Hidden Stat Line: NFL Week 7 Recap

Men lie. Women lie. Numbers only sometimes lie.

Week 7 QB Leaders

(stats from NFL Next Gen Stats, Pro Football Focus and ESPN)

2019 QB Leaders

(stats from NFL Next Gen Stats, Pro Football Focus and ESPN)

Week 7 RB Leaders

(stats from RotoWire, PFF and airyards.com)

2019 RB Leaders

(stats from RotoWire, PFF and airyards.com)

Note: target share only includes games the player played in. Excludes players on IR.

Week 7 WR Leaders

(Stats from airyards.com)

2019 WR Leaders

(Stats from airyards.com)

Note: target share and air-yard share only includes games the player played in. Excludes players on IR.

Week 7 TE Leaders

(Stats from airyards.com and PFF)

2019 TE Leaders

(Stats from airyards.com and PFF)

Note: target share and air-yard share only includes games the player played in. Excludes players on IR.

Feedback is encouraged! Time constraints are a factor for every breakdown apart from the Thursday night game, so I'm happy to discuss anything I missed in the comments below or on twitter (@RotowireNFL_JD).

Chiefs 30 Broncos 6

Chiefs

• Matt Moore's aDOT was 7.1, with his 19 passes yielding five targets for Tyreek Hill, four for Travis Kelce, three for Demarcus Robinson, two for Damien Williams and one apiece for Blake Bell, Darrel Williams, LeSean McCoy and Mecole Hardman.
• Moore's last significant NFL action came with the Dolphins in 2016 and 2017, when he completed 62.1 percent of his passes for 7.4 YPA in eight games (2-3 as a starter), with 12 touchdowns, eight interceptions and 13 sacks. He's shown some ability to move the ball throughout his career, but the INT rate (3.6) and sack rate (7.4) — not to mention subpar physical tools — show why he's had just one extended opportunity as a starter (back in 2011). It also isn't a great sign that he was only signed as an emergency plan after Chad Henne suffered an ankle fracture during the preseason. There's also this:

• LeSean McCoy led the backfield in snaps (43 percent) and carries (12), adding two catches for 12 yards on two targets. He carried the ball on KC's first two snaps and was quite clearly the top option on early downs.
• Darrel Williams had two carries and two targets on 30 percent of snaps, getting the vast majority of playing time on 3rd-and-longs and 3rd-and-mediums. The Chiefs didn't have a hurry-up/two-minute drill in this one, but that also was Darrel's domain the previous few weeks.
• Damien Williams had nine carries and three targets on 28 percent of snaps, including KC's final four carries of the game, i.e., he got a garbage-time boost. He got a target and a carry inside the 5-yard line on consecutive plays, but the overall picture suggests he can be dropped in many fantasy leagues. McCoy is the top ballcarrier and Darrel Williams the top choice on obvious passing downs, leaving Damien Williams with an awkward, in-between role that may barely exist some weeks. He even ran fewer routes (seven) than both McCoy (11) and Darrel (13) on Thursday, per PFF.
• Tyreek Hill played 87 percent of snaps, up from 50 percent the week before. He's still fast.

• Demarcus Robinson played 80 percent and ran 31 routes on 34 team dropbacks, ahead of Mecole Hardman (48 percent, 19 routes) and Byron Pringle (23 percent, five routes), per PFF.
• It feels like an eternity ago, but this isn't the first time we've seen Travis Kelce post an unusually high ratio of yards (541) to touchdowns (one). He had an 85-1,125-4 receiving line in 2016, completing a three-year run with just 14 touchdowns from 224 catches and 2,862 yards.

Broncos

• Joe Flacco took a career-high eight sacks, just four weeks after he set a new personal worst with six in a loss to the Packers. As a Ravens fan, I was shocked to see that he never took more than five in a game throughout his 163-start tenure in Baltimore. His 9.1 percent sack rate this season would easily be the worst of his career, marking the first time he's been over five percent since 2013.
• Flacco fell apart after he was sacked a few times, consistently throwing off his back foot or scrambling backward, even when he had plenty of time to stand strong in the pocket. He also threw a couple hospital balls, including one to Phillip Lindsay with four minutes remaining in a 24-point game. Lindsay was rightfully furious, immediately berating Flacco on the field... it was hilarious.
• I was surprised to see Broncos right tackle Elijah Wilkinson get a bad-but-not-disgraceful PFF grade (60.9) for Thursday's game. In addition to allowing three sacks, there were two instances of Wilkinson giving up easy batted passes because he was pushed so far back into Flacco. Wilkinson also appeared to get away with a couple early jumps off the line and one blatant hold on a run play, perhaps receiving some sympathy from the officials. The 24-year-old has been filling in for Ja'Wuan James, who suffered a knee injury Week 1 after signing a four-year, $51 million contract this past offseason. The Broncos expect James to return for Week 8 against Indianapolis, providing a much-needed upgrade.
• Royce Freeman played 63 percent of snaps to Phillip Lindsay's 40 percent, with Lindsay having an 11-to-10 advantage in carries while Freeman held a five-to-one edge in targets and 27-to-10 edge in pass routes, per PFF.
• Lindsay has led the team in carries each week this season, but he's never been more than six ahead of Freeman, so the overall gap is just 19. Meanwhile, Freeman played more snaps each of the past four weeks, drawing 18 targets on 78 routes, compared to nine targets on 43 routes for Lindsay, per PFF.
• Lindsay pass-blocks like a guy who's giving up 50 pounds to the defender he's trying to block. He's willing, but not competent, allowing seven pressures on just 12 pass-blocking snaps this season, per PFF. Like it or hate it, the Broncos are probably justified in taking Lindsay off the field in favor of Freeman, even though the former is clearly a better runner.
• Courtland Sutton played 96 percent of snaps, and Emmanuel Sanders played 88 percent. Sanders had been limited to 63 and 42 percent the previous two weeks while dealing with a knee injury. He's seen 40 targets in his five healthy games, with Sutton drawing 39 targets in those same games. Of course, the 24-year-old has produced 10.4 YPT, compared to 8.3 for his veteran teammate. All other Broncos with more than two targets are at 6.7 YPT or worse.
• Noah Fant played 72 percent of snaps, tying No. 3 receiver DaeSean Hamilton for third on the team with 29 routes on Flacco's 42 dropbacks, per PFF. The rookie tight end saw a career-high five targets, but he finished with just one catch for seven yards and was charged with his first two drops of the season, per PFF.

