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NFL Week 5 is drawing to a close, meaning we’re more than a quarter of way into the 2025 NFL season. With more than 70 games having already taken place in these last few weeks, there are plenty of NFL stats to sort through across the league.
Today, we’re highlighting some of the wildest NFL stats from across the league. From numbers put up in Week 5o to recent performances by teams and players, there are some eye-popping statistics throughout the NFL.
Historically, scoring is down early in the season as it typically takes offenses more time to find a rhythm while defenses come out firing out of the gate. That’s not the case early in the 2025 NFL season. Through five weeks, NFL teams are averaging 23.4 points per game. It would be the highest scoring average since 2020. That’s not where the history comes in. According to NFL.com, there have been 14 games where a team scored 40-plus points after Week 5. It’s the most through five weeks in league history, with the Dallas Cowboys, Indianapolis Colts, and Baltimore Ravens responsible for a pair of those 40-burgers.
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While the likes of Myles Garrett and Micah Parsons get most of the national attention, Denver Broncos edge rusher Nik Bonitto is the one on a record-breaking pace. The former 64th pick in the 2022 NFL Draft, Bonitto leads the NFL with 7 sacks this season after recording 1.5 or more sacks in each of his last three games. He’s currently on pace for 24 sacks in a 17-game season, which would shatter the record (22.5) held by Michael Strahan and T.J. Watt.
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Spencer Rattler’s victory over the New York Giants in Week 5 was so much more than just the first win of the season for the New Orleans Saints and the first victory in the head-coaching career for Kellen Moore. That’s right, per CBS Sports, it was the first time a quarterback drafted by the Saints had won a game for the franchise since Danny Wuerffel in 1998. Prior to that, it had all been free-agent signings (Drew Brees, Jameis Winston , Derek Carr and Andy Dalton) and trade acquisitions (Teddy Bridgewater and Aaron Brooks) who were winning games for this franchise.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are rolling this season, with quarterback Baker Mayfield playing at an NFL MVP-caliber level and making history in the process. In the Week 5 win over Seattle, Mayfield threw for 379 yards and completed 29-of-33 passes. He became just the third player in NFL history to throw...
