Week 6 was a week of big individual numbers and a pair of unbeaten teams giving way. De’Von Achane ran for 295 yards in Miami, Caleb Williams threw for 393 in Chicago, and both New England and Seattle suffered their first losses of the season. Chicago and Green Bay each stood at 5-0 when the dust settled, while Tennessee fell to 0-6.

Week 6 Recap

Miami 34, Los Angeles Chargers 23. The Dolphins’ ground game was historic. Achane carried 26 times for 295 yards and three touchdowns (28, 47 and 2 yards) as Miami out-rushed the Chargers 314-130 and won a game with six lead changes. Los Angeles led 17-13 at halftime and 23-20 after three quarters behind Justin Herbert (25-of-45, 260 yards, two touchdowns) and a trio of Cameron Dicker field goals, but Ollie Gordon II’s one-yard score and Achane’s final touchdown with three minutes left sealed it.

Detroit 37, Kansas City 29. Tim Ervin’s Chiefs trailed 31-17 after three quarters and nearly pulled it out. Tyquan Thornton caught two touchdowns, including a 54-yarder with 4:48 left, and finished with a league-best 188 receiving yards as Patrick Mahomes threw for 335 and three scores. Jake Bates answered with a 43-yard field goal at 1:45 to push the margin back to eight; he made three field goals on the day, including a 51-yarder. Kansas City got the ball back with first-and-goal at the Detroit 2, no timeouts and 15 seconds left. Ervin called a pass, saw his quarterback sacked and then chose hurry-up rather than spiking the ball—and the clock ran out. Jahmyr Gibbs ran for 93 yards and a touchdown as Detroit out-rushed Kansas City 182-116.

Chicago 34, Washington 24. Caleb Williams threw for 393 yards and three touchdowns on a league-high 51 attempts, and the Bears scored 21 points in the fourth quarter to remain unbeaten at 5-0. Washington had grabbed a 21-16 lead on Marcus Mariota’s second touchdown pass to Terry McLaurin (144 yards, two scores), but Rome Odunze and Cole Kmet caught touchdowns from Williams and Cairo Santos kicked four field goals, finishing with a league-best 14 points.

Tampa Bay 24, San Francisco 23. Down 17-6 at the half, the Buccaneers rallied with Emeka Egbuka’s nine-yard touchdown catch, Rachaad White’s 16-yard run and a 63-yard Chase McLaughlin field goal. San Francisco scored with 1:37 left to make it 24-23 and went for two; Tampa Bay keyed on Christian McCaffrey as a runner, and the Niners instead threw to him, but the pass fell incomplete. Tampa Bay ran out the clock to move to 5-1. McCaffrey ran 26 times for 107 yards in the loss.

Indianapolis 34, Arizona 20. Tony Telleria’s Colts trailed 10-7 after one quarter and outscored John Carter’s Cardinals 27-10 the rest of the way. Josh Downs caught three touchdowns from Daniel Jones (35, 10 and 2 yards), Tyler Warren added a five-yard score, and Blake Grupe kicked field goals of 48 and 50 yards. Indianapolis sacked Jacoby Brissett twice and forced a fumble in the third quarter, and Camryn Bynum’s interception in the final seconds ended Arizona’s comeback hopes after Brissett had cut it to 27-20. Jonathan Taylor ran 22 times for 87 yards as Indianapolis moved to 5-1.

Baltimore 30, Los Angeles Rams 26. Scott Schumacher’s Rams outgained the Ravens and ran away with almost every statistic except the score. Special teams made the difference: LaJohntay Wester’s 59-yard punt return set up Lamar Jackson’s first touchdown sneak, and a 35-yard return near the end of the half set up Derrick Henry’s two-yard score. Harrison Mevis missed the extra point after Davante Adams’ six-yard touchdown early in the fourth, leaving Los Angeles down four. After Baltimore failed on a 4th-and-8 at the Rams 36, the Rams faced their own 4th-and-8 at the Baltimore 34 and Matthew Stafford’s throw to Colby Parkinson fell incomplete. The Rams ended the game with a 13-play drive that died at the Baltimore 18 as time expired. Kyren Williams rushed 30 times for 208 yards in the loss.

