NFL stats and records, Week 2: QB Jared Goff leads Lions in explosive return to form vs. Bears

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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 2 of the 2025 NFL season.

A high-scoring overtime game between bitter division rivals? Sign me up.

Giants at Cowboys, relegated to the early Sunday time slot (a rarity in this rivalry), would have made any prime-time audience happy. In the fourth quarter and overtime alone there were six lead changes — tied for the most in a game in NFL history (there were also six in Week 14, 2013 when the Ravens defeated the Vikings, 29-26).

The star of the highest-scoring game of a high-scoring Sunday was Cowboys kicker Brandon Aubrey, who connected on a 64-yarder as time expired in regulation to send the game to overtime, then hit a 46-yard game-winner as time expired in the extra frame.

Aubrey is the first player in NFL history to convert a game-tying field gal with no time remaining in the fourth quarter and a game-winning field goal with no time remaining in overtime in the same game.

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