Texans 23 Colts 30

Texans

• Deshaun Watson had his second-worst QBR (45.0) this season, despite completing 67.6 percent of passes for 9.1 YPA. He took three sacks after back-to-back weeks without any, and the first of his two interceptions was a terrible throw. The second INT, which ended the game, bounced out of Keke Coutee's hands and into Darius Leonard's. PFF gave Watson his third-best grade (85.9) of the year, making it six times in seven games he's graded out at 73.0 or higher.
• Duke Johnson got the start and played 60 percent of snaps, his largest share since Week 4. He had seven carries and five targets, while Carlos Hyde had 12 carries and one target on 40 percent. Hyde still has double-digit carries in every game with Houston.
• With Will Fuller (hamstring) exiting after three plays, Kenny Stills (94 percent) and Coutee (69 percent) both handled season-high snap shares. Stills logged 11 plays in the slot, compared to 31 for Coutee, per PFF. Coutee scored his four-yard TD as the pitch man on a triple option.
• DeAndre Hopkins had his first touchdown and first 100-yard game since Week 1.
• Jordan Akins and Darren Fells both played 65 percent of snaps, with the former running 27 routes on Watson's 40 dropbacks while the latter ran 18 routes, per PFF. The tight ends drew two targets apiece.

Colts

• Jacoby Brissett finished with his second-best QBR (68.8) and second-best PFF grade (71.8) of the season, with an 8.4 YPA matching his previous high from Week 3 against Atlanta. His lost fumble came on a botched snap, and he completed three of six passes 20-plus yards downfield, per PFF. A 7.9 aDOT was his second longest of the year, behind 11.0 from a Week 4 loss to Oakland. Brissett has taken just two sacks in his past four games.

• Marlon Mack played 71 percent of snaps, with Jordan Wilkins (18 percent) getting more playing time than Nyheim Hines (12 percent) for the first time all year. Wilkins only had three touches, but a bunch of his snaps came in the red zone, including one on a 3rd-and-5. His ability to handle passing downs could push Hines out of the offense altogether.

• Zach Pascal went for 6-106-2 on just 47 percent of snaps, running 18 routes on Brissett's 41 dropbacks, per PFF.
• T.Y. Hilton led the team with 40 routes, followed by Jack Doyle (30), Chester Rogers (23), Deon Cain (19), Pascal (18), Mack (17), Eric Ebron (16), Wilkins (nine) and Hines (seven).
• Pascal leads the team this season with 2.39 yards per route, while Cain is last on the team with 0.39, per PFF. Maybe it's time to end that timeshare?
• Hilton committed his first two drops of the season. He had just four in 2018 and four in 2017, per PFF.

Vikings 42 Lions 30

Vikings

• Kirk Cousins had his second-best QBR (87.1) and second-best PFF grade (92.4) of the season, but 9.9 YPA was actually his lowest mark in the past three weeks. His 12.9 aDOT in Week 6 led the league, and his 11.1 aDOT on Sunday was fourth longest of the week.
• Cousins now leads the league in both YPA (9.1) and touchdown percentage (6.9), with the fewest pass attempts (189) of any QB that has played seven games.

• Dalvin Cook played 70 percent of snaps, landing between 63 and 78 percent for a seventh time in as many weeks. His next game with fewer than 18 touches will be his first.
• Adam Thielen's early exit with a hamstring injury allowed Bisi Johnson to set career highs for targets (eight) and snap share (71 percent), with exactly four receptions for a third time in the past four games. The Vikings may have a legit No. 3 receiver for the first time in the Diggs/Thielen era.
• Stefon Diggs finished the day ranked No. 8 in receiving yards (562), with his 3.25 yards per route easily leading the league (nobody else is even at 3.0), per PFF. His 66-yard reception essentially iced the game, and it also boosted his aDOT for the season to 16.6, a massive change from last year's 8.6. However, he dropped a touchdown earlier in the game.
• Diggs ran a route on 29 of Cousins' 34 dropbacks Sunday, followed by Johnson (25), Cook (23), Kyle Rudolph (23) and Irv Smith Jr. (20).
• Rudolph's 5-58-1 receiving line on six targets gave him season highs in every category.
• Smith had season highs for targets (six), catches (five) and snap share (56 percent), though the latter wasn't really much of a difference given that he landed between 42 and 54 percent each of the previous six weeks. The rookie has caught 12 of 14 targets for 153 yards, with 1.59 yards per route putting him way ahead of Rudolph (0.90), per PFF.

Lions

• Matthew Stafford's 87.5 QBR was his best of the season, while a 72.5 overall grade from PFF put him in the 70s for a fifth straight game. He's on pace for 4,669 passing yards, 35 touchdowns and eight interceptions, completing 62.4 percent of passes (20th among 31 qualified QBs) for 8.0 YPA (8th).
• Stafford's 8.9 aDOT on Sunday was his shortest this year, but he still ranks third (10.5) for the season. His completion percentage is 2.2 percentage points above expectation based on the difficulty of his throws, per NFL Next Gen Stats.
• A knee injury forced Kerryon Johnson out of the game after 11 snaps, leaving Ty Johnson (64 percent) and J.D. McKissic (25 percent) to share backfield work. Ty had 57 scrimmage yards from 10 carries and four targets, while McKissic picked up 60 yards from five carries and three targets.
• Danny Amendola played 71 percent of snaps, going above 58 percent for the first time this season. He now has two 100-yard performances, while his other three games have featured a combined total of five catches for 43 yards on seven targets.
• Marvin Jones ran 47 routes on Stafford's 48 dropbacks, followed by Kenny Golladay (42), Amendola (39), Ty Johnson (29), T.J. Hockenson (29), Jesse James (11), McKissic (nine) and Marvin Hall (six), per PFF.
• Golladay has run 0.88 routes per Stafford dropback the past two weeks, compared to 0.94 over the first four games, per PFF. That's not a huge difference, but it does seem he's losing a few opportunities to Hall, while Jones has held steady at 0.94 routes/DB over both stretches.
• Golladay drew just two targets, ending a seven-game streak with eight or more dating back to last season. He still leads the team in target share (22 percent) and air-yard share (29 percent), but 8.2 YPT and a 53.2 percent catch rate don't compare favorably to Jones — 9.2 YPT, 71.4 percent catch rate.
• Jones converted four of his five red-zone targets into scores Sunday, giving him his second career game with four TDs (Oct. 2013 for the Bengals). The one red-zone target that wasn't a TD was a drop in the end zone, but he scored a few seconds later.
• Hockenson hasn't topped six targets, four catches or 32 yards since his Week 1 explosion, but a 67 percent snap share Sunday was a slight improvement from 56 and 54 percent in his last two games. He was at 71 and 78 percent the first two weeks of the season, with 0.71 routes per dropback. Hockenson is down to 0.50 routes/DB the past four games.
• The Lions defense now ranks 23rd in net yards per pass attempt (6.9), 27th in YPC (4.9), 26th in QB pressure rate (18.0 percent) and 30th in sack rate (4.0 percent). Tough matchups have been a factor, but there's no schedule difficult enough to justify those numbers.