Philadelphia 20, New York Giants 13. Tim Hay’s Eagles hung on against Scott Kaplan’s Giants. Saquon Barkley opened the scoring with a 20-yard touchdown run and finished with 120 yards, and Tank Bigsby added a 22-yard score, but nothing came easily late. After a 70-yard net punt pinned New York at its own two, Kaplan engineered a drive to first-and-goal inside the five, only for Philadelphia’s defense to stuff two runs and force an incompletion—then intercept Jaxson Dart in the end zone on fourth-and-goal from the five. It was Dart’s second end-zone interception of the fourth quarter.

New Orleans 21, New England 13. Dan Suhr’s Saints handed Denis Ljung’s Patriots their first loss of the season. Drake Maye threw two early interceptions, and Tyler Shough threw three touchdown passes, including a 59-yarder to Chris Olave. The Patriots’ best chance at a swing was erased when a Marcus Jones punt-return touchdown was called back by a penalty, and New England could not close a gap that stood at 21-3 in the third quarter.

Jacksonville 23, Seattle 6. The Jaguars’ defense forced six turnovers, and Cam Little did the rest, kicking field goals of 62, 65 and 67 yards. Trevor Lawrence also hit Brian Thomas Jr. for a 73-yard touchdown. Dennis Crowley’s Seahawks out-rushed Jacksonville 171-71 but suffered their first loss at 5-1.

Elsewhere, Zach Zalesne’s Buffalo Bills outlasted Atlanta 42-35 in the week’s highest-scoring game (see below). Dallas snapped a three-game losing streak with a 35-20 win at Carolina, taking the lead on a 42-yard fumble return by Q. Williams just before halftime and getting 140 rushing yards from Javonte Williams; Carolina was flagged nine times for 83 yards and sacked five times. Pittsburgh rolled over Cleveland 34-3 as Aaron Rodgers threw four touchdown passes, two of them to Jaylen Warren, who finished with nine catches for 103 yards. Green Bay beat Cincinnati 34-19, with Jordan Love throwing three touchdown passes and running for another; the Bengals were without two starting receivers. Denver beat the New York Jets 24-10 behind Bo Nix’s 301 yards and two touchdown passes. Las Vegas rallied from a 17-14 halftime deficit to beat winless Tennessee 27-17 as Ashton Jeanty ran for three touchdowns and 108 yards.

Game of the Week: Buffalo Bills 42, Atlanta Falcons 35

The Week 6 Game of the Week was the Zach/Zack Bowl: Zach Zalesne’s Buffalo Bills against Atlanta in a back-and-forth shootout with six lead changes, decided in the closing minutes of the fourth quarter. Atlanta’s Michael Penix Jr. threw touchdown passes of 30 yards to Bijan Robinson and 16 and 2 yards to Kyle Pitts, putting the Falcons up 27-21 after three quarters.

Buffalo scored three times in the fourth. James Cook ran 13 and 10 yards for touchdowns to put the Bills ahead 35-27, and Ty Johnson added a two-yard score with 1:37 left. Cook finished with 127 rushing yards and 134 receiving yards on 15 receptions, a league-high. Josh Allen threw for 373 yards and two touchdowns and added a 24-yard touchdown run; Khalil Shakir caught 11 passes for 140 yards. Buffalo piled up roughly 580 yards of total offense, but two turnovers and a turnover on downs at the goal line kept Atlanta alive.

The Falcons ran for 169 yards and made it interesting, with Robinson scoring on a 15-yard run as time expired and converting a two-point try to cut it to 42-35. The Bills moved to 5-1; Atlanta fell to 1-4.

League Leaders

Week 6 results: Philadelphia 20, New York NFC 13; Indianapolis 34, Arizona 20; Pittsburgh 34, Cleveland 3; Green Bay 34, Cincinnati 19; Dallas 35, Carolina 20; Detroit 37, Kansas City 29; Denver 24, New York AFC 10; Miami 34, Los Angeles AFC 23; Baltimore 30, Los Angeles NFC 26; New Orleans 21, New England 13; Jacksonville 23, Seattle 6; Tampa Bay 24, San Francisco 23; Las Vegas 27, Tennessee 17; Buffalo 42, Atlanta 35; and Chicago 34, Washington 24.