2) Jayden Daniels continues historic start to rookie season

Through Sunday, only one team has scored 150 points in 2024: the Washington Commanders, with 155, to be exact.

The Commanders are the first team in the Super Bowl era to score at least 150 points in their first five games of the season while starting a rookie quarterback. And to borrow a phrase from the Move The Sticks podcast, Daniels has been the truck for this offense, not a trailer.

Daniels is the first player in NFL history to pass for at least 1,000 yards and rush for at least 250 in his first five career games. He reached those marks in the Commanders’ 34-13 win against the Browns. The only other players in history with 1,000 yards passing and 200 yards rushing in their first five games were Kyler Murray (2019 Offensive Rookie of the Year) and Robert Griffin III (2012 Offensive Rookie of the Year).

Washington has averaged an absurd 3.37 points per possession in 2024 (averaging more than a field goal’s worth of points every time you get the ball is pretty good). Since 2000, the only teams to average more points per possession in their first five games of the season were the 2000 Rams and the 2013 Broncos. Both of those teams had the NFL MVP that season (Marshall Faulk for the Rams, Peyton Manning for the Broncos).