With the NFL adding an extra game back five years ago, splitting the season into thirds become reasonable, and six weeks in, this marks a good point to draw some conclusions. To do so, I tried to come up with numbers that best summarize what we’ve seen play out.
Therefore, rather than just throwing out a bunch of hyper-specific statistics, I chose ten that I believe best represent the storylines that have defined the first one-and-a-half months, tried to give context for those, and then added a few more metrics to each paragraph, which back up what the tape shows.
Let’s get into them:
