NFL Week 5 Team of the Week: Rico Dowdle mengisi dan bersinar pada hari Minggu
Each week, we’ll offer up the very best of the NFL for a given week, kind of like the fantasy football team you wished you had.
We’ll pick one quarterback, two running backs, two receivers and a tight end – OK, this is sounding a lot like a super-hindsight fantasy football team – as a way to look back on the weekend that was.
We have a familiar face that stood out at wide receiver, and another return performer at running back. Let’s break it down.
Pretty strong week for quarterbacks, with five guys throwing 3+ touchdowns without an interception. But the most compelling game was Mayfield, who finished 29-for-33 for 379 yards with two touchdowns, outdueling Seattle’s Sam Darnold in a shootout in Seattle. Darnold led Seattle on five straight touchdown drives, including a 99-yarder for the lead with 3:18 left. Mayfield answered with one more touchdown drive, hitting Sterling Shepard for the tying score with 1:08 left. His 11.48 yards per attempt is the second-highest of his NFL career, and it’s the fourth-most yards ever in a game with 85% completions, behind games from Lamar Jackson, Justin Herbert and Tom Brady.
Perhaps the most unexpected name on this list — filling in for an injured Chuba Hubbard, he rushed 23 times for 206 yards and a touchdown (with another 28 receiving yards) as the Panthers rallied to beat the Dolphins. It matched the second-most rushing yards in Panthers history, and is easily the most in a game this season, passing the 169 yards Derrick Henry had in Week 1. Dowdle rushed for 1,000+ yards with the Cowboys and had lukewarm interest in free agency, but paid off in a big way for Carolina on Sunday.
Rico Dowdle on Panthers after comeback win vs. Dolphins: “Those guys kept fighting”
Rico Dowdle on the Carolina Panthers comeback win against Dolphins: “Those guys kept fighting.”
Down 10-0 to the Chargers early, the Commanders rallied around JCM — just call him “Bill” — as he rushed for 111 yards and two touchdowns in the comeback win. Washington had three different backs lead them in rushing in the first four weeks, and that’s with Brian Robinson traded to the 49ers and Austin Ekeler lost to a season-ending injury. JCM is a seventh-round pick who was one of the better stories of August, so to see him contributing to tough wins in October is a cool thing.
[Related: Jacory Croskey-Merritt Wins Tom Brady’s LFG Player of the Game]
Rookie dari Ohio State terus memukau, sekarang dengan lima gol dalam lima pertandingan NFL pertamanya. Dia mengatur ulang yang terbaik pribadinya dengan 163 yard dalam kemenangan hari Minggu, menangkap touchdown 20 yard dan mengambil umpan 57 yard untuk mengatur skor lain. Dia adalah Rookie ofensif NFL of the Month untuk bulan September, dan dia akan memiliki kesempatan yang baik pada bulan Oktober seperti yang terjadi. Pilihan keseluruhan ke -19 dalam draft tahun ini akan menantang quarterback dan pelari untuk penghargaan Rookie of the Year jika ia dapat mempertahankan sesuatu yang dekat dengan ini.
Ada duel mantan penerima Buckeyes di Seattle pada hari Minggu, dengan Egbuka mencoba mengikuti JSN – ia memiliki delapan tangkapan untuk 132 yard dan touchdown. Hubungannya dengan Sam Darnold telah kuat melalui lima pertandingan, karena 534 yard penerima berada di urutan kedua setelah Rams 'Puka Nacua. Catatan tim Seattle untuk menerima yard dalam satu musim hanya 1.303, dari DK Metcalf pada tahun 2020, dan JSN berada di kecepatan untuk 1.815 seperti yang berdiri.
Solid Week untuk kontribusi akhir yang ketat – Beberapa minggu, 92 yard Sam Laporta 'Lions dan touchdown akan menang, dan sama untuk Giants' Theo Johnson, yang memiliki dua gol dalam kekalahan mereka. Tapi kita akan pergi dengan Ferguson, yang menangkap sepasang touchdown Dak Prescott dalam kemenangan mereka yang mudah, berakhir dengan 49 yard juga. Ini adalah pertandingan multi-touchdown karir pertamanya-ia pergi semua musim lalu tanpa skor, tetapi sekarang sudah memiliki tiga pada tahun 2025.
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