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Around The NFL breaks down what you need to know from all of Sunday’s action in Week 13 of the 2022 NFL season. Catch up on each game’s biggest takeaways using the links below:
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Grant Gordon’s takeaways:
NFL Research: The Cowboys are the third team in NFL history to score 33 or more points in the fourth quarter of a game, joining the 2007 Lions (Week 4 versus the Bears) and the 1925 Cardinals (Week 13 vs. Milwaukee Badgers).
Next Gen stat of the game: The Cowboys had a 30% QB pressure rate with 10 players recording at least one QB pressure.
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Kevin Patra’s takeaways:
Next Gen stat of the game: The Chiefs defense generated a season-low 15.6 QB pressure percentage (25.7 from Weeks 1-12).
NFL Research: Joe Burrow is the first NFL QB to defeat Patrick Mahomes in three straight head-to-head matchups. Burrow joined Tom Brady (3-3) as the only QBs to defeat Mahomes three times. Burrow is the only QB to face Mahomes multiple times and be undefeated in head-to-head matchups (including playoffs).
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Eric Edholm’s takeaways:
Next Gen stat of the game: On the 31-yard TD from Derek Carr to Davante Adams, the pass traveled 47.1 yards of air distance, featured a target separation of 0.8 yards and had a completion probability of only 23.8%. Adams has caught a league-high eight TDs this season on vertical routes.
NFL Research: With 85 TDs and counting, Davante Adams now has the fifth-most receiving touchdowns in a player’s first nine seasons in NFL history. Only Hall of Famers Jerry Rice, Randy Moss, Marvin Harrison and Terrell Owens had more in such a span.
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Nick Shook’s takeaways:
Next Gen stat of the game: Four 49ers defenders (Nick Bosa, Samson Ebukam, Arik Armstead, Charles Omenihu) registered two or more quarterback pressures in Sunday’s win over the Dolphins.
NFL Research: The Dolphins had scored 30-plus points in four straight games — which was tied for the most in club history and the longest active streak in the league — before the 49ers held them to 17 on Sunday.
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Bobby Kownack’s takeaways:
Next Gen stat of the game: WR DK Metcalf caught all five targets on passes of 10+ air yards for 104 yards and a touchdown.
NFL Research: QB Geno Smith set new career highs in passing yards in a game (367) and in a season (3,169). His previous highs were 358 yards in Week 17, 2014, and 3,046 yards during his 2013 rookie season with the Jets.
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Eric Edholm’s takeaways:
Next Gen stat of the game: A.J. Brown has gained plus-183 receiving yards over expected on tight-window targets this season, which is 60 more than any other NFL player.
NFL Research: Jalen Hurts now has more games (two) with 300-plus passing yards, three or more passing touchdowns and one or more rushing touchdown than all other Eagles players in the Super Bowl era combined. The only other Eagles player to have such a game was Michael Vick on Monday Night Football against Washington in Week 10 of the 2010 season.
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Kevin Patra takeaways:
Next Gen stat of the game: D.J. Chark earned a plus-33.2 catch percent over expected on five receptions for 98 yards versus his former team.
NFL Research: The Lions scored on each of their first eight drives, the most consecutive scoring drives to start a game by Detroit since at least 1993.
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Kevin Patra’s takeaways:
Next Gen stat of the game: Christian Watson reached a top speed of 21.72 mph on his 46-yard TD run, tying DeSean Jackson for the fastest speed by a WR this season. Watson has reached 20-plus mph on six of 30 offensive touches this season (20%), the highest rate in the NFL (min. 10 touches).
NFL Research: Beating their rivals, the Packers became the winningest franchise in NFL history (787). Aaron Rodgers is 8-0 with 19 passing touchdowns, zero interceptions, a 118.3 passer rating versus CHI since 2019.
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Eric Edholm’s takeaways:
Next Gen stat of the game: Jets WR Garrett Wilson was expected to gain 5 yards after the catch on his 60-yard reception; instead, he gained 48 YAC. Wilson has recorded plus-169 receiving yards over expected this season, leading all rookies and ranking 11th overall in the NFL.
NFL Research: The Vikings are now 9-0 in one-score games in 2022, which is tied for the most such wins in first 12 games of a season since 1940 (with the 2019 Seattle Seahawks). No team since 1940 has gone 9-0 or better in one-score games through a full season, with the best being the 2009 Colts, who went 8-0 in one-score regular-season games.
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Bobby Kownack’s takeaways:
Next Gen stat of the game: QB Tyler Huntley threw 46.9% of his passes outside the numbers compared to Lamar Jackson’s 35.9% this season.
NFL Research: The Broncos (13.8 points per game) are currently on pace to be the first team in the last 10 seasons to average under 14 points a contest.
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Michael Baca’s takeaways:
Next Gen stat of the day: Kenny Pickett completed 11 of 16 passes for 151 yards and a touchdown versus zone coverage (3 for 10, 37 yards versus man coverage).
NFL Research: The Falcons and Steelers tied the record for most 45-plus-yard field goals in one game in NFL history with five.
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Nick Shook’s takeaways:
Next Gen stat of the game: Deshaun Watson was pressured on 47.8% of dropbacks Sunday, 17.6% higher than Jacoby Brissett’s average of 30.1% in Weeks 1-12.
NFL Research: Cleveland scored three non-offensive touchdowns on Sunday, giving them a franchise-best four for the season. The three on Sunday tied the previous season-high total of three set in 2015. Sunday was also only the second time the franchise the team has scored three such touchdowns in a single game in the Super Bowl era. The last time the Browns did so was in Week 1 of the 1989 season.
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Nick Shook’s takeaways:
Next Gen Stat of the game: Jahan Dotson’s 28-yard touchdown reception included plus-12 yards gained after catch over expected, the most on a Washington touchdown this season.
NFL Research: Sunday was the first tie for the Giants in 25 years. Their last tie came in Week 13 of the 1997 season. Sunday was Washington’s first tie since Week 8 of the 2016 season.
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Vintage Tom Brady found his way and led the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on a furious fourth-quarter comeback to defeat Andy Dalton and the New Orleans Saints on “Monday Night Football.”
Quarterback Josh Allen and the Bills won in lopsided fashion over the Patriots on “Thursday Night Football” for their third straight win in the rivalry.
Following a Benny Snell go-ahead score for the Steelers late in the game, the Colts embarked on a hopeful 93-yard game-tying drive, but Pittsburgh’s defense held for a 24-17 victory.
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