GAME- DAY NOTES
Facts, figures and story lines for Week 17: IN A SIDEBAR to Steelers- Ravens ( and also a throwback to another time), the Ravens need 93 yards rushing to break the NFL single- season record for yards rushing in a season held by the 1978 New England Patriots
( 3,165).
ON TH E ST RANGE but true side, with his first snap vs. the Bengals, Baker Mayfield will become the first Browns QB to start all 16 games in a season since Tim Couch in 2001.
A. J. BROWN ( Titans) needs 73 yards receiving and Terry McLaurin ( Redskins) needs 81 to make 2019 only the third season in which at least two rookies reached 1,000 in a season.
WITH 67 YARDS
Philadelphia Eagles
receiving, Panthers RB Christan McCaffrey would join Roger Craig ( 1985) and Marshall Faulk ( 1999) as the only players with 1,000 yards rushing an 1,000 receiving in the same season.
DREW BREES is on track to break his own NFL record for completion percentage in a season. He has been on target 75.3% of the time, up from his record 74.4% of 2018.
TH E EAGLES have won six in a row vs. the Giants. If they can make it seven, they win the NFC East. JAMEIS WINST ON’S wild season comes to a close. He needs 92 yards to become the first QB in Buccaneers history to pass for 5,000. This to accompany totals of 31 TD passes and an eye- popping 28 INTs.
TH E BRONCOS will miss the playoffs for a fourth consecutive season since winning the Super Bowl in February 2016. Only two other Super Bowl winners followed with such a streak — the post- Vince Lombardi Green Bay Packers and the New York Giants following Eli Manning’s second upset of New England in 2012.
TECHNICALLY, this could be Tom Brady’s final regular- season game at Gillette Stadium. His contract expires after the season. Just sayin’.
ON TH ING WE DO KNOW is that Sunday will mark a final game for Eli Manning — his last in a Giants uniform. For the record, he will depart with a record of 117- 117, two Super Bowls rings and career passing numbers of 57,023 yards and 366 TDs.