Sky Sports Cricket statistician – and big Buffalo Bills fan – Benedict Bermange dives into the 2024 NFL season to pick out the best stats from each week…
In the two games between the sides this season Lamar Jackson of the Baltimore Ravens and Joe Burrow of the Cincinnati Bengals combined for 1,458 passing yards, 17 touchdown passes and only one interception. However, Baltimore’s streak of 42 games with at least 100 rushing yards ended on the end-of-game kneel-down which left them with 99 and one short of the NFL record:
The Carolina Panthers’ win over the New York Giants in Munich means they have won successive games for the first time since Weeks 12-14 of the 2022 season. It was the third international game to go to overtime, and the first since the 2016 contest between the Bengals and Washington in London, which ended in a 27-27 tie.
Before the Minnesota Vikings’ win over the Jacksonville Jaguars, the previous 147 teams to have scored no touchdowns and turned the ball over at least three times in a game had all lost. John Parker Romo scored all of Minnesota’s points with four field goals on his NFL debut.
The Kansas City Chiefs improved their record to 9-0 with a blocked field goal sealing their win against the Denver Broncos. Their current winning streak in all games is now 15, the longest by any team since the Packers won 19 in a row covering the 2010 and 2011 seasons.
With 55 rushing yards in the New Orleans Saints’ win over the Atlanta Falcons, Alvin Kamara became the franchise’s leading rusher of all-time:
The Los Angeles Chargers beat the Tennessee Titans 27-17 and became just the fourth team in the last 40 years to allow 20 or fewer points in each of their first nine games in a season:
The Philadelphia Eagles easily overcame the Dallas Cowboys 34-6 as Jalen Hurts joined Cam Newton and Josh Allen as the only quarterbacks in NFL history with 50 rushing touchdowns. Hurts’ eight rushing touchdowns are the most by any quarterback in a four-game span in the Super Bowl era.
Despite five Interceptions from Jared Goff, the Detroit Lions defeated the Houston Texans to improve to 8-1 for the first time since 1954. The only other team in NFL history to erase a deficit of at least 15 points despite throwing as many as five interceptions in the game were the 1970 Colts, who trailed 17-0 to the Bears before winning 21-20. The last quarterback to throw at least five Interceptions in a game and win was Matt Ryan of the Atlanta Falcons against the Arizona Cardinals back in 2012.
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