams have a 69 percent likelihood of losing Sunday to the New York Jets.

The Cleveland Browns are 0-9 and will try to avoid becoming the first team to start 0-10 since the 2014 Oakland Raiders. The Browns have never started 0-10. In 1975, they were 0-9 but won their 10th game.

Cowboys rookies stay on pace to reshuffle record books

Ezekiel Elliott leads the NFL with 891 rushing yards, the third-most in a player’s first eight games in NFL history. If he rushes for 109 yards Sunday against the Steelers, Elliott would join Pro Football Hall of Famer Eric Dickerson (1,096) and Adrian Peterson (1,081) as the only players in NFL history to rush for 1,000 yards in their first nine career games (source: Elias).

Two running backs have rushed for at least 109 yards in a game against the Steelers this season: Jay Ajayi of the Miami Dolphins with 204 in Week 6 and LeGarrette Blount of the Patriots with 127 in Week 7.

With the Cowboys’ Prescott having passed for 2,020 yards (most among rookies), he and Elliott appear headed toward becoming the second rookie quarterback and rookie running back teammates in NFL history with at least 2,000 passing yards and 1,000 rushing yards in a season. The only two to do it are Robert Griffin III (3,200 passing yards) and Alfred Morris (1,613 rushing yards) with Washington in 2012. If Elliott reaches 1,000 rush yards this week, he and Prescott will be the first rookie teammates to reach the 2,000-1,000 combination in a team’s first nine games.

Passing and receiving milestones

The Steelers’ Roethlisberger enters Sunday’s game against the Cowboys needing 56 passing yards to become the 11th quarterback in NFL history with 45,000 yards and the eighth quarterback to accomplish the feat with one team.

Roethlisberger can become the fifth-fastest quarterback in NFL history to reach 45,000 career passing yards, accomplishing the feat in his 179th career game. Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints (168) was the fastest to reach 45,000 passing yards.

A.J. Green of the Cincinnati Bengals needs 104 receiving yards against the New York Giants to join Randy Moss as the only players in NFL history to begin a career with six consecutive 1,000-yard seasons. The most receiving yards one player has against the Giants this season is 108, by Randall Cobb of the Green Bay Packers in Week 5.

The Giants’ Odell Beckham Jr. needs 69 receiving yards to reach 3,500 receiving yards in his career, which, Elias research shows, would make him the quickest in NFL history to reach to 3,500 yards in terms of career games. Beckham has played in 35 games. Lance Alworth reached 3,500 receiving yards in 37 games. Nine players have accumulated at least 69 receiving yards in a game against the Bengals this season.

The Browns’ Terrelle Pryor has 579 receiving yards this season and 643 in his career. He’s also thrown more than 300 passes. Only two players in NFL history who have thrown 300 passes have gained more receiving yards, and Pryor is closing in on one of them, as the chart indicates.

Larry Fitzgerald of the Cardinals has not had a 100-yard receiving game in 15 straight games, one shy of the longest such streak in his career (16 straight in 2004). With 80 receiving yards, Fitzgerald will reach 14,000 in his career and become the 12th in NFL history to reach that mark. If he gets 85 receiving yards, he will pass James Lofton for 11th all-time.

The Patriots’ Rob Gronkowski has gained 100 or more receiving yards in three of his four games with Brady this season, giving him 23 career 100-yard games. That’s six more than any other tight end since the start of the 2010 season, when Gronkowski entered the league. If he reaches 100 yards again Sunday, Gronkowski will tie Kellen Winslow for the second-most 100-yard games by a tight end in NFL history (24). Winslow played in 109 games, and Gronkowski has played in 86.

Team rushing -- offense and defense

The Minnesota Vikings are averaging 2.7 yards per rush this season, which would be the fewest for any team in the Super Bowl era (since 1966). The 1994 New England Patriots, who averaged 2.8 yards per rush, hold that distinction. This week, the Vikings face the Washington Redskins, who allow 4.9 yards per rush, second-worst in the NFL.

The San Francisco 49ers have allowed 810 rush yards in their last three games. Elias Sports Bureau research shows that they are tied for the most allowed by any team in any three-game span in the Super Bowl era. The 49ers have allowed three teams in succession to rush for 200 yards. The last team to allow 200 rushing yards in four straight games was the 1986 Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The 49ers’ opponent Sunday is the Arizona Cardinals, whose season high for rush yards in a game this season is 172, in Week 5 against the -- you guessed it -- the 49ers.