NFL Week 10: 11 Stats That Defined a Fascinating Week of Football

With the second half of the 2025 NFL season underway, the first week’s slate of games were filled with statements being made, and MVP frontrunners further polishing their résumés.Following a relatively lackluster Thursday night game between the Las Vegas Raiders and Denver Broncos, the Indianapolis Colts beat the Atlanta Falcons in an overtime thriller in Berlin to start the day, while the Los Angeles Chargers thrashed the Pittsburgh Steelers to end the night. Colts running back Jonathan Taylor put up one of the season’s best performances in that banger — or as they say in German, “knaller” — of a matchup against the Falcons. Taylor’s Sunday performance was examined in detail here. Let’s look at some of his statistics and other nuggets from Week 10 that were notable in the NFL. Jonathan Taylor is only one of three NFL players who have played multiple games in their career with 240+ rushing yardage, alongside Corey Dillon. Simpson. In addition, he is the fourth NFL player ever to have more than 7,000 rush yards and at least 70 touchdowns, after Emmitt Brown, Jim Brown, LaDainian Tolinson. Taylor rushed for a total of 244 yard and three touchdowns as the Colts won in overtime in Berlin. Three New England Patriots rookies scored 50-yard or more offensive touchdowns on Sunday. The last time that happened was in 1998 by the Minnesota Vikings — Randy Moss scored all three touchdowns on Thanksgiving. TreVeyon henderson ran for both scores and Kyle Williams scored his first career touchdown with a 72 yard touchdown catch in the Patriots win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Houston Texans won their fifth comeback game this season, extending NFL record of most in a single season (it was never more than three before 2025). The Texans came back to defeat the Jaguars after a 29-10 loss. Jahmyr Gibbs, the Detroit Lions’ running back, is now the fifth NFL player to surpass 40+ scrimmage scores before turning 24. Joining Barry Sanders, Emmitt, Smith and Jim Brown. Gibbs scored three touchdowns in the Lions’ win over the Washington Commanders. 5. Seventy seven players have had 20,000 yards of pass in 100 games since 1970. Since 1970, eighty-six different players have had 6,000 rushing yard in 100 games. Only one has done both: Baltimore Ravens QB Lamar Jackson, who made his 100th career start in Sunday’s win over the Vikings. 6. Matthew Stafford, quarterback of the Los Angeles Rams, is the only player in NFL’s history to have four or more touchdown passes with zero interceptions for three consecutive games. He also became the ninth quarterback in NFL history to reach 400-plus career touchdown passes, throwing four touchdowns in the Rams’ win over the San Francisco 49ers. 7. The three games in the late window averaged 66.7 combined points per game, the most in any window (early/late/primetime) with multiple games since at least 2000. On top of the Rams’ 42-26 win, both the Seattle Seahawks and Lions picked up 44-22 wins over the Arizona Cardinals and Commanders, respectively. 8. Sam Darnold, the Seahawks’ quarterback, is only the second player in history to have an 80% success rate and 13 yards for every attempt. Kurt Warner was also the first. 10 att.). Warner did it in 1999, when he won MVP and Super Bowl MVP. 9. Seahawks wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba passed Julio Jones for the most receiving yards by a player in their team’s first nine games of a season in the Super Bowl era on Sunday. He logged 93 receiving yards against the Cardinals, giving him 1,041 receiving yards on the season. 10. Cardinals QB Jacoby Brissett recorded 258 yard, two touchdowns, and zero interceptions in a loss to the Seahawks by 22 points. He’s the seventh quarterback in NFL history to have 250-plus passing yards, two-plus passing touchdowns and zero interceptions and have his team lose by 22 or more, and the first since 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick in 2015.11. Trey McBride, the Cardinals’ tight end, has five or more receptions in each of nine consecutive games. He is tied with Jason Witten as having the longest streak in NFL history for a tight-end. McBride’s nine receptions on Sunday totaled 127 yards, and he scored a touchdown. Want the best stories sent straight to your inbox every day? Follow leagues, players, and teams to receive daily personalized emails!
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