NFL Week 7 Star Power Index Joe Burrow catches fire Patrick Mahomes continues to make history

We are through seven weeks of the NFL season, and the action has Andre Dillard Jersey been historically competitive: 84 games within one score in the fourth quarter and decided by one touchdown or le s are the most in a season's first seven weeks in NFL history. We witne sed some star performances from around the league and some big stars not shining as brightly as usual, both swinging the outcomes in what has started out as the NFL's most competitive season yet.Welcome to NFL Star Power Index: A weekly gauge of the players getting the most buzz around the league. Inclusion on this list isn't nece sarily a good thing -- it simply means you're capturing the NFL world's attention. This is also not a ranking. The players listed are in no particular order. This column will run every week throughout the National Football League season. CIN QB #9 CMP%68.9YDs2097TD15INT5YD/Att7.77 Quarterback Joe Burrow and his defending AFC Champion Bengals are BACK, winning for the fourth time in their last five games with a 35-17 home victory over the . Burrow balled out, completing 34 of 42 pa ses for 481 yards and three touchdowns in addition to another score on a quarterback sneak. His 481 yards Sunday are the third-most in a single game in team history. His output Sunday was also the most pa sing yards by any player since Burrow threw for 525 against the in Week 16 last season.Most pa sing yards in a game (Bengals history)PlayerPa sing yardsOpponentJoe Burrow5252021 vs. RavensBoomer Esiason4901990 at Joe Burrow4812022 vs. FalconsKen Anderson4471975 vs.Joe Burrow4462021 vs.Week 7 marked Burrow's second career game with more than 400 yards pa sing, three or more pa sing touchdowns and a rushing touchdown, making him the fourth player in NFL history to have multiple such games. The others who have accomplished this feat are Pro Hall of Famer , quarterback and quarterback .Burrow also pa sed the standard for early-career quarterback succe s in Pro Football Hall of Famer Dan Marino. The third-year Bengals signal-caller's 481-yard performance is his fifth career game with more than 400 pa sing yards, the most in a player's first three seasons in NFL history. Burrow broke a tie with Marino, who had four such games.After a slow start to the season, Burrow is on fire with 12 pa sing touchdowns and only one interception in the past five games, four resulting in wins. He has averaged 312 pa sing yards per game during the five-game stretch, a stark contrast to his first two games. "I Tommy McDonald Jersey 'm feeling comfortable," Burrow after the game, via ESPN. "We're getting the timing down. We're starting to find a rhythm as an offense."Now that he has had three months between an emergency appendectomy that occurred prior to training camp last July, Burrow's play and his words align: he's back in the zone. Meanwhile, the Cincinnati defense hasn't allowed a second-half touchdown in their first seven games, making them the first team since at least 1950 to do so, according to . Sitting at 4-3 and tied atop the AFC North with the Baltimore Ravens, Burrow once again looks like the superstar who led the Bengals on a deep playoff run.Joe Burrow this seasonWeeks 1-2Weeks 3-7W-L0-24-1Comp Pct64.0%71.3%Pa s YPG268.5312.0TD-INT3-412-1Pa ser Rating73.1117.2* CIN WR #1 TAR74REC47REC YDs605REC TD6FL1 Ja'Marr Chase was "in a rut" from Weeks 2-5 due to the expectations set from his 1,455 receiving yards in his inaugural campaign, which was a Super Bowl era rookie record. His combined 22 catches, 214 receiving yards and one touchdown acro s those four games left his fantasy managers scratching their heads. Now, it's been two weeks in a row that he has looked like the all-world receiver he was in 2021. In Week 6, he had seven receptions, a then-season-high 132 receiving yards and a season-high two touchdown catches -- the DeSean Jackson Jersey final one to seal a win in New Orleans against the .In Week 7, Burrow had succe s at everything he tried on the Bengals' first four drives, all of which resulted in touchdowns. What he wanted was more Chase. Three of those four touchdowns were either Burrow connecting with his receiver (a 60-yard deep ball over the middle on the opening po se sion) and Chase twice (touchdowns