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QUARTERBACKS
Tom Brady, amongst quarterbacks who threw at least 30 passes in Week 1, led the way with 59.4 percent of his 32 passes being thrown on first down.
Sam Bradford was the only signal caller to throw 50 passes in Week 1. He attempted 52. His 35 completions tied with Tony Romo for the most in football (Romo attempted 45 passes).
Nick Foles and Ben Roethlisberger both had four pass plays of at least 25 yards in Week 1 to lead football.
Marcus Mariota led the way with a percent 158.3 QB Rating out of the shotgun. Next in line was Aaron Rodgers at 132.0.
Carson Palmer had a perfect 158.3 QB Rating when working out of a two wide receiver set. Aaron Rodgers had a perfect 158.3 mark in three wideout sets. Andy Dalton, yeah the Bengals signal caller, had a 144.9 mark to lead football when there were four wide receivers on the bump.
Philip Rivers threw for 404 yards in Week 1 to lead the way. He also had 302 yards after the catch by his receivers, the most in football.
RUNNING BACKS
Carlos Hyde led all runners with 168 rushing yards. He also was the only back in football who carried the ball more than seven times on first 
down with 11. Hyde’s 11 carries led to 115 yards. Only three other men in football ran for 115 yards on all their carries in Week 1: Matt Forte (141), DeAngelo Williams (127) and Alfred Morris (121).
Hyde also led the way with six runs of at least 10 yards. DeAngelo Williams, yes the old slow guy who used to play in Carolina and now suits up for the Steelers, was second in football with five such runs. He looked good in Week 1, but it also goes to show you that systems matter.
LeSean McCoy didn’t perform well in Week 1 as he wasn’t fully healthy (he’s had a setback in practice during Week 2 as well putting his effort this week in doubt). McCoy was “stuffed” on five carries last week, the most in football (Marshawn Lynch was second with four). McCoy carried the ball 17 times to 18 times for Lynch. Chris Ivory didn’t get stuffed once in his 20 carries for the Jets.
Darren Sproles led the way with a 10.0 YPC mark on carries 1-10. He only carried the ball five times for 50 yards. The leader for a guy who actually carried the ball 10 times was Matt Forte at 8.3 YPC. DWill was the leader in carries 11-20 at 6.6 YPC (actually Justin Forsett was at 7.5, but since he only had four carries in the 11-20 range, I didn’t count him. I’m tough like that).
WIDE RECEIVERS
No wideout in football was targeted more than the 17 passes thrown at Kenan Allen. He caught 15 of them by the way. T.Y. Hilton was second with 14 targets.
Antonio Brown was the only wideout in football who caught two passes of at least 25 yards.
Julio Jones caught nine passes with eight of them going for first down. Jones tied Allen with eight catches for a first down.
Ted Ginn Jr. was the only wideout in football to officially be labeled as having dropped two passes.
T.Y. Hilton had seven passes thrown his way that weren’t caught. Yeah, Andrew Luck had a rough week. Vincent Jackson also had seven balls thrown his way that weren’t caught. Blame his rookie quarterback, Jameis Winston.
DeAndre Hopkins was the only wideout in football who was targeted three times inside the 20-yard line. Two of those targets were inside the 10, the only wideout targeted more than once that deep on the field.
Emmanuel Sanders caught five passes for a first down when his team was operating on third down. Seems likely Peyton Manning trusts someone.
Kendall Wright led all wideouts, with at least four receptions, with a 25.3 YPC mark (four catches for 101 yards).
TIGHT ENDS
Three tight ends had 100-yards and two scores: Austin Seferian-Jenkins, Travis Kelce and Tyler Eifert. That never happens. Gronk and 
Witten didn’t get to 100-yards but both scored at least twice (Gronk had three).
Three tight ends had 10 targets: Tyler Eifert (12), Heath Miller (11) and Jordan Reed (11).
Three tight ends caught at least eight passes: Eifert (9), Witten (8) and Miller (8).
Four tight ends caught passes of at least 40-yards: Gronk (52), Darren Fells (48), Kelce (42) and ASJ (41).
Jordan Cameron and Austin Seferian-Jenkins were the only two tight ends in football who caught two passes of at least 25 yards.
Tyler Eifert had the most first downs at the position with six.
Rob Gronkowski scored three times. He was also the leader at the tight end position, tied with Jason Witten, with three targets inside the 20-yard line. Witten only scored two times. Gronk was the only one targeted twice inside the 10-yard line.
Travis Kelce caught all six of his targets. That was the best of any tight end in football.
RECORDS IN REACH
Drew Brees is three touchdown passes short of 400, a total only three men have reached: Peyton Manning (530), Brett Favre (508) and Dan Marino (420). Tom Brady needs four touchdown passes.
Andrew Luck has 88 touchdown passes in 49 games. He won’t set the all-time record through 50 games, that’s 114 from the right arm of Dan Marino, but with three scores he will tied Peyton Manning and Jonny Unitas (two scores will allow him to tie Carson Palmer).
Adam Vinatieri will move into third place on the all-time points list for kickers with five points this week. He has 2,146 with Morten Anderson at the top (2,544).
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