Raiders 24 Packers 42

Raiders

• Derek Carr set season highs for passing yards (293) and YPA (10.5), but he was limited to 28 pass attempts as the Raiders continued to run the ball even while trailing by multiple scores in the second half. (They ran the ball well, but it nonetheless felt like a cowardly effort at "score management" by Jon Gruden, who apparently switched his priorities from 'winning' to 'avoiding a blowout' once he saw what Aaron Rodgers was doing.)
• Josh Jacobs played 54 percent of snaps, with 21 carries and three targets on his 37 plays. He's now seen a carry or target on 56 percent of his snaps this season, averaging 18.2 rush attempts, 1.8 targets and 35.8 snaps per game.
• Jalen Richard got two carries and a target on 23 percent of snaps, while DeAndre Washington had six carries and a target on 21 percent. Richard remains limited to obvious passing situations, with Washington functioning as the No. 2 ball carrier (worth remembering in the event of a Jacobs injury later this season).
• Darren Waller played 92 percent of snaps, leading the team with eight targets and 24 routes on 32 QB dropbacks, per PFF.
• Trevor Davis led the WRs with 76 percent of snaps and 22 routes, followed by Hunter Renfrow (45 percent, 16 routes), Keelan Doss (44 percent, 15 routes) and Marcell Ateman (35 percent, 13).
• No. 2 tight end Foster Moreau ran 14 routes on 48 percent of snaps, while No. 3 tight end Derek Carrier (32 percent) and fullback Alec Ingold (24 percent) also got significant run.
• With Tyrell Williams (foot) inactive, the Raiders used 11 personnel on just 42 percent of snaps. Instead, they used 13 personnel (one RB, three TEs) on 24 percent of plays, and 21 or 22 personnel on 30 percent of plays.
• In the two games Williams has missed, the Raiders have nine players with three or more targets and seven players with six or more targets. Waller's 13 targets lead the way, followed by Renfrow (eight), Moreau (seven), Doss (seven), Jacobs (six), Davis (six), Carrier (six), Washington (four) and Richard (three).
• Waller has seen 21 percent target share in two games with Williams inactive, compared to 29 percent in the four games Williams played. That's probably just a matter of sample, along with the difficulty of any TE maintaining target share near 30 percent.

Packers

• Aaron Rodgers posted a 95.3 QBR, his best in a single game since Week 3 of 2016. His mark of 13.8 YPA bumped him up to 8.1 for the season, sixth best among qualified passers. He's ninth in QBR (63.0) and second in overall PFF grade (89.1), mounting a legitimate MVP case once we account for the impact of Green Bay's WR injuries.
• Aaron Jones played 57 percent of snaps, seeing 12 carries and four targets. He's caught four or more passes in four consecutive games and five of the last six.
• Jamaal Williams had three carries and five targets on 40 percent of snaps, with his second receiving touchdown in the past two weeks and third of the year.
• Dexter Williams got three carries on three consecutive garbage-time snaps late in Q4.
• Allen Lazard led the WRs with 85 percent of snaps and 28 routes on 34 Rodgers dropbacks, followed by Jake Kumerow (72 percent, 23 routes), Geronimo Allison (57 percent, 23 routes) and Marquez Valdes-Scantling (33 percent, 13 routes), per PFF.
• Jimmy Graham played just 55 percent of snaps but was second on the team with 26 routes. He's at 0.67 routes per dropback this season, well below the 0.8-0.95 range that's standard for solid TE1s.
• Jones leads the team with 19 targets in the three games with Davante Adams (toe) inactive, but that includes a game with eight targets when Jamaal Williams also was inactive (the four-TD performance in Dallas).
• RB workload split in the five games Jamaal Williams has been healthy:

         > Jones: 13.8 carries, 3.8 targets, 15.4 routes on 34.0 snaps per game.

         > J. Williams: 8.6 carries, 3.6 targets, 16.2 routes on 30.4 snaps per game

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Dolphins

• Ryan Fitzpatrick's 84.3 QBR was a season high for a Dolphins quarterback, and he's now completed 66.0 percent of passes for 7.8 YPA over the past two games.
• Mark Walton saw 14 carries and one target on 52 percent of snaps, while Kenyan Drake had six carries and four targets on 41 percent. Kalen Ballage was limited to three carries on seven percent, handling short-yardage and goal-line work (including a three-yard TD).
• Preston Williams played 90 percent of snaps, and DeVante Parker played 85 percent. Williams hasn't gone below 83 percent since Week 2, while Parker hasn't dropped below 76 percent at any point this year.
• Allen Hurns played 36 percent of snaps, ahead of Albert Wilson (24 percent), Jakeem Grant (10 percent) and Isaiah Ford (5 percent) for the No. 3 receiver job.
• Mike Gesicki's 4-41-0 receiving line gave him the two best games of his career in back-to-back weeks, but a 45 percent snap share actually was his second smallest of the year. His 23 routes put him a distant third behind Parker and Williams (37 apiece), per PFF.

