NFL Research spotlights the best nuggets from each slate of games. Here are the most eye-popping statistical accomplishments from Week 7 of the 2025 NFL season.
1) No lead is safe in 2025
There have been 26 games with a lead change in the final two minutes of regulation this season, the most in NFL history through seven weeks. One of the most improbable comebacks in recent memory was accomplished by the Broncos on Sunday.
Denver trailed 19-0 entering the fourth quarter, getting shut out at home by a 2-4 Giants team that was starting to find its groove. Bo Nix was struggling, penalties were mounting (the Broncos finished with 12 accepted flags against them), and the G-Men looked like they were about to earn yet another signature win against a 2024 playoff team.
Then, chaos reigned. The Broncos put up 33 points in the final frame alone, the most points scored in league history by any team that had been shut out through the first three quarters of a game. In doing so, Denver was able to come away with a last-second 33-32 victory. Prior to that result, teams were 161-0 since 2007 when shutting out an opponent and leading by 18 points or more after three quarters.
2) Maye topples a Brady record
Drake Maye was the star of the show in Mike Vrabel's victorious return to Tennessee, where the Patriots took down the Titans, 31-13. The second-year quarterback had as many incomplete passes (two) as he had touchdown passes in Week 7.
Maye finished 21-of-23 for 222 yards and two TDs, and he added another 62 rushing yards on eight carries. He is the first player in the Super Bowl era to complete 90 percent of his passes, throw for more than 200 yards and rush for more than 50 yards in a single game.
Maye's 91.3 completion percentage broke Tom Brady's franchise record of 88.5, which he set against the Jaguars in 2009.
In each of his last six games, Maye has eclipsed 200 passing yards and finished with a passer rating of at least 100. That is exceptionally rare for a player as young as Maye. In fact, he is one of just three quarterbacks with a six-game streak with that stat line at age 23 or younger -- the others being Patrick Mahomes in 2018 and Dan Marino in 1984, both of whom won NFL MVP in those respective seasons.
On Sunday, Maye also became the fourth player in the Super Bowl era with at least two passing touchdowns, two or fewer incompletions and 60-plus yards on the ground, joining Lamar Jackson in 2019 against the Bengals, Robert Griffin III in 2012 against the Eagles and Walter Payton in 1983 against the Saints.
3) Taylor and Jones have become an unstoppable duo
Jonathan Taylor has had three games with at least three rushing touchdowns in 2025. The rest of the NFL combined has two such outings. Taylor is the fourth player since 1950 to have at least three rushing touchdown "hat tricks" within his first seven games of the season, joining Derrick Henry in 2021, Priest Holmes in 2004 and Jim Brown in 1958.
As he did four seasons ago, the 2021 rushing champion is again leading the NFL in rushing yards and rushing touchdowns, while ranking second in carries (just one tote behind Christian McCaffrey). Taylor swept all three categories in '21 to win the RB triple crown. If the Colts back can do it again this season, he will become the first multi-time winner of said crown since Jim Brown.
Not to be lost in Taylor's heroics is Daniel Jones' historic start to his Colts career. Indianapolis is averaging a league-best 33.1 points per game in 2025. For those counting at home, that is 232 points total, which is the most scored by the Colts through seven games since 1964 (237). The only other quarterback since 2000 to lead a team to 230-plus points in his first seven starts for the franchise is Patrick Mahomes (242 points).
Jones' superpower has been his consistency. He has posted a passer rating of 100-plus in six of seven games so far with the Colts. More than that, he's thrown for at least 200 yards and completed over two-thirds of his passes in every single game on the campaign. No player in the history of the NFL had ever hit those marks in his first seven games of a season.
4) CMC is matching a former MVP
Christian McCaffrey leads the NFL with 185 touches (31 more than any other player) and 981 scrimmage yards. The 29-year-old running back put on a spectacular performance in Sunday night's 20-10 win over the Falcons, rushing for 129 yards and two touchdowns and adding seven receptions for another 72 yards. It was the first time McCaffrey went for over 200 scrimmage yards since being traded to the 49ers.
McCaffrey (465 rushing yards and 516 receiving yards) is the second player in NFL history with 450-plus rushing yards and 450-plus receiving yards in his first seven games of the season, joining Hall of Famer Marshall Faulk, who did so in 2000. Faulk went on to win NFL MVP that season.
Sunday Night Football marked the seventh game in McCaffrey's career in which he had at least 100 rushing yards and 70 receiving yards, which breaks a tie with Faulk and Priest Holmes for the most such games in NFL history.
