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Inside Week 13 NFL numbers: Packers QB stuns in one category
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Inside Week 13 NFL numbers: Packers' Jordan Love outperforms HOFer in this category

Using Stathead from Pro Football Reference, Yardbarker shines a spotlight on key names and numbers from Week 13 in the NFL: 

Love is here to stay? In Green Bay's 27-19 win over Kansas City, first-year starter Jordan Love threw for three TD passes and no interceptions — the fourth time this season he has done so. Love is following in the footsteps of Pro Football Hall of Famer Brett Favre and future Hall of Famer Aaron Rodgers. Consider this: In Favre's first season as a starter (1992), he only had one game with three TD passes and no picks. In Rodgers's first year as a starter (2008), he only had two such games.

CeeDee's catches: Dallas wide receiver CeeDee Lamb caught 12 passes for 116 yards and a touchdown in Dallas's 41-35 win over Seattle. It's the fifth game this season in which Lamb has caught at least 11 passes, by far the most in one season in Cowboys history. No other Dallas receiver has had more than two such games in a season.

Rookie Ram sets record: Los Angeles Rams rookie wide receiver Puka Nacua caught four passes for 105 yards and a touchdown in the Rams' 36-19 win over Cleveland. Nacua has 1,029 receiving yards, the team's season record for receiving yards by a rookie. Eddie Kennison previously held the franchise record with 924 receiving yards in his rookie year in 1996.

Assessing Wilson's picks: Denver quarterback Russell Wilson threw three interceptions in a 22-17 loss to Houston. For all the criticism he has faced since being traded from Seattle in 2022, this was only Wilson's second game as a Bronco with three interceptions. Wilson threw three picks in Denver's 51-14 Christmas Day loss to the Los Angeles Rams in Week 16 of 2022.

Lions pounce: Detroit jumped on New Orleans by scoring 21 points in the first quarter of a 33-28 win. It was the most points the Lions scored in the first quarter of a game since Dec. 11, 2011, against Minnesota. It also was the most points Detroit scored in the first quarter of a road game since Nov. 5, 1944. That day, the Lions scored 21 in Pittsburgh against "Card-Pitt," the one-year merger of the Chicago Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers necessitated by World War II.

Low voltage: The Chargers' 6-0 win at New England set a franchise record for the fewest points scored in a win. It was also the first time the Chargers won without scoring a touchdown since Nov. 27, 1995, when they beat the Oakland Raiders 12-6 on four field goals.

Safety first: In the first quarter of offensively challenged New York's 13-8 loss to Atlanta, the Jets tackled Falcons running back Bijan Robinson in the end zone for a safety. It was the third safety the Jets have scored this season, tying a franchise record set in 2011.

Eagles grounded: Philadelphia only gained 46 rushing yards in a 42-19 loss to the San Francisco 49ers, its fewest rushing yards in a game since their 2018 wild-card win at Chicago (42).

Cards escape steel trap: On the road, heavy underdog Arizona shocked Pittsburgh 24-10. The Cardinals had lost in each of their past three visits to Pittsburgh, with their last win in western Pennsylvania coming as the St. Louis Cardinals at Pitt Stadium on Oct. 5, 1969.

Lack of command: Washington has allowed 45 points in each of its past two games (45-10 at Dallas in Week 12, 45-15 against Miami on Sunday). The last time Washington allowed that many points in two straight games was in 1954 (51 against the Giants on Oct. 10, 49 to Philadelphia on Oct. 17).

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