Bills

• Josh Allen completed more than 60 percent of his passes for a fifth time in six games this season. His 62.4 completion percentage ranks 21st among 31 qualified passers, a big step forward from last year (52.8 percent, 33rd of 33). He hasn't been much better in other metrics, ranking 23rd in YPA (7.0), 21st in sack rate (7.4), 26th in INT rate (3.7), 25th in QBR (36.9) and 29th in PFF grade (60.5).
• Allen's 7.5 rush attempts per game are right on pace with the average from last year (7.5), but his YPC has dropped from 7.1 to 4.2.
• Frank Gore had 11 carries and one target on 54 percent of snaps, with Devin Singletary getting seven carries and no targets on 39 percent. (T.J. Yeldon was inactive.) Gore handled short-yardage work (there weren't any goal-line carries), and both RBs ran 12 routes, per PFF.
• John Brown played 95 percent of snaps and ran a route on each of Allen's 30 dropbacks. Brown has caught at least four passes for 51 yards in every game this season, producing 10.5 YPT in an offense that's managed just 7.0 YPA overall.
• Brown is 15th in league in air yards (636) and 14th in air-yard share (35 percent), but his 45 targets are one behind Cole Beasley (46 targets, 6.2 YPT) for the team lead.
• Beasley played 55 percent of snaps and ran 21 routes, followed by Duke Williams (54 percent, 19 routes) and Isaiah McKenzie (38 percent, 11 routes).
• Dawson Knox was limited to 14 routes, handling his smallest snap share (52 percent) since Week 2 in Tyler Kroft's Bills debut. Kroft played 45 percent of snaps and didn't draw a target on nine routes.
• Knox had two drops and two catches on five targets, landing between three and five targets for a fifth consecutive game.
• Knox's mark of 0.47 routes per dropback represented a major decline from 0.63 routes/DB over the first five games.

Cardinals 27 Giants 21

Cardinals

• Kyler Murray logged a third straight game with either 10 or 11 rush attempts, though he needed three kneel-downs to get there. His 21 pass attempts were by far a career low, marking his first game with fewer than 32. The rookie also recorded a sixth straight game completing at least 62.5 percent of passes, albeit with his second-worst mark for YPA (5.0) and third-worst for QBR (55.6).
• Murray's league-low 5.2 aDOT continued the recent trend of the Cardinals relying on short passes and rushes, rather than the downfield passing we saw the first couple weeks of the season. His aDOT was shorter than 7.0 in four of the past five games.
• With David Johnson (ankle) limited to three snaps and D.J. Foster (hamstring) inactive, Chase Edmonds piled up 27 carries, four targets, 150 scrimmage yards and three TDs on 94 percent of snaps. Edmonds previously had maxed out at 40 percent snap share (Week 2) and 11 touches (Week 5).
• Trent Sherfield led the WRs with 82 percent of snaps, ahead of Damiere Byrd (80 percent), Larry Fitzgerald (74 percent), Pharoh Cooper (35 percent), Andy Isabella (15 percent) and KeeSean Johnson (8 percent).
• Johnson had played 96 and 81 percent of snaps the previous two weeks, but his role disappeared with Byrd back healthy.
• Maxx Williams played 49 percent of snaps, and Charles Clay got 46 percent.
• The Cardinals ran 17 plays from 10 personnel (one RB, four WRs), up from 22 combined Weeks 5-6, but still way lower than 40.3 per game from Weeks 1-4.
• Edmonds lost five yards on five carries from 12 personnel, while he averaged 6.3 yards on 20 carries from either 10 personnel or 11 personnel, i.e., all his success running the ball came from formations with three or four WRs. This has generally been a theme for Arizona, with the team producing 5.5 YPC on 120 rush attempts from 10 or 11 personnel, compared to 3.4 YPC on 49 rushes from 12 personnel.

Giants

• Daniel Jones was sacked eight times, leaving him with the fourth-highest sack rate (9.3) this season among qualified QBs. He's 25th in completion percentage (61.1), 29th in YPA (6.5), 27th in INT rate (4.0) and 27th in PFF grade, but surprisingly is 18th in QBR (53.5). The higher-than-expected QBR might be related to drops that have undermined his other statistics, with the Giants adding five to the total this past Sunday, per PFF.

• Saquon Barkley played 86 percent of snaps, answering any questions about his ankle.
• Golden Tate played 99 percent of snaps, followed by Darius Slayton (97 percent) and Evan Engram (83 percent) among Giants pass catchers.
• No. 2 tight end Rhett Ellison played 39 percent of snaps and caught a touchdown among his two targets, while Engram had more drops (two) than receptions (one).
• Bennie Fowler (39 percent of snaps) and Cody Latimer (32 percent) split the No. 3 receiver job, drawing five targets apiece on a quiet day for Engram (five targets) and Slayton (two).
• Wayne Gallman didn't get a carry or a target on 10 snaps.
• Tate played all but two snaps the past two weeks, catching 12 of 20 targets for 182 yards and a TD.
• Slayton played all but three snaps the past two weeks, catching five of 10 targets for 60 yards.

Jaguars 27 Bengals 17

Jaguars

• Gardner Minshew completed fewer than half his passes for a second straight week, while 8.0 YPA was his third-best mark of the year. His two lowest QBRs of the season came the past two weeks.
• Leonard Fournette played 90 percent of snaps on offense. He now has one touchdown from 918 scrimmage yards, and he leads the NFL in both carries (144) and touches (172). He was stuffed on 4th-and-goal from the one-yard line on the opening drive Sunday.
• D.J. Chark led the WRs with 77 percent of snaps, ahead of Chris Conley (70 percent) and Dede Westbrook (66 percent). The snaps that normally go to Marqise Lee (ankle) — mostly run-blocking work — were divided between Keelan Cole (24 percent) and C.J. Board (13 percent).
• Tight end Josh Oliver returned from a hamstring injury to play 30 percent of snaps in his NFL debut, lagging behind fellow TEs Seth DeValve (60 percent) and Ben Koyack (52 percent).
• Chark led the team with 39 routes on Minshew's 41 dropbacks, followed by Westbrook (38), Conley (36), Fournette (29) and DeValve (20), per PFF.
• Chark's four targets were his fewest since Week 1, and his 48 this season leave him behind Westbrook (54) for the team lead.
• Westbrook has seen at least five targets in every game, including eight or more each of the past three weeks.
• Chark is up to 0.88 routes per dropback for the year, slightly behind Westbrook (0.92) but ahead of Conley (0.84), per PFF. Fournette's mark of 0.78 routes/DB is as high as you'll ever see from a RB not named McCaffrey. In fact, even McCaffrey is only at 0.76 this year, per PFF.

Bengals

• Andy Dalton completed 51.2 percent of his passes for 6.4 YPA, with one TD and three INTs. This was his second full-on meltdown of the season, along with a 27-3 loss to the Steelers in Week 4. He leads the league with 40.9 pass attempts per game, ranking 26th in completion percentage (60.1), 28th in YPA (6.7), 22nd in INT rate (2.8), 24th in sack rate (7.7) and 28th in QBR (34.5).
• Joe Mixon saw 10 carries and two targets on 54 percent of snaps, after eight carries and three targets on 49 percent the previous week in Baltimore. He still loses work to Giovani Bernard — 47 percent snap share, four carries, three targets — in obvious passing situations.
• The Bengals stuck with their top three WRs for nearly every snap: 99 percent for Tyler Boyd, 94 percent for Alex Erickson, 90 percent for Auden Tate.
• Tight end was the opposite, with Tyler Eifert at 47 percent, C.J. Uzomah at 43 percent and Drew Sample at 17 percent.
• Erickson's 8-137-0 receiving line on 14 targets seemingly came out of nowhere, but he did have 4-47-0 on six targets (plus a 17-yard carry) the previous week. Erickson also was charged with two drops, which at least was one fewer than Boyd, per PFF.
• Boyd's 14 targets included three drops, two interceptions and a lost fumble... yikes. He finished the game with 74 targets on the year, third most in the league. His 471 receiving yards rank 17th, with 67.3 per game all the way down at 28th. Boyd's 66.9 PFF grade places 52nd among 116 qualified WRs, but he's getting a nice boost from his strong run-blocking marks. In terms of receiving only, he's tied for 47th among 62 WRs with 30-plus targets.
• The Bengals have PFF's second-worst team grade for run blocking and seventh-worst grade for pass blocking. The team is still searching for its first 20-yard rush of the season.
• The Bengals defense is 32nd in YPC (5.2) and 29th in net yards per pass attempt (7.7).
• Pass distribution in three games without John Ross (shoulder):

         > Boyd: 35 targets (29 percent), 207 air yards (27 percent), 5.9 aDOT

         > Tate: 23 targets (19 percent), 252 air yards (33 percent), 11.0 aDOT

         > Erickson: 21 targets (18 percent), 170 air yards (22 percent), 8.1 aDOT

         > Bernard: 9 targets (8 percent), -0.9 aDOT

         > Eifert: 8 targets, 4.0 aDOT

         > Mixon: 6 targets, -1.3 aDOT

         > Uzomah: 5 targets, 4.4 aDOT

Rams 37 Falcons 10

Rams

• Jared Goff's 48.8 QBR was his third best in seven games, and a 73.2 PFF grade was his second best. However, he completed less than 60 percent of his passes for a third straight game, dropping him to 61.8 percent (No. 22 of 31 qualified passers) for the year. He's 23rd in YPA (7.0), 25th in QBR (37.7), No. 5 in sack rate (4.1) and No. 21 in INT rate (2.5).
• Goff was pressured just eight times Sunday, compared to 19 per game the first six weeks of the season, per PFF.
• Todd Gurley got 18 carries and one target (a TD catch) on 61 percent of snaps, with Darrell Henderson seeing 11 carries and a target on 34 percent (Malcolm Brown was out with an ankle injury).
• John Kelly got the garbage-time work (three carries), so Henderson's involvement wasn't necessarily inflated by the circumstances of the game. The rookie had four carries in the first half, followed by four more carries and a catch in the third quarter. Gurley actually had a 5-to-3 advantage in fourth-quarter carries.
• Apart from the Week 5 game Brandin Cooks left early with a head injury, Sunday marked the lowest snap share of the season for each of the Rams' three WRs — 78 percent for Cooks, 76 percent for Robert Woods and 62 percent for Cooper Kupp.
• The blowout nature of the game was a factor in the reduced WR snaps, and the Rams ran 15 plays from 13 personnel (one RB, three TEs) and another 13 plays from 12 personnel. To be fair, 19 of those 28 of those snaps from heavier formations came in the second half. They used 11 personnel on 30 of 40 plays in the first half.
• Gerald Everett played 74 percent of snaps, with Tyler Higbee getting 64 percent and No. 3 TE Johnny Mundt seeing 21 percent. No. 4 receiver Josh Reynolds saw 25 percent.
• Everett's 10 targets were his second most in any game during his career, one behind his 11 from Week 5 this season. He's averaging 4.5 catches for 59.8 yards and 0.5 TDs on 8.5 targets the past four weeks, and his 11 avoided tackles this season are four more than any other tight end (George Kittle has seven), per PFF.
• Route breakdown on Goff's 38 dropbacks (per PFF): 34 for Cooks, 31 for Woods, 29 for Kupp, 22 for Gurley, 22 for Everett, 11 for Henderson, 10 for Higbee, five for Reynolds.

Falcons

• Matt Ryan had his worst marks of the year for completion percentage (59.3), YPA (5.9) and QBR (11.5), tying a season high with five sacks despite leaving the game early with an ankle injury.
• Devonta Freeman played 56 percent of snaps despite being ejected in the third quarter. Ito Smith was knocked out of the game with a head/neck injury after just three plays, so Brian Hill (31 percent) and Kenjon Barner (7 percent) both got some run on offense.
• Russell Gage (20 percent) and Justin Hardy (18 percent) are the top candidates to replace Mohamed Sanu — who was traded to New England on Tuesday — as the Falcons' No. 3 WR.
• Sanu played 296 snaps from the slot and 77 out wide for Atlanta this season, per PFF. Gage has played just eight of 85 snaps from the slot, while Hardy has played 19 of 79.
• Sanu and Austin Hooper tied for the team lead with 35 routes Sunday, followed by Calvin Ridley (31), Julio Jones (30) and Freeman (16), per PFF.
• Hooper is on pace for a 105-1,202-9 receiving line on 126 targets. He's earned 68 percent of his yardage, 67 percent of his catches and 64 percent of his targets in the second halves of games, with each of his four TDs occurring after halftime.

