Sky Sports Cricket statistician – and huge Buffalo Bills fan – Benedict Bermange dives into the 2024 NFL season to pick the best stats from each week…
Patrick Mahomes led the Kansas City Chiefs to another victory – this time over the Carolina Panthers to move to 9-0 in the regular season against the NFC South in his career. Coincidentally Jared Goff is also currently 9-0 against the NFC South.
Mahomes’ only career loss to an NFC South team was the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Super Bowl LV.
The Chicago Bears lost to the Minnesota Vikings in overtime, but Caleb Williams set a franchise rookie record with 10 touchdown passes, surpassing the previous marks set by Jim McMahon in 1982 and Kyle Orton in 2005. Williams ended his streak of 165 passes without one. touchdown or interception, the longest by anyone in NFL history when he tied with DJ Moore for a touchdown in the fourth quarter.
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Saquon Barkley had a career-high 302-yard, 2-touchdown game against the Los Angeles Rams
The Houston Texans managed to lose to the Tennessee Titans despite having eight sacks, three takeaways and a pick-six. The last team to post those numbers and end up losing was the Cleveland Browns when they lost to the Jacksonville Jaguars in Week 14 of the 2001 season. They may have missed a 28-yarder, but Ka’imi Fairbairn managed to convert 12 field goals from 50 yards this season, set a new NFL record.
The Detroit Lions’ win over the Indianapolis Colts was their ninth in a row, the longest winning streak in a season since they won 10 in a row in 1934. They have now scored a rushing touchdown in 25 straight games, tying their own NFL record. .
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Speaking on the Inside The Huddle podcast, Neil Reynolds and Jeff Reinebold said that Patrick Mahomes finally winning his last game for the Kansas City Chiefs further proves his elite status in the game.
Jahmyr Gibbs and David Montgomery, who took the nicknames Sonic and Knuckles, became the first duo-mate to each record at least 10 rushing touchdowns in two different seasons, having also completed the feat in 2023.
The Dallas Cowboys snapped a five-game losing streak with a win against the Washington Commanders who scored 31 points in the final 3:30 of the fourth quarter. CeeDee Lamb broke the tie for the most successful game with the most four receptions in NFL history.
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Highlights of the Dallas Cowboys vs. Washington Commanders from Week 12 of the NFL season
Brandon Aubrey missed two field goals in the first quarter of the game after missing just two the entire 2023 season; four of his seven career missed field goals have come in games at Washington.
Saquon Barkley’s 255 yards rushing for the Philadelphia Eagles against the Los Angeles Rams set a new franchise record and he became just the fourth Eagles player to total at least 200 yards in a single game.
Barkley became the first player since Maurice Jones-Drew for the Jaguars against the Titans in 2009 to have two rushing touchdowns of at least 70 yards in the same game. He also became the first player to have at least 500 scrimmage yards in two consecutive games since Walter Payton in 1977.
Watch eight NFL games live on Sky Sports in Week 13, including the Kansas City Chiefs against the Las Vegas Raiders at 8pm on Black Friday before the Philadelphia Eagles face the Baltimore Ravens at 9.25pm Sunday followed by the Buffalo Bills against the San Francisco 49ers
