LEADING THE PACK:
With the season reaching its midpoint, a pair of Jacksonville Jaguars lead the AFC in both rushing and receiving. Running back LEONARD FOURNETTE leads the AFC with 791 rushing yards, while Jaguars wide receiver D.J. CHARK leads the conference with 660 receiving yards.
On Sunday at Wembley Stadium in London against Houston (9:30 AM ET, NFLN), Fournette and Chark could become the first pair of teammates to lead either conference in both rushing and receiving through the first nine weeks of a season since Philadelphia Eagles teammates LESEAN MCCOY (777 yards) and DESEAN JACKSON (823 yards) led the NFC in rushing and receiving through Week 9 in 2013.
DUAL-THREAT: In Weeks 6 and 7, Baltimore quarterback LAMAR JACKSON became the first quarterback to rush for at least 100 yards and a touchdown in back-to-back games in NFL history, and joined MICHAEL VICK (2004, 2006) and RUSSELL WILSON (2014) as the only quarterbacks to have three games with at least 100 rushing yards in a single season in NFL history.
With one rushing yard on Sunday Night Football against New England (8:20 PM ET, NBC), Jackson, who leads the NFL in rushing average (6.94, min. 50 attempts) and leads all quarterbacks with 576 rushing yards, would surpass Vick (576 yards in 2006) for the most rushing yards by a quarterback through his team’s first eight games of a season in NFL history.
The quarterbacks with the most rushing yards through their team’s first eight games of a season in NFL history:
| PLAYER | TEAM | SEASON | RUSHING YARDS | ||
| Lamar Jackson | Baltimore | 2019 | 576* | ||
| Michael Vick | Atlanta | 2006 | 576 | ||
| Bobby Douglass | Chicago | 1972 | 556 | ||
| *In seven games | |||||
