Might as well get straight to the main event here and talk about Will Anderson, who was borderline unstopable on Thursday Night against the Buffalo Bills.

Worse than any of that was the injury bug, which hit the Patriots all at once on Sunday. Both Jared Wilson and Will Campbell got carted off, respectively. Brendan Schooler was spotted postgame in a walking boot, Khyiris Tonga didn't finish the game himself, and Morgan Moses also missed time with what the Patriots called an illness.

Still no Joe Burrow, who's back practicing but not ready to return after a Week 2 turf toe injury. Additionally, in worse news is that they'll also be without Ja'Marr Chase, as he's been suspended for spitting on Steelers' corner Jalen Ramsey, and without last season's sack leader, Trey Hendrickson...

Week 11 featured one of the best 1 pm slates of the year, and specifically one of the best "Witching Hours" to boot, with multiple games coming down to the wire from coast to coast. Sunday Night and Monday Night Football...not as good, but an overall good weekend of NFL action. Here are my standout performers as we get closer to Thanksgiving. Gaffney's 2025 NFL Week 11 Team of the Week (First-Team) Offense: Bryce Young (QB, CAR), Ezra Cleveland (OL, JAX), Sean Tucker (RB, TB)

As far as the simple things in life go, beating the Jets is either right at or very close to the top of said things.

The Patriots haven't been super gung-ho with the PA game outside of the Buffalo and Pittsburgh game, but I think there could be some massive opportunities for Drake Maye on that front with the missing pieces on the other side of the ball.

NextGenStats also had Hunter down as being chipped nine total times, and still put up a pass rush win rate of 28.5% on 28 pass rush snaps. An unbelievable player who also cracked the top 50 on the NFL's all-time sack list with 107 on Sunday as well.

Even still, this game was ultimately determined by big plays, and simply put, the Patriots had a ton of them. Both of TreVeyon Henderson's 50-plus yard touchdown runs, Kyle Williams 73 73-yard catch and run score, and even a fourth-and-goal Stefon Diggs touchdown with next to no time remaining in the first half.

Hard to overstate how big this Sunday is for the New England Patriots. Chance to take sole possession of the AFC's No. 1 seed right before a TNF game, a chance for the season sweep vs. the NFC South, and a chance to really cement home the fact that this is a tough team to deal with on the road by winning five in a row away from Foxborough in 2025.

The younger brother of Colts wideout Josh Downs is phenomenal in coverage with elite instincts and tackling ability to boot. I loved Malaki Starks out of Georgia last cycle, and Downs is even better. He'd be a grand slam addition to a defense out in Cincinnati that needs impact players.

I can't imagine that I was the only person with Brock Bowers in fantasy and was happy to see him have the type of game he did, albeit in a losing effort, against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Like Falcons' wideout Drake London, the Raiders tight end put up over 100 yards and three touchdowns in a one-point loss...

There hadn't been an "ugly win" to this point in the season for the New England Patriots, but that's probably the best way to describe their one-point victory over the Atlanta Falcons.

A week after the Patriots trounced the top-flight defense of the Cleveland Browns, they now welcome the final remaining top 10 defense on their schedule tomorrow in the form of the Atlanta Falcons.

Not only would Rashid Shaheed give the Bills a guy who brings something to the table that no other Bills wideout currently can, deep shot ability, he'd also be the outright leading receiver on the team, the second his team-issued keycard lets him into the Bills facilities.

Not a bad day to be a tight end on this past Sunday of all Sundays, and there were a ton of great performances, none, however, better than Green Bay's Tucker Kraft, who went nuclear in Pittsburgh, but guys like rookies Oronde Gadsen and Harold Fannin, vets like George Kittle and Kyle Pitts, and a ton more.

Please do not take this kid and what he's doing this year for granted. Drake Maye is legitimately having one of the best, if not the best, seasons of any QB in the league through eight weeks.

Despite sitting at a 5-2 record with a perfect road record, New England is once again struggling to find that level of success at Gillette Stadium —and, even more than that, touts the NFL's worst home game record since 2023, at 4-15. Their opponent this weekend, the Cleveland Browns, who've yet to win on the road this year and are 4-17 on the road since 2023...

Closing in on the end of October already, NFL Week 7 saw a barrage of elite running back performances out of the likes of Jonathan Taylor, Jahmyr Gibbs, and Christian McCaffery, to name a few, and on the other side of the ball, we saw perhaps the best single-game pass rushing performance out of an interior defender and edge rusher, respectively. Never mind a monumental comeback by the Denver Broncos on Demaryius Thomas Day out in Denver vs. the New York Giants, this week was

More or less, yesterday's Patriots win over the Tennessee Titans went just about according to plan. They settled in after a trio of scoring drives by Cam Ward and co., and cruised on with a 31 point afternoon and now find themselves on their first four game win streak in nearly four years, and as the two seed in the AFC behind Indianapolis. Not only did Drake Maye dazzle once again, but the running game, yes, the running game, was gigantic in this win, with Rhamondre Stevenso

There could not have been a funnier weekend for the Patriots and Mike Vrabel to head down to Nashville and take on the Titans.