Several key players, including quarterbacks Aaron Rodgers and Michael Penix Jr., sustained injuries during Week 11 games.
Bills quarterback Josh Allen accounted for six touchdowns, becoming the only player in the Super Bowl era to achieve this feat twice.
The NFL’s final international game of the season was played in Madrid, where the Miami Dolphins defeated the Washington Commanders in overtime.
The 32 things we learned from Week 11 of the 2025 NFL season:
0. The jersey number of Buffalo Bills WR Keon Coleman, who was a healthy scratch Sunday after being late to his second team meeting of the season. “Yeah, it is disappointing, but I still believe in the young man,” said Bills coach Sean McDermott. “I believe he will learn from it.”
1. ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ is one of the great, anthemic tracks by Irish rock legends U2 − a musical remembrance of an infamous episode during ‘The Troubles’ that plagued Northern Ireland for decades in the late 20th century.
2. Pivoting to the NFL of the early 21st century, Sunday was figuratively bloody for a lot of teams and players, several key ones sustaining concerning injuries. Pittsburgh Steelers QB Aaron Rodgers, Falcons QB Michael Penix Jr., Green Bay Packers RB Josh Jacobs and Tennessee Titans WR Calvin Ridley, who broke his right fibula, were among notable players who didn’t finish their games. Ridley is done for the year, while the others will be evaluated moving forward − though the prognosis for Rodgers’ injured left wrist already has his status for Week 12 in some doubt.
3. Steelers DB Jalen Ramsey and Cincinnati Bengals WR Ja’Marr Chase both seemed to be suffering from wounded pride in a regrettable incident near the end of Pittsburgh’s 34-12 victory. Ramsey was ejected for throwing hands, though it seems Chase could be preemptively ejected from Cincy’s next game after it appeared he spit toward the perennial Pro Bowl defender.
4. The number of interceptions, matching a career-worst, thrown by Seattle Seahawks QB Sam Darnold in his native Southern California. Miraculously, his team only lost by two points to the Los Angeles Rams, who took outright possession of first place in the NFC West.
4a. The number of sacks, one off the career high for a game he set last month, by Cleveland Browns DE Myles Garrett on Sunday against the Baltimore Ravens, who won 23-16 despite the one-man onslaught. Garrett is now on pace for 25½ sacks, which would smash the NFL single-season record of 22½, which is jointly held by T.J. Watt and Hall of Famer Michael Strahan. Garrett is also the first player to accrue at least a dozen sacks in six consecutive seasons.
5. The number of losses Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid has now suffered following a bye, dropping his record in such games to … 22-5.
6. The number of touchdowns accounted for Sunday by Bills QB Josh Allen, who threw for three and ran for three. He’s the only player in the Super Bowl era (since 1966) to manage such a feat … and he’s now done it twice.
6a. No other team in the league had managed six touchdowns in a game in Week 11 prior to Monday night’s game.
6b. The number of points the Los Angeles Chargers scored Sunday while getting blown out 35-6 by the Jaguars in Jacksonville.
6c and 7. Sick of the whole 6-7 meme yet? Yep, so are we. Thanks for nothing, Jordan Mason.
8. Back to Allen, who raised his chances for back-to-back MVP honors with Sunday’s performance. He’s now accounted for 290 touchdowns in terms of passing (213), rushing (75) and receiving (2), the most ever by a player yet to turn 30 years old.
9. The number of lead changes in the Bills’ 44-32 defeat of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and QB Baker Mayfield, who was drafted No. 1 overall in 2018 – six spots ahead of Allen.
10. The number of games played by the Chiefs, who fell to 5-5 after Sunday’s loss to the AFC West-leading Denver Broncos. It’s the worst 10-game start for K.C. since QB Patrick Mahomes was drafted in 2017.
11. The number of consecutive games, dating to last season, won by the Broncos at Empower Field at Mile High – the league’s longest active winning streak at home.
12. The jersey number of Browns rookie QB2 Shedeur Sanders, who made his unanticipated but highly anticipated regular-season debut in relief of injured starter and fellow rookie Dillon Gabriel in Sunday’s loss to Baltimore.