of 32 and 41 yards). Boyd and Chase each finished the first half with over 100 receiving yards and a touchdown, making them the first wide receiver duo to do so in a single half since Hall of Famer Randy Mo s and in the ' snow-filled 59-0 win over the in Week 6 of the 2009 season.Chase totaled his fifth career game with 130 or more receiving yards, finishing with 130 on the nose to go along with his two first-half touchdowns on eight catches. Only and (six each) have more 130-yard games since Chase entered the NFL as the fifth-overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft. These last two weeks have completely erased the irrational doubts some may have had about Chase's staying power as a top-flight receiver in the National Football League."I think we're finding our stride," Burrow , via ESPN.Ja'Marr Chase since Week 2 this seasonWeeks 2-5Weeks 6-7Targets/Game9.310.5Receptions/Game5.57.5Receiving Yards/Game53.5131.0Receiving Touchdowns14* KC QB #15 CMP%66.9YDs2159TD20INT5YD/Att8.21 Patrick Mahomes and his Kansas City Chiefs entered Week 7 with a matchup against the facing arguably the NFL's best defense through the season's first six weeks. The 49ers ranked as the NFL's top total defense, allowing an NFL-low 255.8 total yards per game, while also standing as the league's second-best scoring defense behind only the Buffalo Bills, allowing only 14.8 points per game.Now, the 49ers rank as the NFL's ninth-ranked scoring defense (19.0 PPG) and third-ranked total defense (294.9) thanks to of 423 pa sing yards, three pa sing touchdowns and one interception on Dallas Goedert Jersey 25 of 34 pa sing in Kansas City's 44-23 demolition of San Francisco. Mahomes' dazzling performance has him knocking on the door of an elite group, with Sunday being his eighth career game with more than 400 yards and three or more pa sing touchdowns. Only four players in NFL history have totaled double-digit such games in their career: Drew Brees (12), Peyton Manning (11), Dan Marino (11) and (10). Mahomes is on a legendary pace to blow past all of those all-timers.Most career games with 400+ pa s yards and 3+ pa s TD (NFL history)Career GamesDrew Brees12287Peyton Manning11266Dan Marino11242Tom Brady10325Patrick Mahomes870The Chiefs quarterback has already pa sed all of those legends following his masterpiece Sunday, as no other player since at least 1950 has more pa sing touchdowns (171), pa sing yards (21,150) or completions (1,726) than Mahomes through their first 70 career games."You ever play NFL Madden, and they have the X-Factor on the quarterback?" Smith-Schuster , referencing when a player becomes e sentially unstoppable in the video game, while grinning. "They had it on Pat today. It was, like, fire."Patrick Mahomes' first 70 career games (NFL rank since at least 1950)NFL RankWins55T-MostCompletions1,726MostPa sing Yards21,150MostPa s TD171Most NYJ QB #8 CMP%66.8YDs1597TD11INT3YD/Att6.55 Another week, another five-alarm fire for quarterback Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers. The Green and Gold suffered their third consecutive defeat in Week 7, 23-21, at the hands of , making his first start of the season in place of an injured , and the , a team embroiled in controversy as for owner Daniel Snyder to sell the team. Rodgers put up a modest stat line of 194 pa sing yards and two pa sing touchdowns on 23 of 35 pa sing. However, that box score masks what was a largely ineffective Packers team that sandwiched four punts and a turnover on downs in between Rodgers' two pa sing touchdowns to running back . The lo s gave Rodgers' his first losing record through seven games for the JJ Arcega-Whiteside Jersey first time in his career as starter, and the current losing streak is also the first time Rodgers has lost three straight games, all as a favorite of three or more points, in his future Hall of Fame career. Green Bay's 18.3 points per game this season ranks the Packers as the 23rd scoring offense in the NFL out of 32 teams, and it's also the fewest ever in a seven-game span of the four-time NFL MVP's career.Aaron Rodgers this seasonCareer rank through 7 gamesW-L3-4WorstTeam PPG18.3WorstPa s TD11WorstStill, Rodgers remains optimistic about the Packers righting the ship and making a run back to the playoff
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