2018 Division Leaders Through Week 9! pic.twitter.com/89RnI30x2r
— NFL (@NFL) November 6, 2018
Every NFL team has played at least half of the 16-game schedule. Let’s check in with all of them!
NE – RB James White already has 4 TD runs this season after scoring only 2 run TDs in his first four NFL seasons combined.
MIA – The Dolphins are 0-3 when they allow more than 170 run yards.
NYJ – The Jets don’t have a single receiver with 400 yards through nine games.
BUF – Bills QBs rookie Josh Allen, Nathan Peterman, and Derek Anderson have combined for 3 TD and 16 INT.
PIT – WR JuJu Smith-Schuster has a team-leading 672 receiving yards, and WR Antonio Brown has 9 TD receptions.
CIN – WR Tyler Boyd has 5 TD receptions this season after scoring only 3 in his first two seasons combined.
BAL – The Ravens are 3-0 when they allow fewer than 200 pass yards.
CLE – The Browns are 0-4-1 when they allow at least 130 run yards.
HOU – The Texans are 4-0 when they allow fewer than 100 run yards.
TEN – None of Tennessee’s TEs have 80 receiving yards for the season yet.
IND – The Colts are allowing 72.4 percent of passes to be completed.
JAX – RB T.J. Yeldon and QB Blake Bortles have only 1 TD run each, and those are the only run TDs the Jaguars have scored this season.
KC – QB Patrick Mahomes already has 29 TD passes this season; the single-season franchise record for pass TD in a season is 30 by HOF Len Dawson in 1964.
LAC – RB Melvin Gordon is averaging 5.4 yards per run after averaging fewer than 4.0 yards per run each of his first three NFL seasons.
DEN – The Broncos are 0-4 when they allow at least 98 run yards.
OAK – The Raiders have a league-low 7 sacks, and they just released Bruce Irvin, who had 3.0 of them.
WAS – Washington has multiple sacks from 3-4 DL (DE Matt Ioannidis has 6.5, DE Jonathan Allen has 4.0, and NT Da’Ron Payne has 3.0).
PHI – Seven players have multiple sacks, led by DT Fletcher Cox (4.0).
DAL – No Cowboys receiver has 400 receiving yards.
NYG – QB Eli Manning has a career-low TD percentage of 2.5.
CHI – The only run TD the Bears have allowed this season was a garbage time one-yard run from a Bills QB.
MIN – WR Adam Thielen is averaging 105.2 receiving yards per game; WR Rod Smith is the only undrafted player in the Super Bowl era to average at least 100.0 receiving yards per game in a season.
GB – The Packers have allowed 9 run TD, all of them 8 yards or fewer.
DET – The Lions have allowed 16 TDs against only 3 INTs.
NO – The Saints lead the league with 14 run TDs.
CAR – The Panthers lead the league with 5.2 yards per run.
ATL – WR Julio Jones is averaging a league-leading 116.6 receiving yards per game.
TB – The Buccaneers are allowing a passer rating of 124.3; the worst of all time was set in 2015 by the Saints (116.2).
LA – RB Todd Gurley leads the league with 96.4 run yards per game.
SEA – The Seahawks are 4-2 when allowing fewer than 300 pass yards.
ARI – The Cardinals have failed to run for at least 100 yards as a team in each game.
SF – The 49ers have allowed 18 pass TD against only 2 INTs.
Teams of the Week:
NE, PIT, HOU, KC
PHI, CHI, NO, SF
Winning units:
SF pass offense (TE George Kittle)
PIT pass defense (CB Mike Hilton)
CHI offensive line (QB Mitchell Trubisky)
CAR run offense (RB Christian McCaffrey)
KC run offense (RB Kareem Hunt)
MIA pass rush (OLB Jerome Baker)
MIN run defense (DE Danielle Hunter)
ATL pass offense (RB Tevin Coleman)
HOU special teams (K Ka’imi Fairbairn)
LAC run offense (RB Melvin Gordon)
NO run offense (RB Alvin Kamara)
NE run offense (RB James White)
TEN run offense (QB Marcus Mariota)
Looking ahead to Week 10
Open Date – Baltimore, Denver, Houston, Minnesota
The Ravens are under .500, and they are the last of the five teams to draft a first round QB in 2018 to start him, so the Joe Flacco to Lamar Jackson clock is ticking loudly. The Broncos have drafted five QBs under John Elway (since 2011), including two in the first three rounds, and none of them are on the roster anymore. Seven of Houston’s nine games have been decided by seven points or fewer, including all three losses. The Vikings are 5-0 when they allow 21 points or fewer, 0-3-1 when they don’t.
Panthers at Pittsburgh: Panthers owner David Tepper was formerly a Steelers minority owner. The Panthers are 0-3 in Pittsburgh, and they have never scored more than 20 points in six previous meetings. It will be a matchup to see which second-year RB performs best between Christian McCaffrey and James Conner.
Saints at Cincinnati: Dez Bryant is a Saint, but he still didn’t catch it. Cincinnati’s offense will be without WR AJ Green for most of November. The Bengals have a significant logistics advantage coming off a bye, but it won’t matter if they can’t stop RB Alvin Kamara.
Seahawks at Los Angeles Rams: Out of Seattle’s last 14 games dating back to last season, the Rams have two highest scoring totals against the Seahawks. The Rams dropped 468 yards on Seattle last month despite not having any contributions from WR Brandin Cooks.
Cowboys at Philadelphia: The Eagles have major logistical advantages, as the Cowboys are traveling after a short week while Philadelphia rested. This will be the debut of WR Golden Tate, but expect a defensive struggle.
Giants at San Francisco: Yeah, the NFL messed this one up.