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Slideshow: Touchdown Tommy to the rescue: 7 must-read stats from Week 6 of the NFL

Slide 1: New England quarterback TOM BRADY passed for 257 yards with two touchdowns in the Patriots' 24-17 win at the New York Jets. Brady, who has 187 career regular-season victories, surpassed Pro Football Hall of Famer Brett Favre and Peyton Manning (186) for the most regular-season victories by a starting quarterback in NFL history. Brady has 212 career wins (including the postseason), the most all-time by a starting quarterback.

Slide 2: Houston rookie quarterback DESHAUN WATSON threw three touchdown passes in the Texans' 33-17 win over Cleveland. Watson has thrown at least three touchdown passes in three consecutive games and is the first rookie in NFL history to accomplish the feat. Watson has 12 passing touchdowns in the past three games, the most in league annals by a rookie in any three-game span. This season, Watson has 15 passing touchdowns, the most ever by a rookie in his team's first six games of a season.

Slide 3: Arizona quarterback CARSON PALMER threw three touchdown passes, running back Adrian Peterson rushed for two touchdowns and wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald had a touchdown catch in the Cardinals' 38-33 win against Tampa Bay. Palmer has accounted for 302 career touchdowns (294 passing touchdowns, eight rushing touchdowns), Peterson has 104 career touchdowns (99 rushing, five receiving) and Fitzgerald has 107 career touchdown catches. They are the only QB-RB-WR trio of teammates in NFL history to account for at least 300, 100 and 100 total touchdowns, respectively.

Slide 4: Los Angeles Rams kick returner PHAROH COOPER returned the game's opening kickoff 103 yards for a touchdown and Jacksonville rookie running back Leonard Fournette had a 75-yard touchdown run on the Jaguars' first play from scrimmage in the Rams' 27-17 win, marking the first game in the Super Bowl era with two touchdowns of at least 75 yards in the first 30 seconds of a game.

Slide 5: New Orleans quarterback DREW BREES passed for 186 yards with two touchdowns in the Saints' 52-38 win over Detroit. Brees has 55,084 passing yards with the Saints and is only the fourth quarterback in NFL history to record at least 55,000 passing yards with a team. He joins Pro Football Hall of Famers Brett Favre (61,655 with Green Bay) and Dan Marino (61,361 with Miami) and Tom Brady (63,541 with New England) as the only quarterbacks to accomplish the feat.

Slide 6: Pittsburgh wide receiver ANTONIO BROWN had eight catches for 155 yards, including a 51-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter, in the Steelers' 19-13 win at Kansas City.

Brown, who has 9,077 career receiving yards in 107 career games, tied Randy Moss (107) for the fourth-fewest games played to reach 9,000 career receiving yards in NFL history.

Slide 7: Chicago rookie running back TARIK COHEN threw a 21-yard touchdown pass to tight end Zach Miller in the Bears' 27-24 overtime win at Baltimore. Cohen is the first Bears rookie running back to throw a touchdown pass since Pro Football Hall of Famer Gale Sayers on Oct. 10, 1965 (26 yards to Dick Gordon).

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