Interesting, Surprising and Weird NFL Stats

Passing:
- Brett Favre leads the NFL in INTs
- Peyton Manning has thrown more passes than Donovan McNabb
- Chad Pennington is the 5th highest rated QB in the NFL
- New England's O-Line has allowed Matt Cassel to be sacked more than any QB in the league (42). Last year Tom Brady was sacked 21 times.
- Jay Cutler and Kerry Collins have only been sacked 7 times this year
- Matt Hasselbeck has thrown 5 TDs all season. His QB rating is 57.8
- In 436 pass attempts, David Garrard has failed to complete a pass longer than 35 yards
- The highest rated QB in the NFL is Troy Smith (158.3)

Rushing:
- Adrian Peterson leads all RBs with 7 fumbles... Tomlinson, Jamal Lewis, LenDale White, DeAngelo Williams and Willie Parker have 0 combined fumbles in over 1,000 combined carries
- In Week 4, Montell Owens, a backup RB for the Jacksonville Jaguars, broke through Houston's defense and scored a 41-yard Touchdown. The Coaching Staff was so impressed that they haven't handed him the ball since (he has dressed for all 13 games)
- Joseph Addai's longest run of the year is 23 yards.
- Steve Slaton has more rushing yards than Frank Gore, Brandon Jacobs and LaDanian Tomlinson.
- Julius Jones and Maurice Morris, Seattle's two leading rushers, have 2 combined rushing TDs... who the heck is scoring for Seattle???
- No QB has more than David Garrard's 231 rushing yards... Aaron Rodgers leads the NFC in scrambling
- LenDale White ran a 4.64 at his combine, but has the longest run in the NFL this year (80 yards)

Receiving:
- Roddy White leads the NFL in Receiving Yards
- 90.6% of Vincent Jackson's catches have resulted in First Downs
- Kevin Walter has more receiving yards than Terrell Owens and Randy Moss
- Antonio Bryant has more receiving yards than Marques Colston and Santonio Holmes
- Lance Moore has as many TDs as Randy Moss (8)
- No Jets receiver averages more than 12 yards per catch
- Jeremy Shockey has 0 TDs this year
- TE Tony Sheffler averages more yards per catch than teammate Brandon Marshall

Defense:
- Trent Cole leads all DL in tackles
- No rookie has more than 4 sacks, only 4 rookies have more than 2... only 13 have sacks at all
- Nick Collins has returned 3 of his 5 INTs for Touchdowns
- Cleveland LB D'Qwell Jackson leads the NFL in tackles by 13 (130)
- Since 2002, only 3 DTs have had more sacks than Albert Haynesworth and Kevin Williams' 8.5 this year (Rod Coleman, Warren Sapp, Darnell Dockett)
- In 2000, DT LaRoi Glover had 17 sacks
- Quentin Jammer has more tackles than Brian Urlacher
- Haloti Ngata has as many INTs as Nmandi Asumogha and Carlos Rogers combined, both of which have had Pro Bowl Seasons

Special Teams:
- Devin Hester has 0 Return TDs this season... his average of 21.9 yards per KOR is 60th in the NFL. His average of 6.2 yards per PR is 39th
- Antonio Cromartie has three Kick Off Returns this season, on two of which he fumbled
- 5 different players have called Fair Catches on Kick Offs... o...kay...?
- Only 9 teams have had punts blocked by opponents...Carolina has let it happen 3 times
- San Fransisco's Andy Lee has an 82-yard punt this year
- Minnesota has allowed 4 Punt Return TDs
- Nick Folk of the Cowboys has kicked 4 Kick-Offs out of bounds,,,
- Dallas FS Patrick Watkins has one kick-off attempt... it went 61 yards! someone explain that one to me
- Lions' Kicker Jason Hanson is 7-for-7 from beyond 50 yards. Jason Hanson is 20-for-21 on Extra Points
- St. Louis and Cincinnati have only attempted 13 Extra Points all season

Other:
- Raiders' LT Kwame Harris has jumped offsides 15 times this season (in only 11 games)
- The Raiders' starting LT is still Kwame Harris
- Kurt Warner is the third most penalized player in the NFL... and the only QB in the top 20... get to that line quicker old man!
- Ike Taylor has only been penalized 4 times this year, but has more penalty yards against him than any player in the league... His pass interference penalties have averaged 24 yards per penalty!
- Joe Flacco has fumbled 9 times, but only 1 resulted in a turnover
- Other than their loss to New York, Tennessee has only allowed opponents to score over 20 points ONCE, and that was 21 points to Indy in Week 11
- Pittsburgh hasn't given up more than 24 points all season
- 8 of Detroit's opponents have scored more than 30 points on them... Detroit has allowed less than 20 points only once (Week 6@Minnesota)
- Detroit gives up 173 rushing yards per game