The worst thing about the bye week is no stats column next week. No game, no stats. Sad, isn’t it? So to make up for it, we’ve got two this week.
You can find our Special Edition Jalen Hurts stats post here and now we’ve got our general stats piece, focusing on Saquon Barkley, Tank Bigsby, Dallas Goedert, DeVonta Smith and others.
Next stats piece won’t be until Nov. 12, the Wednesday after the Eagles-Packers Monday night game at Lambeau! That sounds so far off. Please be strong!
1A. It’s crazy for one running back to rush for 100 yards and over 10 yards per carry. For two backs to do it? For the same team? In the same game?That happens about twice per century. With Saquon Barkley (150 rushing yards, 10.7 average) and Tank Bigsby (104 yards, 11.6 average), the Eagles became only the fourth team in NFL history – and second in more than 70 years – with two backs with 100 rushing yards and a rushing average of 10 yards per carry in the same game. In 1934, the Lions did it in a 40-7 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates at University of Detroit Stadium with Ernie Caddell (132 yards, 13.2 average) and Hall of Famer Dutch Clark (110 yards, 12.2 average), in 1954 the 49ers did it in a 31-24 win over the Bears at Wrigley Field with two Hall of Famers – Joe Perry (not the Aerosmith dude) (119 yards, 10.8) and Hugh McElhenny (114 yards, 11.4) – and in 2006 the Jaguars did it with Fred Taylor (131 yards, 14.6) and Maurice Jones-Drew (166, 11.1). Saquon and Tank. Just what we all expected.
1B. Bigsby increased his career rushing average from 4.1 yards per carry to 4.4. Including his 11-yard gain against the Vikings on his first carry as an Eagles, Bigsby has six gains of at least 10 yards on just 10 carries. He ranks 119th in the NFL in carries but only 43 backs have more 10-yard gains.
1C. Not including automatic first-downs on penalties, Bigsby’s 29-yard gain on a 4th-quarter 2nd-and-26 was the Eagles’ longest conversion on any down and 26 yards or more to go since 2015, when Sam Bradford threw a 53-yard touchdown pass to Nelson Agholor on a 2nd-and-26 against the Bills in the last game Chip Kelly won as Eagles head coach. It was the Eagles’ longest conversion on a running play as far back as Stathead tracks play details, which is 1978. It was the longest running conversion league-wide since Jerick McKinnon of the 49ers ran 55 yards for a first down on a 3rd-and-31 against the Jets in 2020. The Eagles’ longest conversion before the Bradford-to-Nelly TD was the famed 4th-and-26 in the 2003 playoff win over the Packers, Donovan McNabb’s 28-yard pass to Freddie Mitchell.
1D. This was the seventh game in Eagles history with two running backs going over 100 rushing yards. Most recently, LeSean McCoy and Bryce Brown did it in a 54-11 win over the Bears at the Linc in 2013. Also: Timmy Brown and Earl Gros vs. the Steelers in 1964, Norm Bulaich and Tom Sullivan vs. the Bills in 1973, Mike Hogan and Sullivan vs. the Seahawks in 1976, Hogan and Wilbert Montgomery vs. the Giants in 1978 and Charlie Garner and Ricky Watters vs. Washington in 1995. The Eagles have had three other games with a quarterback and running back rushing for at least 100 yards.- Donovan McNabb and Duce Staley vs. the Giants in 2002 and Jalen Hurts and Miles Sanders twice – in 2020 vs. the Saints and 2022 against the Packers.
1E. The last Eagle to rush for 100 yards in a game after beginning the season with another team? I guessed Jay Ajayi in 2017, but his biggest game with the Eagles that year was 91 yards. Wrong again. The correct answer is Jerome Harrison, who began the 2010 season with the Browns, was traded to the Eagles in October for Mike Bell, and in his second game in an Eagles uniform ran 11 times for 109 yards in the 59-28 win over Washington at FedEx Field.
2A. The Eagles’ 277 rushing yards Sunday were their 4th-most under Nick Sirianni but only their 11th-most in the last 70 years. They rushed for at least 275 yards seven times from 1952 through 2021 and four times since 2022. The only time the Eagles ran for 275 or more yards with a higher average was in last year’s playoff win against the Rams, when they were 34-for-285 for 8.38. On Sunday they were 33-for-276, which is 8.36. If not for Tanner McKee’s three kneel downs, they would have been 30-for-278 for 9.3. That would have been the 8th-highest average in history by a team rushing for at least 275 yards.
