What are your 2026 perceptions of the following players?
- Drake Maye
- Aaron Rodgers
- Deshaun Watson
- Kirk Cousins
- Tyler Shough
- George Pickens
- CeeDee Lamb
- Jameson Williams
- Amon-Ra St. Brown
- MarShawn Lloyd
How would your perception change if Week 5 happened in Week 1?
The Patriots and Raiders were two of the season's biggest early stories. The Raiders started 3-0, and Cousins was on pace to throw 51 touchdown passes.
Imagine if they opened Week 1 by losing 45-17 and Fernando Mendoza closed the game?
The Patriots are the inverse. They looked lost. Maye was the Dynasty QB2 on KeepTradeCut.com to open the season before dropping to QB8. He was QB31 through three weeks, outscored by two Seahawks and two Commanders quarterbacks.
Over the last two weeks?
Overall QB1, outscoring QB2 Joe Burrow by 16 points. Where is the conversation if he opened the season in that manner?
Rodgers is the funhouse version of Cousins. QB31 through two weeks. No two-week starter had fewer points. The last three weeks? QB3, throwing three touchdowns in all three games.
The Browns were the feel-good story leaving Week 4. What if Watson started the season by completing 45% of his passes for 155 yards?
Tyler Shough was on a record-breaking pace through Week 4. How would we view him if he opened with 96 yards, 2 interceptions, and 0 touchdowns?
Pickens was WR40 and Williams WR42 through four weeks. Lamb was WR2 and St. Brown WR3. Imagine if we opened the season with Pickens at WR4, Williams at WR9, St. Brown at WR23, and Lamb at WR84?
Lloyd? Well, the Packers still can not run the ball, but he is RB7 for the week after hitting waivers for failing to live up to expectations.
"But Jeff, it's just one week."
I agree.
And Week 1 was just one week.
A month ago.
It is a new day.
Blind Resume
| Player | Receptions | Receiving Yards | Touchdowns |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | 6 | 124 | 2 |
| B | 6 | 143 | 2 |
| C | 6 | 123 | 0 |
| D | 8 | 110 | 1 |
| E | 7 | 104 | 1 |
| F | 11 | 121 | 1 |
| G | 7 | 113 | 1 |
| H | 7 | 118 | 0 |
| I | 9 | 130 | 1 |
| J | 5 | 102 | 1 |
The NFL is handing out 100-yard receiving games like Oprah. Week 4 saw 14 100-yard games. Week 5 sits at 10, with a potential Monday Night shootout. That is with two potential high-volume passing teams, Carolina and Kansas City, on a bye.
In 2025, only two weeks had more than 10 players at the mark: 13 in Week 5 and 12 in Week 2. There were three other weeks with 10. We already have three double-digit weeks in the first five.
Can you place this production?
Stats Of The Week
Jahmyr Gibbs, Detroit: 151 Rushing Yards, 2 Rushing Touchdowns, 5 Receptions, 56 Receiving Yards
Gibbs made history. His two touchdowns brought his career total to 58, surpassing Barry Sanders as the most by a player before age 25. Gibbs will not turn 25 until after the season, giving him plenty of time to build a lead in the record books.
This was the 17th game with 150+ rushing yards, 2+ touchdowns, 5+ receptions, and 50+ yards. De'Von Achane did it in Week 10, 2025; he is the only player since Josh Jacobs in 2022.
Gibbs 17-game pace: 1,713 rushing yards, 23.8 touchdowns, 91.8 receptions, 826.2 receiving yards. This performance puts Gibbs back on pace to break Chris Johnson's single-season scrimmage yards record of 2,509. Gibbs has been on the DraftKings main slate three weeks in 2026 and has landed in the MilliMaker's optimized lineup every time.
Jaylen Warren, Pittsburgh: 101 Rushing Yards, 1 Rushing Touchdown, 6 Receptions, 87 Receiving Yards, 1 Receiving Touchdown
The complete list of players with a 100-1 / 6-80-1 stat line since 2009: Warren and Christian McCaffrey. Warren is the 13th in history with those numbers. Since Rico Dowdle missed Week 3 with an injury, Warren has averaged 107 rushing yards, 4 receptions, and 56 receiving yards in three games. That season-long pace? 1,819 rushing yards, 68 receptions, and 952 receiving yards.
Aaron Rodgers, Pittsburgh: 235 Passing Yards, 3 Touchdown Passes, 537 Career Touchdown Passes, 4th All-Time
Rodgers is on a hot streak following Warren's emergence. Rodgers has three passing touchdowns in three consecutive games for the 10th time in his career. His last streak was in 2021. He ties Peyton Manning with ten streaks of three or more games, the most all time. Rodgers needs two more touchdown passes to tie Manning for third-most in NFL history, behind Tom Brady (649) and Drew Brees (571). Brady has the longest streak of 3 passing touchdown games, going 10 games in 2007. Rodgers faces Brady's former Buccaneers in Week 6, then plays Manning's hometown, New Orleans, in an International Week 7 game.
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Mike Evans, San Francisco: 7 Receptions, 113 Receiving Yards, 1 Receiving Touchdown
Evans turned in a vintage performance in a key NFC West battle. He moved past DeAndre Hopkins to 18th on the career receiving yardage list, falling 4 yards short of Torry Holt's 17th-place mark. His touchdown tied Tony Gonzalez for 9th on the career touchdown list. Antonio Gates is now 5 away.
He is on pace for 1,108 yards and 10.2 touchdowns. The 49ers need him; Deebo Samuel Sr. picked up a hamstring injury late in the win.
Drake Maye, New England: 374 Passing Yards, 4 Passing Touchdowns, 25 Rushing Yards, 1 Rushing Touchdown
Maye is the ninth player in history with a 350-4/25-1 line. Since 2001, Patrick Mahomes II, Aaron Rodgers, Justin Herbert, and Ryan Fitzpatrick have done it. Maye has accounted for 722 yards and 8 touchdowns in the last two weeks. A Monday night loss to Buffalo will put the Patriots back in first in the AFC East.
Fernando Mendoza, Las Vegas: 6/8 Passing, 48 Passing Yards, 1 Rush, 3 Rushing Yards
Entering Week 4, Mendoza appeared destined to sit all of 2026. Now? The Raiders face a brutal stretch: Buffalo, Los Angeles Rams, at New York Jets, at San Francisco, Seattle, at Denver. Realistically, 2-4 may be a positive run. They will likely be favored to go 0-6. Anything between 5-6 and 3-8 after an 8-game losing streak will be disappointing after the 3-0 start. The question rightly shifts from "if?" to "when?"
Jayden Daniels, Washington: 103 Rushing Yards, 2 Rushing Touchdowns, 199 Passing Yards
Daniels recorded the first 100-yard rushing game by a quarterback since his last 100-yard game in Week 17, 2024. Quarterbacks with more than three 100-yard rushing games: Lamar Jackson (14), Michael Vick (10), Justin Fields (5), Russell Wilson (4). 14 other quarterbacks have multiple 100-yard games; Josh Allen, Jalen Hurts, and Kyler Murray are the only other active quarterbacks with two each.
Daniels was the second quarterback to rush for 100 yards in a tie; Cam Newton did it in a 37-37 game against Cincinnati in Week 6, 2014.