Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Week Eight Stats of the Week

Stat of the week No. 1: Steven Jackson (51 TDs) joined Marshall Faulk (58) and Eric Dickerson (56) as the only Rams with 50+ rushing touchdowns.

Stat of the week No. 2: Ben Roethlisberger is the fourth-fastest to reach 75 wins (106 games) among quarterbacks in the Super Bowl era trailing Roger Staubach (99 games), Tom Brady (99 games) and Ken Stabler (105 games).

Stat of the week No. 3: Baltimore’s win marks the fifth time this season that a team trailed by at least 20 points and came back to win, which is the most in one season in NFL history.

Stat of the week No. 4: Cam Newton became the fourth rookie quarterback since 1960 with five games of at least 250 yards passing (Peyton Manning, Sam Bradford, Matt Ryan).

Stat of the week No. 5: Adrian Peterson joined Jim Brown, Emmitt Smith and LaDainian Tomlinson as the only running backs ever with at least 750 rushing yards and eight touchdowns in each of their first five seasons.

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