5 NFL Stats to Know Through Week 7

Carson Wentz Leads the NFL With 17 Touchdown Passes

With one more game played, Carson Wentz's average of 2.4 touchdowns per game trails only Deshaun Watson, who is averaging 2.5 touchdowns, for a total of 15 in six games. But Wentz has really picked up his pace recently, throwing 11 touchdown passes in his past three games. Only nine quarterbacks have thrown more than 11 touchdown passes all season.

He has already topped his 2016 total of 16 touchdowns in 16 games and is currently on pace for 38.9 touchdowns over a full 16 game season. That would break the Philadelphia Eagles' franchise record of 32 touchdowns set by Sonny Jurgensen in 1961.

Wentz is also throwing less interceptions in his second season, averaging 0.6 interceptions through the first seven games, compared to his rate of 0.8 interceptions per game all of last season.

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. Our Success Rate metric measures the percentage of plays in which the NEP was greater than zero. For more about our in-house metrics, check out our glossary.

Wentz's efficiency has led him to the third best (0.25) Passing NEP per drop back among all quarterbacks with 50 or more drop backs this season. And on the ground, he has already churned out 46 more rushing yards than he had in all of 2016.

Wentz's average of 21.7 fantasy points per game ranks fourth among all players this season. In Week 7, he is our highest-overall projected player, as he will be at home against the San Francisco 49ers, who are allowing the second-most fantasy points per game to opposing QB1s.