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NFL Research spotlights the best nuggets from each slate of games. Here are the most eye-popping statistical accomplishments from Week 12 of the 2025 season.
Jahmyr Gibbs has become the premier touchdown scorer in the NFL. Since being drafted out of Alabama in 2023, Gibbs leads the NFL with 44 touchdowns. In Week 12 against the Giants, Gibbs added three more, including a 69-yard run in overtime to set up a 34-27 win.
Gibbs finished with 15 carries for 219 yards and two touchdowns, plus 11 receptions for 45 yards and another score. No context is needed to know this is an all-time stat line — but here’s some anyways …
Gibbs became the second player to rush for at least 200 yards and have at least 10 receptions in the same game, joining Hall of Famer LaDainian Tomlinson, who did so in 2002 against the Broncos. Gibbs also became the first Lions player to rush for at least 200 yards in a game since Barry Sanders did so twice during his 1997 MVP campaign.
The 44 touchdowns referenced earlier are tied with Randy Moss for the second-most touchdowns by any player in NFL history prior to his 24th birthday. Standing alone atop that list? Sanders, with 47 touchdowns. Gibbs, who doesn’t turn 24 until March, has the rest of the season to surpass the Lions legend for that all-time record.
Including the playoffs, this was the 13th game in Gibbs’ career in which he scored multiple touchdowns, which ties him with Jim Brown and Rob Gronkowski for the most such games by a player prior to his 24th birthday.
Also — news alert — he is very fast. According to Next Gen Stats, three of the top four speeds by ball-carriers in 2025 belong to the Lions running back.
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Jaxon Smith-Njigba set a new Seahawks single-season record for receiving yards in just his 11th game of the 2025 campaign.
In 1987, Hall of Famer Steve Largent led the NFL with 1,287 receiving yards. That output stood as the Seahawks’ single-season record until DK Metcalf broke it in 2020 with his 1,303 receiving yards. Five seasons later (and just months after Seattle traded away Metcalf), the Seahawks have a new single-season record holder.
In Week 11, Smith-Njigba became the first player in NFL history to record at least 75 receiving yards in each of his first 10 games in a season. In Week 12, he followed that up with a season-best 167 yards and two TDs against the Titans. He joined Hall of Famer Marvin Harrison (2002) and teammate Cooper Kupp (2021) as the only players in NFL history with 11 consecutive games of 75-plus receiving yards at any point in a season.
Smith-Njigba’s 1,313 receiving yards are the third most in the Super Bowl era by a player through their first 11 games played in a season, trailing only Josh Gordon (1,400 in 2013) and Tyreek Hill (1,324 in 2023). The gap of 259 receiving yards between JSN and George Pickens, who ranks second in the league with 1,054 yards, is the largest after 12 weeks in the Super Bowl era — surpassing Hill’s 207-yard advantage over Keenan Allen in 2023.
To make this all the more impressive: The Seahawks have been the most run-heavy team in the NFL, with over 51 percent of their offensive snaps being run plays. No player in the Super Bowl era has ever led the NFL in receiving yards while playing for the team with the lowest passing rate in the league.
With six games to play, Smith-Njigba is on pace for 2,029 receiving yards, which would break Hall of Famer Calvin Johnson Jr.’s record (1,964) and make the Seahawks wideout the first player in NFL history with 2,000 receiving yards in a season.