COMEBACKS GALORE: The 2014 season has featured many close games and great comeback victories.
The PITTSBURGH STEELERS overcame an 11-point fourth-quarter deficit on Monday Night Football to win 27-24 over Tennessee. There have been 26 comeback victories of 10+ points, tied for the third-most such comebacks through Week 11 in NFL history (1987, 32; 2012, 28).
TURNAROUND TEAMS: In Week 11, the ATLANTA FALCONS (4-6) defeated Carolina 19-17 and matched their 2013 win total, joining the Cleveland Browns (6-4; 4-12 in 2013), Houston Texans (5-5; 2-14 in 2013) and Washington Redskins (3-7; 3-13 in 2013) as the teams to accomplish the feat this season.
STEEL MONDAY: Pittsburgh running back LE’VEON BELL had 33 carries for 204 yards and a touchdown in the Steelers’ 27-24 win over Tennessee on Monday Night Football. Bell’s 204 yards are the fourth-most ever on MNF and the fifth 200-yard rushing game in MNF history.
The players with 200+ rushing yards on Monday Night Football:
| DATE | PLAYER | TEAM | OPPONENT | RUSHING YARDS |
| 11/30/1987 | Bo Jackson | Los Angeles Raiders | Seattle | 221 |
| 12/9/2002 | Ricky Williams | Miami | Chicago | 216 |
| 9/24/1990 | Thurman Thomas | Buffalo | New York Jets | 214 |
| 11/17/2014 | Le’Veon Bell | Pittsburgh | Tennessee | 204 |
| 11/27/2006 | Shaun Alexander | Seattle | Green Bay | 201 |
The PITTSBURGH STEELERS now have a 42-24 record on Monday Night Football, the third-most MNFwins all-time. The San Francisco 49ers (46-25) and Dallas Cowboys (43-33) are the only clubs with moreMNF wins.
PACKER POINTS: On Sunday, the GREEN BAY PACKERS defeated Philadelphia 53-20 and in Week 10, they won 55-14 over Chicago. The Packers are only the second team in NFL history to score 53+ points in back-to-back games, joining the LOS ANGELES RAMS (1950).
| 2014 GREEN BAY PACKERS | 1950 LOS ANGELES RAMS | |||||
| DATE | OPPONENT | RESULT | DATE | OPPONENT | RESULT | |
| 11/9/14 | Chicago | 55-14 | 10/22/50 | Baltimore | 70-27 | |
| 11/16/14 | Philadelphia | 53-20 | 10/29/50 | Detroit | 65-24 | |
Green Bay also scored 30 points in the first half and became the first team in NFL history to score at least 28 points in the first half of four consecutive home games.
ROOKIES EXCELLING: Below is a sampling of the rookie milestones that were reached in Week 11:
- Tampa Bay rookie wide receiver MIKE EVANS (Round 1, No. 7 overall) had seven catches for 209 yards and two touchdowns in the Buccaneers’ 27-7 win at Washington, becoming the youngest player in NFL history with a 200-yard receiving game (21 years, 87 days old).
The performance marked Evans’ third consecutive game with at least seven catches, 100 receiving yards and a touchdown catch, the first rookie in NFL history to accomplish the feat.
- Cincinnati rookie running back JEREMY HILL (Round 2, No. 55 overall) and Houston rookie running back ALFRED BLUE (Round 6, No. 181 overall) were teammates at Louisiana State University. Hill (152 rushing yards) and Blue (156) each rushed for 150+ yards on Sunday,becoming the first rookies from the same college to rush for at least 150 yards on the same day in NFL history.
Hill, who rushed for 154 yards in Week 9 against Jacksonville, is the second rookie in franchise history with two 150-yard rushing games, joining PAUL ROBINSON (1968).
Blue tied the franchise rookie record for rushing yards (STEVE SLATON, 156 yards vs. Indianapolis on November 16, 2008), and set a single-game club record for carries (36), surpassing the previous mark set by teammate ARIAN FOSTER (33 attempts in two different games).
- San Francisco rookie linebacker CHRIS BORLAND (Round 3, No. 77 overall) had 12 tackles and two interceptions in the 49ers’ 16-10 win at the New York Giants. Borland is the first rookie linebacker in franchise history with two interceptions in a game.
He also joined KEN NORTON, JR. (October 22, 1995) as the only 49ers linebackers with two interceptions in a game over the past 40 years.
GRAY AREA: New England running back JONAS GRAY rushed for 199 yards and four touchdowns in the Patriots’ 42-20 win at Indianapolis on Sunday Night Football. Gray is the first player to score his first four career rushing touchdowns in the same game since 1921 and the third to do so all-time (HERB HENDERSON, 1921; PAT SMITH, 1920).
GOOD LUCK: Indianapolis quarterback ANDREW LUCK passed for 303 yards and two touchdowns against New England on Sunday Night Football, the eighth consecutive game he has passed for at least 300 yards, surpassing PEYTON MANNING (seven) for the third-longest such streak in NFL history.
The players with the most consecutive 300-yard passing games in NFL history:
| PLAYER | TEAM | YEAR(S) | CONSECUTIVE 300-YARD GAMES |
| Drew Brees | New Orleans | 2011-12 | 9 |
| Drew Brees | New Orleans | 2013 | 9 |
| Andrew Luck | Indianapolis | 2014 | 8* |
| Peyton Manning | Denver | 2012-13 | 7 |
| * Active streak |
QUICK TO 12,000: Arizona wide receiver LARRY FITZGERALD had two catches for 33 yards in the Cardinals’ 14-6 win over Detroit. Fitzgerald, who now has 12,025 career receiving yards, became the second-youngest player in NFL history to reach 12,000 receiving yards (31 years, 77 days old). RANDY MOSS reached the milestone at 30 years, 306 days old.
MAXIMUM WATT: Houston defensive end J.J. WATT had five tackles, one sack, a forced fumbled, a fumble recovery and a touchdown catch in the Texans’ win at Cleveland. Watt became the second player in NFL history with two touchdown catches, an interception-return touchdown and a fumble-return touchdown in a season, joining Philadelphia’s JAY ARNOLD in 1938. He is the only NFL player to register a sack, forced fumble, fumble recovery and touchdown reception in the same game since sacks became an official statistic in 1982.