49ers 9 Redskins 0

It's tempting to pretend this game didn't happen, so I'll keep it short and sweet. (Pouring rain throughout the afternoon further encouraged the run-first inclinations of both head coaches.)

49ers

• Tevin Coleman bumped up to 66 percent of snaps, leading the team in carries (20) for a third time in three games since he returned from an ankle injury. He also led the Niners with two targets, but Jeff Wilson got the short-yardage carries.
• Raheem Mostert strictly played special teams, while Wilson played 12 percent of snaps on offense and got a carry on five of his eight plays.
• Matt Breida was limited to eight carries and one target on 27 percent of snaps, missing most of the second half after he was poked in the eye and evaluated for a concussion. Breida and Coleman were tied with eight carries apiece before that happened.
• With Deebo Samuel (groin) inactive and Marquise Goodwin (head) mostly kept out of the game after an early concussion scare, the Niners allotted season-high snap shares for Dante Pettis (92 percent), Kendrick Bourne (89 percent) and Richie James (50 percent).
• George Kittle played 95 percent of snaps and led the team with five targets. (Jimmy Garoppolo attempted only 21 passes.)
• The 49ers defense is No. 2 in QB pressure rate (32.8) and No. 31 in blitz rate (16.1), i.e., the four-man rush has been dominant.

Redskins

• Adrian Peterson played 65 percent of snaps, while Wendell Smallwood (35 percent) replaced Chris Thompson (foot) on passing downs.
• Terry McLaurin saw just two targets on 98 percent of snaps, with Paul Richardson (75 percent, one target) also handling his usual, fruitless role.
• Trey Quinn's snap share has dropped to 53 and 60 percent in two games under interim coach Bill Callahan, compared to 74 percent or higher each week with Jon Gruden. The slot receiver ran 0.87 routes per QB dropback the first five weeks, but he's down to 0.71 the past two games, not to mention the impact of an offense that's become more reliant on the run. Granted, Quinn's receiving lines the past two weeks looked much the same as his work with Gruden.
• Jeremy Sprinkle played 79 percent of snaps, catching two passes for 13 yards. He's caught either one or two passes in every game this season, never reaching even 25 yards. His 34 routes the past two weeks are tied with Richardson for second most on the team, per PFF. (Quinn has run 30, while McLaurin has run 42 on 42 dropbacks).

Chargers 20 Titans 23

Chargers

• Austin Ekeler had five carries and eight targets on 59 percent of snaps, while Melvin Gordon had 16 carries and three targets on 53 percent.
• Ekeler is tied for the NFL lead at 0.55 PPR points per snap, with 2.77 yards per route and 488 receiving yards easily first in the league among RBs, per PFF. He's managed just 3.6 YPC, with the Chargers placing 25th in PFF's run blocking grades.
• Gordon has averaged 2.3 yards on 36 carries and 2.6 yards on 13 targets, with his 21.0 elusive rating (per PFF) placing 46th among the league's 49 RBs with 30 or more carries. Ekeler is 12th (72.2) in the same metric, averaging 3.04 yards after contact per carry (compared to 1.89 for Gordon).
• Mike Williams played 95 percent of snaps, his fourth straight game at 89 percent or higher with at least seven targets.
• Hunter Henry played 91 percent of snaps, running a route on 35 of Philip Rivers' 39 dropbacks, per PFF.
• Keenan Allen ran a team-high 37 routes, followed by Williams (36), Henry, and Ekeler (24).
• The No. 3 WR job was shared by Geremy Davis (44 percent) and Andre Patton (31 percent). (Travis Benjamin was placed on IR with a quad injury.)
• Henry has run 0.83 routes per dropback in his three appearances, averaging 7.3 targets.
• Updated pass distribution in the three games Williams, Henry, Allen and Ekeler all played:

         > Allen: 27 targets (23 percent), 405 air yards (36 percent), 15.0 aDOT

         > Henry: 22 targets (19 percent), 248 air yards (22 percent), 11.3 aDOT

         > Ekeler: 19 targets (16 percent), 32 air yards (3 percent), 1.7 aDOT

         > Williams: 19 targets (16 percent), 277 air yards (25 percent), 14.6 aDOT

Titans

• Ryan Tannehill faced pressure on just seven of 32 dropbacks, per PFF. Tannehill's average time from snap to throw (2.94 seconds) was ninth longest of the week, mirroring what we've seen from Marcus Mariota (2.84 seconds, eighth longest this season). Tannehill's 7.3 aDOT also was very close to what we've seen from Mariota (7.4).
• Tannehill's 40.2 QBR paints a much less favorable picture than his completion percentage (79.3), YPA (10.8) or PFF grade (79.5). He did have two fumbles, and also got some help from five avoided tackles and 145 yards after the catch, per PFF.
• Derrick Henry played 75 percent of snaps, while Dion Lewis got 27 percent.
• Corey Davis led the WRs at 75 percent snap share, followed by A.J. Brown (61 percent), Adam Humphries (48 percent), Tajae Sharpe (39 percent) and Darius Jennings (11 percent).
• Delanie Walker succumbed to an ankle injury after five plays, allowing Jonnu Smith to handle a season-high 83 percent snap share. No. 3 tight end MyCole Pruitt got 50 percent, which actually is right in his usual range for an offense that loves multi-TE formations.
• Smith was only targeted three times, but he turned those opportunities into three catches for 63 yards, with three avoided tackles and 38 YAC.
• Davis led the team with 26 routes on 32 dropbacks, followed by Humphries (21), Brown (20), Smith (18), Henry (17) and Lewis (12), per PFF.
• Brown leads the team with 2.22 yards per route this season, far ahead of Smith (1.87), Davis (1.53), Walker (1.52), Henry (1.32), Humphries (1.32), Sharpe (1.25) and Lewis (0.60), per PFF.

