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- It can be difficult to guess which team is currently projected to be the No. 1 seed in the playoffs.
- Young Patriots QB Drake Maye has a grainy, but rare, historic feel.
- Remember “Tank for Two”? Do you remember who was drafted after the Dolphins QB?
32 things we learned from Week 6 of the 2025 NFL season:
0. The number of wins the New York Jets have earned since former QB Aaron Rodgers’ last game with the team, Jan. 5, remains to be seen. Rookie coach Aaron Glenn, currently 0-6, was already the first head man in team history to start his career 0-5.
1. Number of undrafted players with at least 200 yards from scrimmage in consecutive games since the AFL-NFL merger in 1970. That would be Carolina Panthers running back Rico Doodle. He followed up his 234-yard performance in Week 5 with another 239 yards (+1 TD) on Sunday, getting revenge against his former team, the Dallas Cowboys. He is the only player to reach 200 yards in consecutive seasons over the past five seasons. Doodle, who rushed for nearly 1,100 yards with Dallas in 2024 but was not re-signed, has started the past two games in place of injured Chuba Hubbard, both narrow wins at Carolina.
1a. Doodle’s big day also marked the most yards from scrimmage ever recorded by a player against his former team…ever.
2. The top two picks in the 2024 NFL Draft, Chicago Bears QB Caleb Williams and Washington Commanders QB Jaden Daniels, will face off for the second time in two seasons on Monday night outside of the nation’s capital. Last year’s matchup ended with Daniels throwing a game-winning Hail Mary that propelled the Commanders to the NFC title game, but Chicago suffered a blowout loss in 10 games.
3. But the third player taken off the 2024 draft board, New England Patriots QB Drake Maye, is putting together a pretty good case that he could end up being the best player. Maye tied a career high with three TD passes in Sunday’s 25-19 loss to the New Orleans Saints. His 140.1 passer rating was the second-best of his young tenure.
4. And while it’s a pretty minor accomplishment, thanks to analytics and Major League Baseball for the rise of the esoteric fact, Maye joins Patrick Mahomes, Dak Prescott and Dan Marino as the only passers to gain at least 200 passing yards. and Must have a passer rating of 100.0 or higher in 5 consecutive games by his 24th birthday. Of course it’s a good company.
5. The number of wins the Indianapolis Colts have won in their first six games is the number of wins they last achieved in Hall of Fame QB Peyton Manning’s prime (2009), a season that ended in Super Bowl XLIV.
5a. If the season ended now, which it doesn’t, the Colts and Tampa Bay Buccaneers would be the No. 1 playoff seeds.
6. Indianapolis rookie Tyler Warren continues to be a big part of the Colts’ success, pacing the team with six catches for 63 yards and one TD in Sunday’s close game against the underdog Arizona Cardinals. The most notable thing about Warren is that he was able to carry over – let’s call it the use of a positionless tight end – from Penn State.
7. Remember when “Tank for Tua” was a hot topic before the 2020 NFL Draft? On Sunday, QB Tua Tagovailoa, a third-round pick of the Miami Dolphins he took with the fifth pick five years ago, called out his teammates after a 29-27 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers.
8. Tagovailoa was completely upstaged Sunday at South Florida by a player who chose to play second fiddle to Bolts QB Justin Herbert, who passed for 264 yards and two TDs as the team snapped a two-game losing streak. In the final minutes of the game, Herbert hit WR Rad McConkie for 42 yards, setting up LA’s winning field goal.
9. The Seattle Seahawks defeated the Jaguars 20-12 in Jacksonville on Sunday for a club-record nine-game road win streak, currently the longest in the NFL. Second-year coach Mike McDonald has a 10-1 overall record away from Seattle’s raucous Lumen Field…just four wins since the start of the 2024 season.
9a. The number of times the Broncos sacked Jets QB Justin Fields spanned eight different defenders, pushing Denver’s league-leading total to 30 times. Fields was sacked by Jonathon Cooper and Justin Strnado on New York’s final offensive play, but was 4-for-8 from the Denver 44-yard line…obviously not in defensive range of K. Nick Folk.
(Negative) 10. Fields threw 45 net passing yards for the Jets in a loss on Sunday. The Broncos’ nine sacks resulted in a total loss of 55 yards. This number marks the fewest passing yards in NYJ history and in the entire league this century, as well as the fewest passing yards allowed by Denver. Both teams were founded in 1960 as original members of the American Football League.
11. Number of consecutive games in which the Cleveland Browns did not score 17 or more points. They are 1-10 in that span after Sunday’s 23-9 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers.
12. Browns rookie QB Dillon Gabriel threw the ball 52 times Sunday, all for 221 yards, or 4.3 yards per attempt. That doesn’t even include the 38 yards he lost in the six sacks he suffered.