13.5. Sanders’ passer rating Sunday in a dismal performance that will only add grist to the mill for detractors after the former University of Colorado star surprisingly plummeted to the fifth round of this year’s draft – that free fall largely attributed to the way Sanders conducted himself off the field. He completed four of 16 passes for 47 yards and an interception against the Ravens.
14. Amid Sunday’s rash of injuries, Bryce Young shook off an early ankle issue himself to have the biggest day of his NFL career, throwing for a franchise-record 448 yards and matching a personal best with three TD passes in a 30-27 overtime defeat of the Falcons in Atlanta.
15. Don’t look now, but Young’s Carolina Panthers are suddenly a half-game behind the Bucs in the NFC South standings. The clubs don’t meet for the first time this season until Dec. 21.
+16. The Chicago Bears’ league-best turnover differential after they took the ball away twice in their 19-17 escape from the Vikings in Minnesota.
17. The number of penalties (for 130 yards) committed by the Arizona Cardinals in their 41-22 loss to the San Francisco 49ers.
18. Cards QB2 Jacoby Brissett outdid Young by 4 yards, throwing for a career-best 452 in defeat.
19. Unfortunately for Arizona, its three turnovers − including two INTs by Brissett − couldn’t overcome the Niners, who played a much cleaner game (zero giveaways and just one flag) in QB Brock Purdy’s return to action.
20. 49ers RB Christian McCaffrey racked up 121 yards and three TDs from scrimmage. San Francisco TE George Kittle scored twice, giving him 50 career TDs.
21. The league’s record seventh (and final) international game of the 2025 season was almost inarguably played in the most spectacular overseas venue the NFL has ever visited − Madrid’s Bernabéu Stadium, home of Real Madrid C.F. A field that can be disassembled and nourished underground is among Bernabéu’s many spectacular features.
22. Props to Miami Dolphins CB Jack Jones, whose overtime interception set the Fins up for the game-winning field goal that ousted the Washington Commanders 16-13.
23. Jones also issued a callback to former Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo with his celebration.
24. Speaking of Ronaldo … you’re arguably the best tight end in the league, Trey McBride. But don’t be that soccer-y guy who gets a rule named after him.
25. Commanders LB Bobby Wagner, a future Hall of Famer if there ever was one, made eight tackles in Sunday’s loss. He joined London Fletcher, who used to play for Washington and now does Commanders analysis on radio broadcasts, as the only players with at least 100 tackles in 14 consecutive seasons dating to the 2000 season.
26. Yet Wagner wasn’t the primary tackling machine Sunday in Spain. Miami’s Jordyn Brooks had 20, half of them unassisted, and the most by any player in a single game this season. Brooks’ 125 stops in 2025 pace the league.
27. Seahawks WR Cooper Kupp had three catches for 23 yards but couldn’t notch a win in his first game against the Rams, the team that drafted and for whom he was the MVP of Super Bowl 56.
28. But the ever-classy Kupp did get a video tribute from his first NFL team and a receiving line of well-wishing former teammates.
29. As for the man who effectively replaced Kupp, WR Davante Adams? He had one 1-yard reception for a touchdown Sunday. It also happened to be the 1,000th catch of Adams’ illustrious career.
30. The score allowed Adams to become the third player in league history to catch at least 10 TD passes in a season with three different teams, Brandon Marshall and Hall of Famer Terrell Owens − neither played for Adams’ Packers, Raiders or Rams − being the others.
31. As for the Rams’ new “Midnight Mode” uniforms, which remind one of the Lakers’ unneeded black ones? Let’s turn the lights on ‘em, eh?
32. Now that YouTube TV and Disney have called a truce to their carriage dispute, it might be time to begin assessing alternatives following Comcast’s dreadful performance while (allegedly) broadcasting NFL games on Sunday.
Bonus 33. Surely Rogers Communications didn’t subject Canadians to this aggravation as the Saskatchewan Roughriders downed the Montreal Alouettes 25-17 to win the 112th Grey Cup on Sunday in Winnipeg.