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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 8 of the 2025 NFL season.
The next time the Colts take the field it will be in November. They have the best record in the NFL at 7-1. Jonathan Taylor and Daniel Jones are in the MVP conversation, and the team is setting records nearly every week. The Colts are for real.
Here is one of those aforementioned records: Indianapolis is the first team in the Super Bowl era to allow fewer than 10 sacks and turn the ball over fewer than 5 times in their first eight games of the season. No team has ever taken that good of care of the football (and their quarterback).
In Indy’s Week 8 win over the Titans, Jones had his first game with more than two touchdown passes since 2019. It was the seventh time in 2025 that he has had a passer rating of at least 100 — and that is rare. Exceedingly rare. Here is how rare: There have only previously been three seasons in which a player had a 100-plus passer rating in at least seven of their first eight games in a season (on 25-plus pass attempts): Aaron Rodgers in 2020 and 2011 (both MVP seasons) and Tom Brady in 2007 (MVP season).
Jones’ 2025 season is right up there with Rodgers and Brady’s MVP campaigns. Less than three months ago he was still in a quarterback competition with Anthony Richardson!
Meanwhile, Taylor is leading the NFL in rushing. The 26-year-old running back scored three times in Week 8 (two rush TDs and one receiving TD). It was already his fourth game with at least three touchdown scores this season, the most by any player in a season since LaDainian Tomlinson in 2006 when he set the NFL touchdown record with 31 (and won MVP).
Taylor, who was playing in his 75th career game, also raised his career rush touchdown total to 63 — tying Hall of Famer Earl Campbell and trailing Tomlinson (71), Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith (69) and Adrian Peterson (66) for the fourth-most rush touchdowns in the Super Bowl era by any player in their first 75 career games.
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Another week, another improbable comeback win by an NFL team.
Entering 2025, teams had lost 135 consecutive games when trailing by 15-plus points entering the fourth quarter (including playoffs). With the Jets coming back against the Bengals, there have now been four such wins just in 2025 (the Bills versus the Ravens in Week 1, the Titans at the Cardinals in Week 5, the Broncos versus the Giants in Week 7 and the Jets at the Bengals in Week 8).
The Jets trailed 31-16 entering the fourth quarter — winless in 2025 and coming off a week full of controversary surrounding quarterback Justin Fields‘ job status.
While Fields had a solid game (with a respectable 99.0 passer rating, for those interested in their quarterback’s rating) it was running back Breece Hall who had the historic performance.
Hall finished with 133 rushing yards and two rushing touchdowns, but it was his touchdown pass that gave the Jets their first lead of the game.
Trailing 38-32 with just under two minutes remaining, the Jets had narrowed a once 15-point fourth quarter deficit and with the ball on the Bengals 4-yard line, Hall rolled out to his right on a trick play and threw a tight window touchdown to rookie tight end Mason Taylor.
Hall is the first running back with a go-ahead touchdown pass in the final two minutes of regulation since Hall of Famer Curtis Martin did so in 2000 against the Buccaneers, also on a Jets team with a first-time head coach (Al Groh). Those Jets improved to 4-0 with the win, while the 2025 Jets earned their first win of the season and the first of Aaron Glenn’s career as the head coach.
Hall also became the first running back with at least 125 yards rushing, multiple rush touchdowns and a touchdown pass in a single game since Hall of Famer LaDainian Tomlinson in Week 3, 2005 against the Giants.