Anything can happen in the NFL, and the start to Week 6 of the 2026 season certainly hammered home that fact. In the Denver Broncos (4-2) 17-14 "Thursday Night Football" overtime win over the Seattle Seahawks, they triumphed at home despite averaging 2.9 yards per play. That's the fewest in Sean Payton's 318-game head-coaching career, and Denver's 168 total yards of offense ranked as their fewest in a victory since Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback John Elway's first start as a rookie in 1983.
Quarterback Bo Nix, who ranks dead last in the NFL in yards per pass attempt at 5.6, improved to a 13-3 career record in games when he averages six yards per pass attempt or fewer, the best of all-time minimum 15 starts per CBS Sports Research, after averaging 4.0 yards per pass attempt on Thursday. All other active quarterbacks have a combined .283 winning percentage in starts where they average six yards per pass attempt or fewer. That's absolutely unfathomable.
What other hijinks could take place across the rest of the NFL's Week 6 slate? Here is a look at five bold predictions. The Green Bay Packers are back above .500 after quarterback Jordan Love's laser show (367 yards and 2 passing touchdowns while completing 25 of his 31 throws) in a 31-7 beatdown of the Chicago Bears at Lambeau Field in Week 5.
Now that they have a winning record, they're now the owners of the third-fewest rushing yards per game (60.4) by any team above .500 through five games of a season in league history, per CBS Sports Research. Green Bay's NFL-worst rushing offense also ranks as the fewest rushing yards per game through games of any season in the Packers' 106-season franchise history. Some of that has to do with the absence of running back Josh Jacobs, who is on the commissioner's exempt list after being charged with two misdemeanors, and some of that has to do with the team's beat-up offensive line.
However, the offensive line has stabilized with veterans Laken Tomlinson and Travis Glover stabilizing the team's guard play. That's one of the reasons why the Packers will run for over 100 yards as a team for the first time in 2026 against the Dallas Cowboys on "Sunday Night Football." The others are that Green Bay running back MarShawn Lloyd is a freight train at 5 feet 9 inches tall and 220 pounds, and the Cowboys have the league's worst run defense (168.4 rushing yards allowed per game). Dallas allowed the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to go off for 241 yards rushing, their most in a game since 2024, on "Thursday Night Football" in Week 5.
Facing a leaky defense like that and Lloyd fresh off running through Bears cornerback Jaylon Johnson's face for a touchdown in Week 5, Lloyd and the Packers cross the century mark on the ground for the first time this season. Marshawn Lloyd trucks a guy on his way to the end zone 😤@CHIvsGB on FOX/FOX OneStream on @NFLPlus pic.twitter.com/NNcSwQfTOU Houston Texans quarterback C.J. Stroud is quietly playing efficient football: he has the fifth-most passing attempts without an interception (185) through five games in NFL history while throwing for the fourth-most passing yards in the NFL (1,402) this season.
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