What To Look For – NFL Week 4

What To Look For – Week 4

​ON ANOTHER LEVEL: LAMAR JACKSON and the BALTIMORE RAVENS (2-1), who possess the league’s top offense through the first three weeks (33.0 points per game), host JOSH ALLEN and the BUFFALO BILLS (2-1), who rank third at 30.3 points per game, on Sunday (1:00 PM ET, CBS).

Jackson leads the NFL with 12 combined passing and rushing touchdowns while Allen ranks second with 10. Each player has recorded at least four combined passing and rushing touchdowns in two games this season and can join RUSSELL WILSON (2020) as the only players in NFL history to accomplish the feat in three of their first four games of a season.

Jackson, who ranks fifth in the league in rushing yards (243), became the first player in NFL history with at least three touchdown passes and 100 rushing yards in consecutive games and can become the first quarterback to record at least 100 rushing yards in three consecutive games.

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DEATH, TAXES, MAHOMES, KELCE: When the KANSAS CITY CHIEFS (2-1) face TAMPA BAY (2-1) on Sunday Night Football (8:20 PM ET, NBC), PATRICK MAHOMES and TRAVIS KELCE can continue to climb through the record books.

Mahomes has 159 touchdown passes since entering the NFL in 2017 and with three touchdown passes, can surpass RUSSELL WILSON (161 touchdown passes) for the third-most touchdown passes by a player in his first six seasons in NFL history.

The players with the most touchdown passes in their first six seasons in NFL history:

Kelce, who leads Kansas City with 230 receiving yards and has at least 50 receiving yards in each game this season, needs 51 receiving yards to surpass ROB GRONKOWSKI (9,286 receiving yards) for the fourth-most receiving yards by a tight end all-time.

The tight ends with the most receiving yards in NFL history:

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HOME AND ROAD: Since the beginning of the 2021 season, Cincinnati quarterback JOE BURROW leads all players with 3,319 passing yards at home.

Burrow enters Week 4 with at least 300 passing yards and two touchdown passes in each of his past four consecutive home games and against Miami (3-0) on Thursday Night Football (8:15 PM ET, Prime Video), can join Pro Football Hall of Famers PEYTON MANNING and KURT WARNER as well as DREW BREES (three times) as the only players to accomplish the feat in five consecutive home games.

The players with the most consecutive home games with at least 300 passing yards and two touchdown passes in NFL history:

Burrow, who has 8,111 passing yards in 29 career games, needs at least 85 passing yards to surpass MATTHEW STAFFORD (8,195 passing yards) for the fourth-most passing yards by a player in his first 30 career games in NFL history. With 340 passing yards, he will surpass Pro Football Hall of Famer KURT WARNER (8,450) for third-most.

The players with the most passing yards in their first 30 career games in NFL history:

Los Angeles Chargers quarterback JUSTIN HERBERT has recorded at least 300 passing yards in each of his past six road starts and when the Chargers (1-2) visit Houston (0-1-1) on Sunday (1:00 PM ET, CBS), he can join RICH GANNON (eight consecutive road games from 2001-02) as the only players ever to record at least 300 passing yards in seven-or-more consecutive road games.

The players with the most consecutive road games with at least 300 passing yards in NFL history:

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GREEN STREAKS: The PHILADELPHIA EAGLES (3-0) are the last undefeated team remaining in the NFC and are one of two teams, along with Buffalo, to record at least 400 total yards of offense in each of their first three games.

On Sunday against Jacksonville (1:00 PM ET), the Eagles can become the seventh team since 1970 to begin a season 4-0 and record at least 400 total yards of offense in each game. Four of the six previous teams to accomplish the feat advanced to the Super Bowl that season.

The teams to win the most consecutive games and record at least 400 yards of offense in each win to begin a season since 1970:

GREEN BAY (2-1), who hosts New England (1-2) on Sunday (4:25 PM ET, CBS), has won 23 of their 25 home games since 2019 under head coach MATT LAFLEUR, including 14 consecutive home wins since Week 10 of the 2020 season. With a win in Week 4, the Packers can become the fourth franchise and sixth team overall to win at least 15 consecutive home games since 2000.

The teams with the most consecutive home wins since 2000:

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FINE WINE: With two touchdown passes from each player, Green Bay quarterback AARON RODGERS and Denver quarterback RUSSELL WILSON can both reach historical milestones.

Rodgers, who has 453 career regular-season touchdown passes and 45 career postseason touchdown passes, can become the fifth player all-time with at least 500 career touchdown passes, including the postseason.

The players with the most touchdown passes, including the postseason, in NFL history:

Wilson, who faces Las Vegas on Sunday (4:25 PM ET, CBS) in his first start against a divisional opponent as a member of the Broncos, has 294 career touchdown passes and can surpass MATT RYAN (295 touchdown passes) for the third-most ever by a player in his first 11 career seasons.

The players with the most touchdown passes in their first 11 seasons in NFL history:

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ONE CHANCE: In Week 3, Minnesota wide receiver ADAM THIELEN became the fourth undrafted player since 1967 with at least 50 career touchdown receptions. When Minnesota travels to London and plays New Orleans (9:30 AM ET, NFL Network), he can surpass WES WELKER (50 touchdown receptions) for the fourth-most by an undrafted player since 1967.

The undrafted players with the most touchdown receptions since 1967:

Jacksonville running back JAMES ROBINSON is the only player in the league to record at least one rushing touchdown in each of the first three weeks this season. With a rushing touchdown at Philadelphia on Sunday (1:00 PM ET, CBS), Robinson can become second undrafted player in the common-draft era to record a rushing touchdown in each of his team’s first four games of a season, joining MIKE AUGUSTYNIAK (New York Jets, 1982).