Ravens 30 Seahawks 16

Ravens

• Lamar Jackson completed nine of 20 passes and threw for just 79 yards after the opening drive. He was hurt by four drops, along with a couple other throws that weren't especially accurate but could've been caught nonetheless.
• Jackson's 90.2 PFF grade was his highest since Week 1 in Miami, while a 73.2 QBR was only his fourth best of the year. He's had just one game with a QBR below 54.9, in the Week 5 overtime win over Pittsburgh.
• Jackson now has 58 carries for 313 yards (5.4 average) on designed run plays, adding 25 scrambles for 263 yards (10.5 average), per PFF. He had a much higher ratio of designed runs (135) to scrambles (22) last year, averaging 4.2 yards on the former and 8.0 on the latter.
• Jackson is on pace for a 190-1,317-7 rushing line, and also 3,771 passing yards, 25 touchdowns and 11 interceptions.
• Mark Ingram had 12 carries and one target on 51 percent of snaps, with Gus Edwards getting eight carries on 37 percent. Justice Hill didn't see a carry or target on four snaps, and he's now been limited to seven touches on 24 snaps the past three weeks.
• Nick Boyle led the WRs and TEs with 68 percent of snaps, followed by Willie Snead (63 percent), Mark Andrews (58 percent), Chris Moore (56 percent), Miles Boykin (54 percent), Hayden Hurst (46 percent) and Seth Roberts (32 percent).
• Andrews accounted for eight of the 20 targets, finishing with a 2-39-0 receiving line thanks to three brutal drops, including one in the end zone. He had just one drop this season prior to Week 7, but he did have four drops on 55 targets (37 catches) last year, per PFF. It's worth noting that Sunday's game was impacted by rain.
• In two weeks with Marquise Brown (ankle) inactive, Andrews has seen 16 targets, while no other player has drawn more than six (Snead and Roberts).

Seahawks

• Russell Wilson's 48.8 completion percentage and 5.9 YPA both were season lows by a mile, following six consecutive games completing at least 64 percent of passes for 8.1 YPA. A trio of drops didn't help, with DK Metcalf, David Moore and Jaron Brown accounting for one apiece, per PFF.
• Chris Carson handled a career-high 89 percent snap share, recording a fourth consecutive game with 20-plus carries and multiple targets, i.e., legit RB1 usage. He's on pace for 1,641 scrimmage yards and 9.1 touchdowns, despite dipping to 4.1 YPC (4.7 last year).
• Carson's numbers from the past four weeks prorate to 376 carries for 1,644 yards and four TDs, plus 48 catches for 360 yards and four TDs.
• Tyler Lockett played 99 percent of snaps, moving up to 94 percent for the year. He has at least 9.1 PPR points each week this season, but 26 of his 48 targets occurred in a two-week stretch (Weeks 2-3). Lockett's seven targets Sunday were his most since Sept. 22.
• DK Metcalf played 75 percent of snaps, followed by Jaron Brown (60 percent), David Moore (42 percent) and Malik Turner (17 percent).
• With Will Dissly on injured reserve, the Seahawks averaged 2.92 WRs on the field per snap, running five plays from 10 personnel and 46 plays from 11 personnel. They used 12 personnel on just eight plays, down from 14 and 26 the previous two weeks.
• Jacob Hollister played 51 percent of snaps and caught three of six targets for 20 yards, while Luke Willson played 47 percent and finished without a catch on one target.
• Metcalf ran a route on 36 of Wilson's 44 dropbacks, with 0.82 routes/DB representing his most since Week 3 (0.87), per PFF. The rookie had a team-high nine targets Sunday, but his afternoon mostly will be remembered for a lost fumble returned for a touchdown.
• Lockett has run a route on all but three of Wilson's 268 dropbacks this year, per PFF.

Saints 36 Bears 25

Saints

• Teddy Bridgewater's 71.6 QBR and 7.4 YPA were his second-best marks of the season, while a 60.5 completion percentage was his lowest in five starts. His 7.4 aDOT on Sunday was still below league average, but it brought him up to 6.2 for the season.
• Among 32 qualified passers, Bridgewater is eighth in completion percentage (67.7), 21st in YPA (7.0), 12th in sack rate (5.3), sixth in INT rate (1.0) and 21st in QBR (45.3). His completion percentage is 0.4 percentage points above expectation based on the difficulty of his passes (per NFL Next Gen Stats), and his 73.1 PFF grade is 15th among 35 qualified QBs.
• Latavius Murray played 83 percent of snaps, taking 27 carries while finishing second on the team in both targets (six) and catches (five).
• Zach Zenner got one carry and two targets on 10 percent of snaps, with Dwayne Washington catching a pass on his one and only snaps.
• Ted Ginn had a fifth consecutive game with either two or three catches. He hasn't reached 50 yards since his 7-101-0 blowup in the season opener, despite playing at least 60 percent of snaps (but no more than 74 percent) each week.
• Ginn has run a route on 81 percent of the Saints' dropbacks this season, but his mark of 1.15 yards per route ranks 70th among 83 WRs with 20 or more targets, per PFF. His 30 targets are the fewest for any WR with 200 or more routes.
• Michael Thomas played 94 percent of snaps, drawing double-digit targets for a third straight week and catching eight or more passes for a fourth consecutive week. He's scored at least 16.4 PPR points in every game, with 8.9 receptions per game putting him on pace for 142 (one shy of Marvin Harrison's 143 in 2002).
• With Jared Cook (ankle) inactive, Josh Hill played 68 percent of snaps, Dan Arnold played 24 percent and fullback Zach Line bumped up to 36 percent. Hill's snap share wasn't actually much different from his overall 2019 mark of 59.4 percent, but he did score his first TD since Week 5 of 2018.
• Thomas led the team with 39 routes (on 41 dropbacks), followed by Ginn (37), Murray (27), Hill (19) and No. 3 receiver Austin Carr (19), per PFF.

