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Players with 5 TDs

How do they tend to fare in their NEXT game?

Jamaal Charles scored 5 TDs last week against Oakland, so it stands to reason that he'll probably follow that up with another 2-3 TDs against a suspect Indianapolis, defense? Not so fast. The track record for players coming off these kind of games is surprisingly iffy. Ian Allan explains.

For this one, I simply called up the list of all players who've scored 5 TDs in a game since 1960. This includes one player (Gale Sayers) who scored 6.

Then I checked the game logs to see how said players did in their NEXT games.

Surprisingly, they didn't do all that well. Maybe they were worn out. Maybe opponents tended to key on them. And maybe some of it was just the ups, downs and chance of the season.

But of those 11 players, over half didn't score at all in their next game. Only one (Clinton Portis) managed to make it up to 2 TDs.

Not suggesting anyone tries to get clever and leave Jamaal Charles out of a fantasy lineup, but here are the numbers ...

PLAYERS WITH 5 TOUCHDOWNS, THE NEXT WEEK
PlayerYearOpponentRunRecTD
Abner Hayes1961at NY Titans451270
Billy Cannon1961at Oakland14581
Cookie Gilchrist1963at NY Jets11411
Gale Sayers1965Minnesota8201
Paul Hornung1965at San Fran.-2100
Kellen Winslow1981Denver0180
Jerry Rice1990Pittsburgh0310
Ricky Watters1994at Dallas37330
James Stewart1997at Dallas40240
Shaun Alexander2002at San Fran.96251
Clinton Portis2003Cleveland13962
Jamaal Charles2013Indianapolis???

--Ian Allan

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