2B. The Eagles have had 275 rushing yards and at least an 8.4 average twice in calendar 2025. No other team has done it once since 2019. They’re the only team in NFL history to rush for 275 yards with an average of at least 8.4 yards in back-to-back seasons.
2C. The Eagles have rushed for 275 or more yards against the Giants more since 1979 than every other team combined. They had 295 yards against the Giants in 2002 – that was the game Donovan and Duce both went over 200. The only other team to rush for 275 yards against the Giants in the last 48 seasons was the Seahawks with 350 in 2014.
3. With two more touchdowns Sunday, Dallas Goedert now has seven TD catches in his last six games. The only players in Eagles history with more TD catches in any six-game span are Bobby Walston (eight in 1954), Pete Retzlaff (eight in 1965), Harold Carmichael (eight in 1979) and T.O. (eight in 2004). The only NFL tight end with more TD catches in any six-game span over the last decade is Travis Kelce, who had two six-game stretches with eight. Goedert had nine TD catches in his previous 40 games. Goedert’s seven TDs are already 6th-most in Eagles history for an entire season by a tight end. Retzlaff had 10 in 1965 and eight in 1964, Brent Celek had eight in 2009 and Zach Ertz had eight in 2017 and 2018. Goedert leads all NFL tight ends with his seven TD catches this year.
4A. Saquon Barkley’s 65-yard touchdown run on the Eagles’ second play from scrimmage was his 12th career TD run of at least 60 yards. Only Adrian Peterson with 15 has more in NFL history. Eight of those 12 have been with the Eagles, five more than anybody else in franchise history. Bosh Pritchard and Miles Sanders each had three. That TD – 17 seconds into the game – was the Eagles’ quickest TD of at least 65 yards since Michael Vick’s 88-yard TD pass to DeSean Jackson 14 seconds into that same 59-28 win over Washington in 2010 that Jerome Harrison ran for over 100 yards. Barkley has played 28 games in an Eagles uniform, so he’s averaging a 60-yard TD run once every 3 ½ games.
4B. The 150-yard game was Barkley’s seventh with the Eagles, breaking a tie with LeSean McCoy for most in Eagles history. Including his four 150-yard games with the Giants, Barkley now has 11 in his career. That’s 15th-most all-time.
4C. Barkley’s four-longest runs of the season came Sunday – the 65-yard TD, a 28-yarder in the third quarter and 18-yarders in the first and second quarters. His longest run the first seven games of the season was a 17-yarder against the Broncos.
4D. Over the last four games, Barkley’s 5.6 rushing average is 7th-highest in the league, and his 282 yards are 8th-most. He raised his rushing average from 3.3 yards per carry going into Week 8 to 4.1 going into the bye. In his only game against the Giants last year, Barkley had 175 rushing yards and a 10.4 average. He’s the only player in history with multiple 150-yard games with a 10 average against the Giants. In 76 games as a Giant, Barkley only had one game with 150 yards and a 10.0 average. And in two games against the Giants he has two. So he now has more games against the Giants with 150 yards and a 10.0 average than he had with them.
4E. Barkley is averaging 7.2 yards per carry in the first quarter, highest in the league. He’s rushed 29 times for 209 yards in the first quarter. De’Von Achane is second at 7.1. Barkley is averaging 3.2 yards per carry in the second through fourth quarters.
5A. Five different Eagles had a sack Sunday. The last three times five different Eagles had a sack in a game it was against the Giants: Fletcher Cox, Brandon Graham, Haason Reddick, Josh Sweat and Milton Williams at the Meadowlands in 2022, Jalen Carter, Nakobe Dean, Bryce Huff, Jalyx Hunt, Nolan Smith and Sweat at the Meadowlands last year and Zack Baun, Carter, Jordan Davis, Hunt and Moro Ojomo Sunday. The five-sack performance ended the Eagles’ franchise-record streak of 12 straight regular-season games without more than two sacks.
5B. Moro Ojomo’s sack was his fourth this year, and that’s already the most sacks in a season by any player the Eagles drafted in the seventh round or later since Clyde Simmons had 5.0 sacks in 1993. The last player drafted in the seventh round or later by any team with 4.0 sacks for the Eagles was Hall of Famer Richard Dent, who had 4 ½ in 1997, his one year with the Eagles.