Bears

• Mitchell Trubisky's 29.5 QBR was his worst since the Week 1 travesty against Green Bay (24.8). For the season, he's 29th in QBR (31.8), 18th in completion percentage (64.4), 31st in YPA (5.2) and dead last in PFF grade (45.7).
• David Montgomery had two carries and two targets on 46 percent of snaps, finishing with a season-low four touches and his smallest snap share since Week 2 (a.k.a. the Mike Davis era).
• Tarik Cohen played 55 percent of snaps, with three carries and 12 targets yielding 29 yards.
• Allen Robinson played 97 percent of snaps and drew 16 targets, while Anthony Miller (75 percent, 5-64-0 on nine targets) may have moved past Taylor Gabriel (58 percent, 1-6-0 on two targets) for the No. 2 receiver job. Miller did lose a fumble.
• Trey Burton saw four targets on 66 percent of snaps. He's seen either three or four targets in every appearance this year, with his snap share hovering between 59 and 75 percent the past four games.
• The Bears also found some work for Javon Wims (34 percent) and Cordarrelle Patterson (23 percent), averaging 2.87 WRs on the field per snap.
• The Bears haven't run more than eight plays from 12 personnel in any game this season, perhaps because Burton and No. 2 tight end Adam Shaheen both have been borderline useless. They used 11 personnel on 71 percent of plays Sunday, after 76 percent in the previous game.
• Pass distribution in three games with Trubisky, Burton and Miller all playing:

         > Robinson: 30 targets (27 percent), 286 air yards (42 percent), 9.5 aDOT

         > Cohen: 21 targets (19 percent), 45 air yards (7 percent), 2.1 aDOT

         > Miller: 13 targets (12 percent), 122 air yards (18 percent), 9.4 aDOT

         > Gabriel: 11 targets (10 percent), 111 air yards (15 percent), 10.1 aDOT

         > Montgomery: 8 targets (7 percent), 28 air yards (4 percent), 3.5 aDOT

Eagles 10 Cowboys 37

Eagles

• Miles Sanders played 54 percent of snaps to Jordan Howard's 38 percent, with the rookie having the advantage for the first time since Week 3. Howard had 11 carries and two targets, while Sanders had six and three.
• Boston Scott played 13 percent of snaps, with his eight touches coming on eight consecutive snaps at the end of the game, i.e., he only got work in garbage time.
• Alshon Jeffery and Nelson Agholor both played 93 percent of snaps, with No. 3 receiver Mack Hollins getting 49 percent. Hollins has caught one of six targets the past four games, with Agholor catching seven of 15 in that same stretch.
• Dallas Goedert is picking up some of the slack for the WRs, though he lost a fumble Sunday night and saw his snap share drop to 59 percent (compared to 69, 74 and 70 percent the previous three weeks). The Eagles cut back their usage of 12 personnel after being forced into comeback mode. Even so, Goedert had a season-high 69 receiving yards, with four targets giving him a fourth straight week with three or more.
• Jeffery and Zach Ertz posted identical lines: 2-38-0 on five targets.

Cowboys

• Ezekiel Elliott saw 22 carries and a team-high seven targets on 79 percent of snaps. He's now on pace for a 309-1,376-14 rushing line and a 55-402-0 receiving line.
• Tony Pollard played 29 percent of snaps, with three of his eight carries coming on the Cowboys' final three plays. He only had one carry in the first quarter, but he took four in the second quarter.
• Amari Cooper played 80 percent of snaps, slightly behind Michael Gallup (84) but well ahead of Randall Cobb (47 percent) and Tavon Austin (20 percent).
• Jason Witten played 76 percent of snaps, followed by Blake Jarwin (49 percent) and Dalton Schultz (23 percent).
• Gallup drew four targets, his first game with fewer than seven all year. His season average is now down to 15.0 PPR points.
• Cooper's five targets matched a season low (excluding the game he played three snaps) from Week 2, but in both cases he made up for it with either a TD or a long gain. He's produced at least 9.8 PPR points in every healthy game, averaging 21.5.
• Pass distribution in four healthy games for Cooper, Gallup and Cobb:

         > Cooper: 33 targets (25 percent), 402 air yards (32 percent), 12.2 aDOT

         > Gallup: 33 targets (25 percent), 354 air yards (28 percent), 10.7 aDOT

         > Cobb: 20 targets (15 percent), 163 air yards (13 percent), 8.2 aDOT

         > Witten: 16 targets (12 percent), 104 air yards (8 percent), 6.5 aDOT

         > Elliott: 14 targets (11 percent), 23 air yards (2 percent), 1.6 aDOT

Patriots 33 Jets 0

Patriots

• Tom Brady threw a season-high 45 passes, with 5.5 YPA representing his second-worst mark of the year. The Patriots did have three drops, one apiece from Ben Watson, Julian Edelman and Sony Michel, per PFF.
• Michel got 19 carries and two targets on 38 percent of snaps, finishing with only 34 scrimmage yards but three TDs.
• James White played 54 percent of snaps, finishing second on the team in targets (eight) and first in receiving yards (59). He also had five carries for zero yards, dropping his season mark to 3.0 YPC (and 6.0 YPT).
• Damien Harris played six percent of snaps, with his four carries coming on four consecutive plays at the very end of the game. Brandon Bolden played 22 percent of snaps, getting three touches in the first quarter and two more in the second half.
• Edelman played 89 percent of snaps, followed by Phillip Dorsett (88 percent), Jakobi Meyers (51 percent) and Gunner Olszewski (18 percent).
• Watson played 76 percent of snaps, while Eric Tomlinson got 46 percent.
• Dorsett led the team with 45 routes, followed by Edelman (44), Meyers (29), White (29), Watson (27) and Bolden (14), per PFF.
• The Patriots defense has forced a turnover on a league-high 22.8 percent of drives and allowed a score on a league-low 5.4 percent of drives. No defense since 2012 (CHI, NE) has forced a turnover on 20 percent of drives in a season.

Jets

• Sam Darnold's 1.9 QBR was the third worst by any QB this season, ahead of only Josh Rosen's 1.8 from Week 6 (vs. WAS) and Luke Falk's 1.7 from Week 5 (at PHI).
• Le'Veon Bell played 93 percent of snaps, followed by Robby Anderson (92 percent), Ryan Griffin (84 percent), Jamison Crowder (77 percent) and Demaryius Thomas (72 percent).
• The Jets defense is allowing 3.3 YPC, second best in the league behind Tampa Bay (2.9 YPC).
• Updated pass distribution in Darnold's three games:

         > Crowder: 31 targets (30 percent), 188 air yards (21 percent), 6.1 aDOT

         > Anderson: 23 targets (22 percent), 393 air yards (44 percent), 17.1 aDOT

         > Bell: 14 targets (13 percent), 15 air yards (2 percent), 1.1 aDOT

         > Thomas (two games): 13 targets (20 percent), 173 air yards (26 percent), 13.3 aDOT

         > Griffin: 9 targets (9 percent), 41 air yards (5 percent), 4.6 aDOT

Editor's Note: Many stats that include a player's rank in a category don't account for the Monday game.