NFL stats and records, Week 9: Seahawks QB Sam Darnold has memorable Sunday night performance vs. Commanders

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2025-11-03

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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 9 of the 2025 season.

The Seahawks looked dominant on Sunday Night Football against the Commanders as they quickly took a 28-0 lead behind four Sam Darnold touchdown passes. Darnold, who signed a three-year contract with Seattle this past offseason, completed all 16 of his pass attempts in the first half for 282 yards and four touchdowns. No quarterback since Tom Brady during the Patriots’ perfect 2007 regular season had started a game with a pass touchdown on each of his team’s first four possessions while also having a completion percentage of 100 on those drives.

Darnold finished the game with just three incomplete passes (including an interception) and zero sacks taken — joining Johnny Unitas (1967 against the Falcons) as the only quarterbacks in the Super Bowl era with at least 325 pass yards, four pass TDs, three or fewer incomplete passes and zero sacks taken in a single game.

Cris Collinsworth and Mike Tirico touched on the MVP case for Darnold on the SNF broadcast … and they may have a point.

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Jaxon Smith-Njigba added another 129 receiving yards on Sunday Night Football to his NFL-best total in 2025. The 23-year-old wideout leads the NFL with 948 receiving yards in eight games played, putting him on-pace for the first ever 2,000-yard season receiving.

Smith-Njigba’s 948 yards are the most by any player under the age of 25 in his first eight games of the season. He surpassed Hall of Famer Isaac Bruce’s total from 1995 (938 receiving yards in his first eight games). Bruce finished with a gaudy 1,781 yards on 119 receptions and 13 touchdowns in ’95.

The Seahawks star has now gone over 100 yards receiving in six of his eight games played this season, already tying Hall of Famer Steve Largent (1979) for the most games with at least 100 receiving yards in a season in Seahawks history.