5C. With Davis, Carter and Ojomo all recording sacks against the Giants, this was only the fifth time since sacks became an official stat in 1982 that three Eagles interior linemen had a sack in the same game and the first time all three were drafted by the Eagles. With Ojomo (4.0 sacks) and Jordan Davis (3.0 sacks) the Eagles are the only NFL team with multiple interior linemen with at least 3.0 sacks. Ojomo is the first player the Eagles have drafted in the seventh round or later with a sack in consecutive games since Mike Flores in 1994.
6. The Eagles have committed just 11 turnovers in their last 25 games, their fewest turnovers ever in any 25-game span. The only NFL team with fewer turnovers in any 25-game span is the Bills, who had overlapping stretches with eight and nine turnovers over the 2024 and 2025 seasons.
7A. With 2-for-8 on third down Sunday, the Eagles are now 8-for-38 on third down over the last four games. That’s 21.1 percent, and that’s their worst 3rd-down percentage in any four-game span since the 2004 Super Bowl season, when they went 8-for-40 during a four-game stretch against the Steelers, Ravens, Browns and Panthers. That 21.1 percent figure is worst by any NFL team this year over a four-game period. During those four games, the Eagles have converted only two fewer fourth downs than third downs. They’re 6-for-7 on fourth down. The Eagles are tied for 27th in the NFL this year on third down at 33.3 percent, and they’re fifth on fourth down at 78.6 percent.
7B. This is the first time since October of 2005 the Eagles have gone four straight games converting 30 percent or fewer of their third downs. They also had a four-game streak in 1992. They’ve never gone five straight games at 30 percent or worse as far back as 3rd-down data is available, which is 1990.
8A. Jahan Dotson became just the fourth Eagle in the last 20 years to catch one pass in a game and have it go for a touchdown of at least 40 yards. The last to do it was DeSean Jackson, who caught an 81-yarder from Jalen Hurts in Dallas in a 37-17 loss late in 2020. That was Jackson’s 389th and final reception as an Eagle. Others with long TDs as their only catch: Mack Hollins with a 64-yarder from Carson Wentz against Washington in 2017 and Jordan Matthews 56 yards from Wentz in Tennessee in 2018
8B. Dotson is tied for 204th in the NFL with eight catches. But only four players have more 40-yard receptions – Jaxon Smith-Nigba has five, and Alec Pierce, Jaylen Waddle and George Pickens have three each.
8C. Dotson has more 40-yard receptions than CeeDee Lamb, Jordan Addison, D.K. Metcalf, Ja’Marr Chase, Courtland Sutton and A.J. Brown
9. DeVonta Smith has 430 yards in his last four games, the most yards he’s ever had in any four-game stretch. That’s the most yards by a player drafted by the Eagles in a four-week stretch since Jeremy Maclin had 476 against the Cards, Texans, Panthers and Packers in 2014. Smith is up to sixth in the NFL with 588 receiving yards and is on pace for a career-high 1,249. He’s 10th in Eagles history with 5,194 yards, just 61 behind Brent Celek for ninth.
10. The Eagles outgained the Giants on the ground by 208 yards – 276 yards for the Eagles, 68 yards for the Giants. That’s their biggest rushing margin against the Giants in the last 160 matchups. In 1947, they outgained the Giants by 222 yards – 261-39 – in a 23-0 win at Shibe Park.
Bonus Stat #1: Zach Baun is only the third Eagles linebacker in the last 25 years with back-to-back seasons with at least 3.0 sacks. Jeremiah Trotter had 3.0 in 2000 and 3 ½ in 2001, and Mychal Kendricks had 4.0 in both 2013 and 2014. Baun’s 6 ½ sacks in 28 games since opening day last year are the most by any linebacker in his first 28 games with the Eagles since Garry Cobb had 11 over the 1985 and 1986 seasons after being traded from the Lions to the Eagles for Wilbert Montgomery.
Bonus Stat #2: The Giants have now gone 18 consecutive years without sweeping the Eagles. That’s the longest any division team has gone without beating the Eagles twice in a season. The next-longest streak by an NFC East opponent without sweeping the Eagles? Washington got a sweep in 1988 and then didn’t sweep the Eagles again until 2005, a streak of 16 consecutive seasons.
Bonus Stat #3: Eagles cornerbacks have now gone a franchise record 27 regular-season consecutive games without an interception, a streak that dates back to Kelee Ringo’s interception off Tyrod Taylor in Week 16 of 2023. Since Week 10 of 2023, Eagles corners have six INTs – two by Josiah Scott, two by Slay, one each by James Bradberry and Ringo. Scott and Bradberry are both out of football.
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