The Week 6 slate in the NFL featured some downright ugly football. Some of the best teams in the league suffered brutal losses. Meanwhile, a handful of players put up some truly disastrous performances in front of a national audience.
But which players had the worst performances of the week? And could any of the developments from last weekend have major ramifications for the rest of the season?
Below we will explore some of the biggest losers from Week 6 of the 2025 NFL season.
The 49ers have had some terrible injury luck over the past few seasons.
San Francisco has already seen major stars like Brock Purdy, George Kittle, and Nick Bosa all suffer injuries during the first month of the season.
The situation got even worse in Week 6 after they lost another key defensive piece.
Fred Warner will undergo surgery and miss the rest of the season after suffering a broken and dislocated ankle on Sunday.
NFL teams always have a “next man up” mentality. However, losing two players like Warner and Bosa could become a massive problem for San Francisco’s defense.
The 49ers are positioned well at 4-2, but so are the Seahawks and Rams.
San Francisco’s offense will be under a ton of pressure to pick up the slack after Warner’s season-ending injury.
The remaining games between the 49ers, Seahawks, and Rams could end up deciding the winner of the NFC West later this season.
Fields put up one of the worst stat lines in recent memory against the Broncos in Week 6.
The veteran quarterback went 9-of-17 passing for only 45 yards on Sunday. But when you factor in his nine sacks taken, the Jets actually finished with -10 passing yards. Perhaps that explains why the Jets keep insisting on establishing the run.
Realistically, this was a fluky performance. Field exceeded 200 passing yards in three games this season, and has not yet thrown an interception. So it would be reductive to call him a terrible quarterback based on one game.
But that won’t comfort Jets fans, especially after the team came so close to picking up their first win of the season.
Aaron Glenn does not want to bench Field despite his poor performance.
“When you look at what Justin did, the games that he played,” Glenn told reporters. “Listen, I didn’t think he was bad at all. I actually thought he did some pretty good things in those four games. In this fifth game, he took a step back. I’m with you guys 100 percent. And we can’t have that. And we have to get better than that. And he knows that. Ann he knows that better than anyone. So I don’t think you try to bench a player after having one true bad game. Because I thought the other games he played fairly well.”
Jets fans better hope that Fields looks...