From inconceivable comebacks to blowouts, Week 9 provided a little bit little bit of all the pieces.
It began Thursday when Lamar Jackson returned from damage and led the Baltimore Ravens‘ 28-6 rout of the Miami Dolphins with 4 landing passes.
On Sunday, the depth elevated with 9 of 12 video games determined by one possession.
Highlights of the day included a 58-yard landing with 17 seconds left to provide the Chicago Bears a 47-42 win in a wild end. The Pittsburgh Steelers additionally offered drama, profitable by simply seven factors regardless of forcing six Indianapolis Colts turnovers. And the Jacksonville Jaguars edged the Las Vegas Raiders by one level in extra time.
This week’s matchups have been action-packed with standout performances.
However just one participant might be “him.”
Forward of this week’s “Monday Night time Soccer” matchup between the Arizona Cardinals and Dallas Cowboys, it was time to resolve who earned the honour in Week 9.
Listed here are the fan-voted outcomes for ESPN’s NFL Week 9 “Himmy” Award:
Here is how every candidate made his case in Week 9.
ESPN Analysis contributed to this story.
Stats to know: 23-of-26, 273 yards, 1 TD; 6 automobile, 19 yards, 2 TDs
Allen delivered a near-perfect outing of his personal. The reigning MVP set a franchise report for completion proportion (88.5%) and piled up a career-best 149 passing yards to tight ends, concentrating on Dalton Kincaid, Dawson Knox and Jackson Hawes.
It was Allen’s forty seventh profession sport with each a passing landing and a speeding landing, extending his personal NFL report. He now has 72 profession speeding touchdowns, pulling inside three of Cam Newton for probably the most by a quarterback in NFL historical past.
Since 2020 — the primary season Allen and Patrick Mahomes confronted off — the Payments are 5-1 in regular-season video games in opposition to the Kansas City Chiefs. No different staff has greater than three wins over Kansas Metropolis in that span.
Stats to know: 21-of-24, 330 yards, 4 TDs
Darnold was almost excellent in opposition to the Washington Commanders. At halftime, Darnold was 16-for-16 for 282 yards and 4 scores, with rookie huge receiver Tory Horton hauling within the first two and practice-squad elevation huge receiver Cody White including one other because the Seahawks constructed a 31-7 lead.
The numbers solely obtained extra absurd from there.
Darnold completed with a QBR of 97.8, the very best single-game mark of his profession. There have been 4 cases of a participant posting a QBR of 97 or greater this season, and Darnold owns three of them. His three video games with no less than a 97 QBR are tied for probably the most by a beginning quarterback in a single season since ESPN started monitoring the metric in 2006, matching Tom Brady (2007), Tony Romo (2014) and Lamar Jackson (2019).
The Seahawk additionally turned the primary participant within the play-by-play period (since 1978) to throw for no less than 250 yards with zero incompletions in any half.
Stats to know: 12 rec, 127 yards, 3 TDs
Bowers retains rewriting the report books. The Raiders tight finish prolonged his streak of video games with no less than two receptions to 22, the longest such run to begin a profession by a good finish, passing Sam LaPorta‘s mark set in 2023 with the Detroit Lions. He additionally turned the primary tight finish with no less than 125 receiving yards and three receiving touchdowns in a sport since Rob Gronkowski in 2014 with the New England Patriots.
Bowers made historical past because the Raiders’ first tight finish with three touchdowns and no less than 125 receiving yards in a sport since Todd Christensen in 1983 in opposition to the then-San Diego Chargers.
Bowers now has 1,546 receiving yards in 22 profession video games — the fewest video games wanted by any tight finish to succeed in 1,500 receiving yards for the reason that 1970 AFL/NFL merger.
Stats to know: 25 automobile, 130 yards, 2 TDs
Dowdle was instrumental in Carolina’s 16-13 win over Green Bay on Sunday that lifted the Panthers above .500 and snapped the Packers’ three-game win streak. His second rating gave the Panthers a 13-6 lead late within the third quarter, prompting a two-pelvic-thrust celebration — a nod to the Hingle McCringleberry character from a “Key & Peele” sketch — that drew an unsportsmanlike conduct flag but additionally caught the attention of the show’s co-creator Keegan-Michael Key.
Dowdle’s greatest play got here within the closing minute, when his lengthy 19-yard run arrange Ryan Fitzgerald‘s 49-yard game-winning subject objective. Since making his first begin of the season in Week 5, Dowdle has rushed for an NFL-best 633 yards, with the Panthers going 4-1 in that span.
