Sky Sports activities Cricket statistician – and large Buffalo Payments fan – Benedict Bermange dives into the 2024 NFL season to pick the very best stats from every week…
On Thursday evening, Kirk Cousins posted a career-high 509 passing yards which set a brand new Atlanta Falcons franchise file. The earlier mark of 503 yards was set by Matt Ryan in opposition to the Carolina Panthers in Week 4 of the 2016 season.
Cousins turned the primary participant in NFL historical past to have at the least 450 passing yards in a sport for 3 completely different groups, having beforehand completed the feat for Washington and the Minnesota Vikings. He’s additionally the primary quarterback within the Tremendous Bowl period to throw for at the least 250 yards each earlier than and after half-time.
Sunday proved to be the longest day of NFL soccer since at the least the 1970 merger at 15 hours, 27 minutes. The London sport kicked off at 2:32pm BST on Sunday, and Sunday Evening Soccer ended at 5:59am BST on Monday after thunderstorms delayed the kick-off for 90 minutes.
It was additionally the primary time in historical past there have been two 100-plus yard defensive touchdowns on the identical day: Seattle Seahawks security Rayshawn Jenkins returned a purpose line fumble for 102 yards and Denver Broncos cornerback Pat Surtain II returned a Gardner Minshew interception 100 yards.
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Seattle Seahawks security Rayshawn Jenkins takes a New York Giants goal-line fumble 100-yards for the opening landing
In the middle of throwing for 244 passing yards within the New York Jets’ defeat to the Vikings in London, Aaron Rodgers turned the ninth NFL quarterback to cross for 60,000 yards.
Sky Sports activities NFL’s early sport between the Baltimore Ravens and the Cincinnati Bengals noticed a season-high 79 factors and 962 mixed yards, with the 79 factors essentially the most in any of the 57 video games between the 2 sides.
Derrick Henry turned the thirty second participant in NFL historical past to achieve 10,000 dashing yards as he helped the Ravens to their thirty eighth straight sport with at the least 100 yards on the bottom, the joint third-longest streak of all-time:
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Derrick Henry provides the Baltimore Ravens the lead over the Cincinnati Bengals, scoring his a centesimal profession landing
Trevor Lawrence celebrated his birthday by main the Jacksonville Jaguars over the Indianapolis Colts to their first win of the season, passing for a career-high 371 yards and two touchdowns. Solely two gamers have had extra passing yards on their birthdays: David Woodley (408 yards) and Brett Favre (390).
Jayden Daniels led the Commanders to victory over the Cleveland Browns and have become the primary participant with at the least 1,000 passing yards and 250 dashing yards in his first 5 NFL video games. The final time the Commanders began with a file pretty much as good as 4-1 was within the 2008 season.
The Arizona Cardinals shut out the San Francisco 49ers within the second half of their 24-23 victory, inflicting the primary scoreless half on Brock Purdy in his NFL profession. The Cardinals turned the primary staff to return again from a 10-plus level deficit coming into the fourth quarter and win in opposition to Kyle Shanahan in his 49ers tenure, the staff having gained their earlier 38 such video games.
Regardless of dropping to the Dallas Cowboys, TJ Watt turned the second-fastest participant to achieve 100 profession sacks, attaining the mark in 109 video games. Solely Corridor of Famer Reggie White (96 video games) has obtained there quicker.
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