Here’s the Highlights From NFL Week 6

CLOSE GAMES: Week 6 continued the early season trend of close games, as seven were decided by seven or fewer points.

That brings the season total to 47 such games, tied for the second-most games decided by seven or fewer points through six weeks in NFL history (50 in 1999).

The most games decided by seven or fewer points through Week 6:

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OVERTIME EXCITEMENT: Week 6 included two overtime games, marking the third consecutive week of multiple overtime games, the first time this has happened since a four-week streak in Weeks 10-13 of 2012.

Nine games have gone to overtime so far this season, tied for the third-most through six weeks in NFL history.

The most overtime games through Week 6 in NFL history:

SCORING HIGHS: NFL teams have combined for 4,243 points in 2015, the second-most points through six weeks in NFL history (4,250 in 2014).

That total equates to 46.63 points per game. If the current average stays at this pace, it would rank as the second-highest of any season (2013, 46.82 points per game) since 1970.

The seasons with the highest scoring average since the merger:

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TOUCHDOWNS GALORE: Teams have combined to score 481 touchdowns, the most at this point of any season in NFL history (479 in 2014).

Of the 481 touchdowns, 293 have been touchdown passes, the second-most through the first six weeks of any season. The record is 303 in 2014.

The most touchdown passes through six weeks of a season in NFL history:

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A look at some notable individual accomplishments through Week 6:

• Denver quarterback PEYTON MANNING has helped the Broncos begin the season 6-0. It marks the sixth time in his career he has led his team to a 6-0 start, the most of any starting quarterback in NFL history.
• San Diego quarterback PHILIP RIVERS, who completed 43 of 65 passes (66.2 percent) for 503 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions for a 99.7 passer rating at Green Bay, started his 150th consecutive game on Sunday. He is only the fourth quarterback in NFL history to start at least 150 consecutive games (BRETT FAVRE, PEYTON MANNING and ELI MANNING).

In Week 6, Rivers set single-game team records for completions (43), attempts (65) and passing yards (503).

• Carolina quarterback CAM NEWTON rushed for a touchdown and threw the game-winning touchdown pass with 32 seconds remaining in the Panthers’ 27-23 win at Seattle. It marked the 27th time in his career – and third time this season – that Newton has had both a passing and rushing touchdown in the same game, the second-most in NFL history (Pro Football Hall of Famer STEVE YOUNG, 31).

RODGERS’ RECORD: Green Bay quarterback AARON RODGERS passed for 255 yards with two touchdowns, no interceptions and a 107.7 passer rating in the Packers’ 27-20 win over the Chargers, as he reached 30,000 career passing yards. He got to the mark in 3,652 attempts, the fewest needed to reach 30,000 passing yards in NFL history. Pro Football Hall of Famer JOHNNY UNITAS held the previous record at 3,695 attempts.

Rodgers reached 30,000 passing yards in his 116th career game, the fourth-fewest games of any player to reach the milestone. Only Pro Football Hall of Famer DAN MARINO (114), KURT WARNER (114) and PEYTON MANNING (115) reached 30,000 yards in fewer games. Rodgers’ 116 games include seven contests at the beginning of his career in which he appeared in relief of BRETT FAVRE in a backup role from 2005 to 2007.

The players to reach 30,000 passing yards in the fewest attempts and games played:

IMPOSING IVORY: New York Jets running back CHRIS IVORY, who rushed for 166 yards and a touchdown in Week 5, had 146 rushing yards and a touchdown in the Jets’ 34-20 win over Washington on Sunday.

Ivory, who went undrafted out of Tiffin University in 2010, became only the fourth undrafted player in NFL history to gain at least 140 rushing yards in two consecutive games. Ivory joins TANK YOUNGER (LA Rams, 1954), MARCEL SHIPP (Arizona, 2003) and C.J. ANDERSON (Denver, 2014) as the only players to accomplish the feat.