NFL Research spotlights the best nuggets from each slate of games. Here are the most eye-popping statistical accomplishments from Week 13 of the 2025 season.
1) Bills QB Allen continues to break records
Josh Allen has a strong case for being the best dual-threat quarterback in NFL history. To be precise, he has at least 76 reasons to make that case -- those being his 76 career rushing touchdowns, the most by any quarterback in NFL history. Allen surpassed Cam Newton (75) for that record in Buffalo's Week 13 win at Pittsburgh, scoring on a beastly run that looked like many tallied by the 2015 MVP.
Allen has now accounted for 30 offensive touchdowns this season: 19 passing, 11 rushing. It is his sixth consecutive season with at least 30 total TDs, breaking a tie with Peyton Manning, Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers for the second-longest streak in NFL history. Only Drew Brees' nine such seasons are ahead of Allen's current streak.
Since his rookie season in 2018, Allen is second among all players with 76 rushing touchdowns (only Derrick Henry has more). In 2025, he is tied for the second-most rushing touchdowns behind Jonathan Taylor's 15 (Allen and Josh Jacobs each have 11). Of Allen's 11 scores on the ground, a league-high five have come on third or fourth down. Hailing from a draft class that provided the NFL with a pair of multi-time Pro Bowlers in Saquon Barkley and Nick Chubb, Allen has over 20 more ground scores than any of his draftmates.
Now for the other part of the dual-threat milestones. Allen's third-quarter touchdown toss to Keon Coleman was the 214th of his career, breaking a tie with Favre for the fifth-most passing touchdowns by any player in his first eight career seasons. Only Patrick Mahomes, Peyton Manning, Dan Marino and Russell Wilson had more.
2) McCaffrey on historic pace to join elite RB company
Having missed 13 games due to injury in 2024, Christian McCaffrey leads the NFL with 1,655 scrimmage yards in 2025. No player in league history has finished first in scrimmage yards after missing at least 13 games in the previous season.
For McCaffrey, it is the fifth season in his career with at least 1,600 scrimmage yards and 12 touchdowns, making him the fourth player in NFL history to have five such seasons prior to turning 30 years old. He joined former NFL MVPs LaDainian Tomlinson, Shaun Alexander and Barry Sanders.
This is the third season of McCaffrey's career with at least 800 rushing yards and 800 receiving yards, which ties Hall of Famer Marshall Faulk for the most such seasons in an entire career. Only six other players in NFL history have enjoyed a single season with at least 800 yards rushing and receiving.
McCaffrey is on pace to become the fourth player in the Super Bowl era to lead the NFL in scrimmage yards three different times -- joining Hall of Famers Thurman Thomas, Eric Dickerson and O.J. Simpson.
3) McBride becoming a star tight end
The Cardinals were eliminated from playoff contention with a 20-17 loss to the Buccaneers -- Arizona's seventh defeat decided by four or fewer points in 2025.
Despite a lost season, tight end Trey McBride has been playing at an All-Pro level for the Cardinals and continued that pace with eight receptions for 82 yards and a touchdown in Week 13.
McBride (309) surpassed Jimmy Graham (301) for the most receptions by a tight end in his first four seasons all time. It was also the 14th consecutive game with at least five receptions for McBride, moving him one game behind Travis Kelce (15 consecutive games in 2018) for the longest streak of five-plus-catch games by a tight end.
4) Adams having historic season with Rams
Albeit in a letdown loss in Carolina, Davante Adams added to his historic 2025 season in his first year with the Rams.
The three-time first-team All-Pro WR scored twice in the first half in the Week 13 defeat to the Carolina Panthers -- both coming inside of 10 yards (a 4-yard touchdown in the first quarter and a 7-yard touchdown in the second quarter).
Adams has been called the "Goal-line G.O.A.T." for good reason. Including the pair of scores on Sunday, Adams has 60 career receiving touchdowns inside of the 10-yard line, breaking a tie with the original G.O.A.T., Jerry Rice, for the most such touchdowns in NFL history (Rice had 58).
In 2025 alone, Adams has nine touchdowns inside of the 5-yard line, breaking the single-season record -- WR Randy Moss (in 2004) and TE Bubba Franks (in 2001) each had eight such touchdown catches.
Overall, Adams has 14 receiving touchdowns in 2025 -- the third time in his career reaching that threshold in a single season. Only Rice (6), Moss (4) and Terrell Owens (4) had more such seasons in their respective careers.