13. Still, coach Kevin Stefanski chose not to give promoted rookie backup QB Shedule Sanders a chance to make his NFL regular season debut.
14. Elsewhere in the AFC North, former Browns QB1 Joe Flacco, now a starter for the Cincinnati Bengals following a trade last Tuesday, needed 45 passes for 219 yards (and 2 TDs) in his Cincy debut.
15. Unfortunately, the Burrow-less, Flacco-filled Bengals were only able to change stripes and still couldn’t run the ball (55 yards) or stop a nosebleed in Sunday’s 27-18 loss to the Green Bay Packers, who gained 409 yards.
16. Speaking of misfortune, you have to feel sorry for the San Francisco 49ers who got bitten by a snake at some point. On Sunday, they lost All-Pro LB Fred Warner to a dislocated and fractured ankle that will require surgery and will undoubtedly be season-ending.
17. Number of points scored by Chargers K’s Cameron Dicker on Sunday. He made all five field goal attempts and both PATs. Dicker is currently the most accurate kicker in NFL history, shooting 94.6 percent from the field. He was perfect on all 14 FG attempts in 2025.
18. other places How bad did things get for the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC North? They held the Los Angeles Rams to 17 points, held them to two catches before WR Puka Nacua got injured, and still lost by 14 points.
19. It could help give the ball to RB Derrick Henry near the goal line and force the Eagles to do some tush pushing.
20. But there’s no need to worry too much. Ravens fans, injured QB Lamar Jackson should be ready to go to relief with reinforcements following the team’s Week 7 (and Week 6) bye.
twenty one. other places In the AFC North, Pittsburgh currently has the same number of wins (4 wins) as the rest of the division combined. Weft.
twenty two. The number of consecutive times the Steelers have defeated the Browns in Pittsburgh in the regular season dates back to 2003. The Browns, led by then-QB Baker Mayfield, won a playoff game at Acrizier Stadium during the 2020 postseason.
twenty three. The Steelers are turning veteran DB Jalen Ramsey into a very versatile weapon. The seven-time Pro Bowler, acquired from the Dolphins in the summer, was spread throughout Pittsburgh’s defense and recorded his first multi-sack game in 10 years on Sunday.
twenty four. Despite losing Warner and dealing with a myriad of other injuries, including QB1 Brock Purdy missing Sunday’s game, the Niners are getting a lot out of Christian McCaffrey. McCaffrey became the first running back to reach at least 100 yards from scrimmage in a team’s first six games since Saquon Barkley did so with the New York Giants in 2018.
twenty five. CMC is also the first Bucs to record at least 50 receiving yards in the team’s first six games of the season. He has 46 catches already this season, tying him with Matt Forte (2014) and Alvin Kamara (2020) for the most catches by a running back in six games in a season.
26. What kind of company is Maxx Crosby? He had two sacks in the Las Vegas Raiders’ win over the Tennessee Titans on Sunday. But here’s the bigger context: Crosby now has 10 tackles for loss in 2025, joining Jared Allen and Aaron Donald as the only players in the 21st century to have at least 10 TFLs in their first seven seasons.
27. The latest feather in Mahomes’ immortal cap? On Sunday night, in the 138th game of his career (including the postseason), he threw his 300th TD pass, reaching the benchmark nine games ahead of Rodgers, who had previously been the fastest player to reach that mark.
28. Number of 1 p.m. kickoffs the Seahawks have had on the East Coast in the past 10 years. They are 22-6 in those games.
29. Six days after Monday night’s win over the Chiefs, it was the hometown Jags who were looking jet-lagged. They entered Week 6 with a league-high 14 points, but for the first time this season they failed to score a single point in a game. They also committed 10 penalties and gave QB Trevor Lawrence seven sacks.
30. And while Jaguars rookie wide receiver/CB Travis Hunter’s influence may continue to be questioned, his dual duties put him on the same team as Hall of Famer Deion Sanders, who was also Hunter’s head coach at the University of Colorado. According to OptaSTATS, Hunter became the first NFL player to catch at least four passes and record multiple tackles on defense in the same game since Sanders did so 29 years ago.
31. But let’s put that (relative) negative aside for the 4-2 Jags’ best moment Sunday — when DE Josh Hynes-Allen’s son, a cancer survivor, took part in the pregame coin toss. The NFL always faces backlash, but the league is forever flexing its muscles with its “Crucial Catch” campaign.
32. What has been your MVP through six weeks? The Bucs’ Mayfield continues to hit TD passes to players downfield (Cameron Johnson and Tez Johnson on Sunday against San Francisco) for NFC-leading Tampa Bay, even as the Bucs continue to lose wideouts to injury, including rookie Emeka Egbuka (hamstring) on Sunday.
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