NFL Research spotlights the best nuggets from each slate of games. Here are the most eye-popping statistical accomplishments from Week 5 of the 2025 NFL season.
1) High-scoring offenses on display through first five weeks
Through Week 5, 11 different teams have scored at least 40 points in a game, including the Texans (44-10 win versus the Ravens) and Colts (40-6 victory against the Raiders) in their wins on Sunday. The Colts, Cowboys and Ravens have each accomplished the feat twice, meaning we've seen a total of 14 40-point efforts -- the most through the first five weeks of any season in NFL history.
2) Bucs have gem pairing in Mayfield-Egbuka
The Buccaneers have scored 135 points and allowed 132 points through five games in 2025. They have trailed in the final minute of the fourth quarter in all five games. They are 4-1 and sit alone atop the NFC South.
The 2025 Buccaneers are the first team in NFL history to win four of their first five games of a season and have all of the victories come by three or fewer points. They are also the first team to win four of their first five games in a season after trailing in every contest with under one minute left in regulation.
Baker Mayfield, now with a career-high and league-best four fourth-quarter comebacks under his belt in 2025, was 29-for-33 passing for 379 yards and two touchdowns in the Week 5 win over the Seattle Seahawks. He became just the third quarterback with at least 375 passing yards and fewer than five incompletions in a single game, joining Kurt Warner and Peyton Manning, who both did so in a playoff game.
Emeka Egbuka torched the short-handed Seahawks defense for 163 yards and a touchdown in the Buccaneers win. Egbuka became the first and only rookie with at least 25 receptions and five receiving touchdowns in his first five career games. The only other rookies in the last 40 seasons with at least 400 receiving yards (Egbuka has 445) and five receiving touchdowns in their first five games were Ja'Marr Chase (2021), Terry McLaurin (2019) and Randy Moss (1998).
Egbuka also joined Mike Evans as the only rookies in Buccaneers history with 100-plus receiving yards in consecutive games.
3) Goff finding groove in new Lions offense
After much overreaction following the Lions' Week 1 loss to the Packers in their first game of the post-Ben Johnson era, Jared Goff and play-caller John Morton have Detroit leading the NFL in scoring offense five weeks into the season. Detroit has scored 161 points over its last four games, including at least 34 in each -- tied for the longest such streak in team history (Weeks 14-17 of last season and a streak from 1952-1953).
Goff, who was 19-for-23 passing for 258 yards and three touchdowns against the Bengals, now leads the NFL with 12 passing touchdowns and a 75.2 percent completion rate. Aaron Rodgers is the only player in the last 15 years to lead the NFL in touchdown passes and completion percentage in the same season, an accomplishment he enjoyed in his 2020 MVP campaign.
Sunday marked the seventh game of Goff's career in which he threw for three touchdowns and completed 80 percent of his passes, tied with Lamar Jackson for the fifth-most of all time. Only Drew Brees (17), Peyton Manning (17), Tom Brady (11) and Rodgers (10) have more.
4) Daniels returns to lineup, makes NFL history
The reigning Offensive Rookie of the Year made his return to the field after missing two games due to a knee injury, leading the Commanders to a 27-10 win against the Chargers at SoFi Stadium by producing 231 passing yards (including a touchdown pass to Deebo Samuel) and 39 rushing yards. Jayden Daniels, playing in his 20th career regular-season game, became the first quarterback in NFL history to rush for 1,000-plus yards within his first 20 career games. The previous record for fewest games needed to reach that mark by a quarterback was 21, accomplished by Lamar Jackson, Justin Fields and Robert Griffin III.
Samuel was Daniels' leading receiver in Week 5, finishing with eight catches for 96 yards and a score. The dual-threat playmaker needed just 4 receiving yards in this game to become the third player in NFL history with at least 5,000 receiving yards and 1,000 rushing yards in his first seven NFL seasons. Samuel joined Hall of Famers (and Washington franchise legends) Bobby Mitchell and Charley Taylor.
