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Alshon Jeffery
27 Sep
, 2016
But Alshon Jeffery, at least, has been a star in this matchup. He's faced them six times in his career, and scored in four of those games (5 TDs total)...
Houston Texans
26 Sep
, 2016
Certainly chance plays a big role. Injuries tend to occur when a player is hit just in just the wrong way...
New England Patriots
25 Sep
, 2016
The Patriots have been looking at T.J...
Third-round quarterbacks
21 Sep
, 2016
Two third-round quarterbacks make their first career starts this week. In the last 25 years, only two quarterbacks selected in that round have won their first start...
Christine Michael
21 Sep
, 2016
Seattle has faced San Francisco seven times in the last three seasons (including a playoff meeting), and had a significant running back in all of those contests...
Buffalo Bills
17 Sep
, 2016
In this century, 23 other players have managed it. Most recently, Ted Ginn Jr. last year against Atlanta...
Bills defense
16 Sep
, 2016
Buffalo has had some bad luck with injuries, to be sure...
Ezekiel Elliott
15 Sep
, 2016
Elliott scored on an 8-yard run, and he also had a nice enough 8-yard run on his previous carry...
Russell Wilson
14 Sep
, 2016
Wilson is only 4-4 as a starter against this team, and Seattle’s offense has scored more than 2 TDs in only one of those games (when Wilson threw 2 TDs and ran for a third in 2014).
As poorly as t...
Delanie Walker
14 Sep
, 2016
Detroit has allowed 15 TDs to tight ends in its last 17 games - a league-worst 12 last year, and 3 in Week 1 to Indianapolis...
Ryan Tannehill
13 Sep
, 2016
In his career, Ryan Tannehill has taken the Dolphins up to New England four times. Those games have gone badly for him -- very badly...
Detroit Lions
12 Sep
, 2016
When the Lions had Vince Lombardi’s grandson as their offensive coordinator, in the first half of last year, they ranked last in rushing...
Road woes
8 Sep
, 2016
Over the past few years, in fact, these guys have tended to be the most affected by home-field advantage (or away-field disadvantage, if you will).
For this one, I looked at the stats of the 23 qu...
Rookie quarterback debuts
7 Sep
, 2016
Over the last three seasons, a dozen other rookie quarterbacks have made starts, and most put up lesser numbers in their first game. On average, they threw for 212 yards and 1.6 TDs...
Ezekiel Elliott
6 Sep
, 2016
Playing behind that offensive line, Ezekiel Elliott could be one of those kind of players, running for about 120 yards and 2 TDs in his first day out...