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5 NFL Stats to Know Through Week 3

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Tom Brady Leads the NFL With 364 Passing Yards per Game

Tom Brady passed for just 267 yards and no touchdowns in the Patriots' Week 1 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. That was the 11th-most passing yards of any quarterback in the opening week, but his 10.68 fantasy points ranked 19th at the position.

In the two games since that loss, he has thrown eight touchdown passes while leading the league in both passing yards and fantasy points on both occasions. No other quarterback has thrown for more than six touchdowns all season and only four have put up more yards through the air all season than Brady's past two games alone.

He also hasn't thrown a single interception, accomplishing something once again that only himself and Peyton Manning have done before.


Here at numberFire, we have a metric called Net Expected Points (NEP) that compares every single play over a season to how a league-average team should perform on that play. For more about NEP, check out our glossary.

Brady's 0.38 Passing NEP per drop back ranks third among all starting quarterbacks, trailing only Sam Bradford (0.72) and Jared Goff (0.48), who are averaging 18 and 91.7 fewer passing yards per game than the New England signal caller.

His single-season career high for passing yards per game is 327.2, which he set in 2011, and he hasn't averaged more than 300 yards per game since the 2012 season. If he maintains this pace of the next 13 games, it would be the first time he's led the league in this category since 2007.

Brady will face off against the Carolina Panthers in Week 4, who are giving up the third-fewest passing yards per game (168.3) of any team this season.