Third week of the year NFL Now there are about two matches left and the matches are about to end. Many players have performed unbelievably, and the results of many teams have also been surprising.
Possibly the most impressive performance of this week came from here. malik naborswho led a surprise victory Giants against Browns,
He became the youngest person to reach the milestone on Sunday at the age of 21 years and 56 days. wide receiver He is the first player in NFL history to score two receiving touchdowns in a game.
He also joined Saquon Barkley (2018) as the only player in Giants history to have 20 receptions in his first three career games. It doesn’t stop there, as the LSU product also became the first player in NFL history to have 20 receptions, 250 receiving yards, and three receiving touchdowns in his first three career games.
Nabers wasn’t the only player who had a great game this weekend. FOX Sports Research has compiled ten more surprising facts for you. Let’s take a look.
At 32, the “Honey Badger” is aging like fine wine. He recorded his second interception of the season on Sunday, giving him the 35th interception of his career. He became the fifth player to reach that milestone since 2010, and just the second active player of the five to do so. harrison smith,
He is the only player this season to record an interception, a forced fumble, and a fumble recovery.
Strong Steelers protect
Mike Tomlin’s team improved to 3–0, and Chargers with just 10 points and less than 300 yards of offense. They have done so in all three games this season, making them the first team since 2004 to Seahawks Starting 3-0 and holding all three opponents to less than 10 points and less than 300 total yards. Pittsburgh has done this only once before, in 1936, when the franchise was known as the Pirates.
This was also the fourth time the Steelers started 3–0 under Tomlin (2007, 2010, 2020), having made the playoffs in each of the previous three occasions.
Malik Willis’s new look
Malik Willis looks like a different player PACKERSFor perspective, he was 1-2 in three starts TitansThrowing for 234 yards, along with a touchdown-to-interception ratio of zero to three, with a 51% completion rate. In two starts with Green Bay, he is 2-0 with 324 pass yards, two pass touchdowns, no interceptions, and a 76% completion percentage.
He also rushed for 73 yards during the win The ColtsThe most in a single game by a Packers quarterback since Don Majkowski (88 yards) in 1990. Over the past two weeks, Willis leads the league in both pass yards per attempt (9.8) and yards per rush (9.5) among players with a minimum of 12 attempts in each category in that span.
Speaking of rookie quarterbacks, Sam Darnold has performed brilliantly. The seventh-year veteran has thrown multiple touchdown passes in three consecutive games for the first time in his career. He threw four touchdown passes Texans This Sunday, he had accomplished that feat only once in the past six seasons.
Darnold is also a quarterback first The Vikings The best player in history, who started the season 3-0 and scored multiple touchdowns in every game. As of Sunday, he leads the league with eight passing touchdowns.
49ers were without Christian McCaffrey, Deebo SamuelAnd George KittleJauan Jennings arrived. He played the best game of his career, posting 11 receptions for 175 yards and three touchdown catches. Since 1973, only two other 49ers receivers have posted 100 receiving yards and three receiving scores in a game – Jerry Rice and Terrell Owens.
Jennings also became the first player with 10 receptions, 175 receiving yards, and three receiving scores Regulation This is the biggest defeat since Drew Bennett in 2004.
49ers and Rams Madness
Jennings had an incredible individual performance in this game, but Matthew Stafford He got the last laugh, recording his 48th game-winning drive in the fourth quarter or overtime. Including playoff games, this is the sixth most in NFL history.
Brock Purdy He also had a stellar performance, recording his seventh game with three pass touchdowns and no interceptions. It’s tied lamar jackson And Justin Herbert The second-most such games in a quarterback’s first 25 games (patrick mahomes– nine).
But arguably the strangest aspect of this game is how it was won, as well as how it was lost. The 49ers under Kyle Shanahan were 50-0 when leading by more than 14 points at any point in the second half (including the postseason). Now they are 50-1.
In contrast, the Rams had lost 101 consecutive games when trailing by more than 14 points at any point in the second half. This was their first such win since 2006, when Marc Bulger and Isaac Bruce were still on the team.
Baltimore dominated the ground game all day in this matchup. Dallaswith a pair of Derrick Henry And Lamar Jackson is serving as a force to be reckoned with. Henry finished with 151 rush yards and two rushing scores, joining Jim Brown and LaDainian Tomlinson as the only players in NFL history to have 12 career games with 150 rush yards and multiple rushing touchdowns.
He also became the 10th player in NFL history to have 14 career games with 150 rush yards. Jackson himself added 87 rush yards and a rush score. The last time a team had a quarterback with 75 rush yards and a rush touchdown, as well as a running back with 150 rush yards and a rush touchdown in the same game, was the 2014 49ers (Colin Kaepernick and Frank Gore).
The duo also became the first duo to produce 250 rush yards in the team’s first three games since 1976. The two-time MVP has led the Ravens in rushing in each of the past five seasons, the most seasons by any quarterback as well as the longest streak by any quarterback in NFL history.
Miami is the only team in the league that hasn’t held a lead in regulation time in any game this season. They hit a game-winning field goal in Week 1 as time expired to get the win. JaguarThe 205 total yards of offense against the Seahawks was the fewest in the Mike McDaniel era, and the third-fewest of any team in Week 3 (through games played on Sunday). The three points scored were also the fewest under McDaniel, and marked the first time they failed to score at least 10 points in a regular season game under him.
Carolina on the bench Bryce Young in favour of andy daltonAnd the 14-year veteran did not disappoint. The Panthers snapped a 10-game road losing streak, the longest active road losing streak in the NFL. Dalton threw all three of his touchdown passes in the first half, which equaled the number of touchdown passes Young had thrown in his previous 11 starts. Diontae Johnson He also recorded 122 receiving yards with Dalton under center, the highest total of his career.
Their 36 points were the most they had scored since Week 16 of the 2022 season, and the most by any team in Week 3 (until Sunday’s games).
Mahomes made history
Patrick Mahomes added another record to his career, recording his 77th career win as a starting quarterback. This tied him with Tom Brady and Roger Staubach for the most wins by a quarterback in his first 100 starts.
He is one of four quarterbacks to post a 3-0 record this season, along with Sam Darnold. Geno SmithAnd Justin Fields. These three quarterbacks have a combined career record of 70-99 (41.4%) as a starter. With a 77-22 record of their own, that means Mahomes could lose his next 86 starts and still have a better record than that.
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