NFL Football: Stat Up! Trivia Quiz

Answer: 211

As a point of reference, Brady finally amassed 1,000 career rushing yards in 2018, after he had been in the NFL for nineteen years. If kneeldown yards did not count, Brady would have instead reached this figure in 2014, four years prior! To make matters even more impressive, consider that NFL QBs do not always end every single victorious game in kneeldown formation; sometimes the defense makes a stand to win the game, sometimes the backups are in the game and are doing the kneeling, and sometimes the game is so close that there is simply no room for kneeling.

As such, 211 yards is a pretty wild amount to lose exclusively to the victory formation!

Answer: 33

On November 4th, 2001, Peyton Manning came up to take a snap from his center. Amidst calling for an audible, something which is not known to this day interfered or caused Manning to hesitate, as he gave out two separate commands for a very different audible, then neither play ended up getting run. Manning would play action the ball, then simply ran a sweep on the left side of the line. Neither the Buffalo Bills nor Manning's Colt teammates had any idea to expect him to take off as he did.

The result was Peyton Manning running completely untouched for a 33 yard touchdown.

Answer: Dave Krieg

As a member of the Kansas City Chiefs, Derrick Thomas became quite familiar with John Elway. However, it was poor Dave Krieg who suffered his wrath and was sacked seven whole times. Despite this, Kansas City couldn't get anything going on their own offense and lost the game 17-6. Those may yet have been the most hard earned seventeen points ever however, as any member of the offense had plenty of reason to fear Derrick Thomas on the day.

Answer: Colquitts

The elder Craig Colquitt first broke through for his family in 1978 as a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers. A little over 30 years later, Briton Colquitt won a Super Bowl as a member of the Denver Broncos in 2015. It wouldn't be too much later for the third Colquitt to take home NFL hardware, as Dustin Colquitt would finish the Trinity in 2019 with the Kansas City Chiefs.

Answer: 0%

The reason for this is simple - Gronk never played in a Wild Card game as a Patriot! The teams Gronk found himself on quite literally always secured a first round bye. It wasn't until 2020, nine years into his illustrious career, where Gronk finally partook in a Wild Card game. Only here, he was catching passes from Tom Brady as a Tampa Bay Buccaneer, and not a Patriot.

They went on to win the Super Bowl here too (SB LV, Feb. 2021), so it's fair to say playing on more game than usual hardly slowed Gronk, Brady and the Buccs down.

Answer: Marcus Maye

Granted, it was very much in a garbage time situation; the Jets were up 34-16 and it was the very last play of the entire game, so victory was assured. Even still, with the Broncos basically at the goal line, they looked to score once more to make it 34-22 or 23 instead, for the pride of the game.

Instead, Case Keenum errantly threw a ball right at Marcus Maye, who was basically standing alone in the back of the end zone. Not the fleetest of foot, Maye barely made it out of the end zone but then had a wide open field to take the ball the other way. Maye was devastatingly run down literally a tenth of an inch shy of hitting paydirt, and thus the 34-16 mark fell final.

Answer: 19

19 playoff-qualifying seasons set an NFL record, with six of those seasons advancing to the Super Bowl, which also set a record, and two Vince Lombardis for Shula to call his own.

Shula spent time between the Baltimore Colts and the Miami Dolphins. Because of how the NFL landscape would go on to change, Shula's record may yet "stand in perpetuity", as NFL front offices consistently become far less patient with coaches, to the extent that even just one single down year could lose someone their job. The closest challenger Shula had, Bill Belichick, for as legendary as he was, still did not even really come close to breaking Shula's record, and Belichick is from an older era where, again, teams were more patient with their coaches.

Answer: 5

In the final week of the 1993 season, specifically on January 2nd of 1994, the Packers traveled to Detroit for the last game of the regular season and lost 30-20. One week later, the teams meet at Ford Field again for a Wild Card game. This time, Green Bay came away with the 28-24 win and ended the Lions' season.

As division rivals, the two teams faced off during the regular season of 1994 twice. A week 9 game in Green Bay saw the Packers win a 38-30 affair, and the two teams met again in Detroit just a month later, with the Lions winning a 34-31 nailbiter. Before the calendar could turn over, the Lions traveled to Green Bay on December 31st for a Wild Card game. They would lose a defensive struggle by way of a 16-12 margin.

This was the first time in NFL history that two teams played each other five times over the span of a calendar year.

Answer: Mike Nugent

Nugent wasn't just the Bengals primary source of offense, he also wasn't "just" the Bengals only source of offense: he was the whole entire game's only source of offense! Nugent's five field goals made up the entirety of the first half of scoring, as the Bengals went into their game against the Baltimore Ravens with him leading the way, en route to a 15-0 halftime lead. This lead would not be relinquished, and thankfully Nugent's teammates were able to put some points on the board, as Cincinnati won a 23-16 game to open up their 2014 season.

Chris Boniol, Morten Anderson and Rob Bironas are other kickers who have nailed five field goals in a single half.

Answer: 8

Peterson was extremely consistent, putting in an electrifying 5.6 yards per rush, which was a mark he only beat in 2012 and never again touched in his career. While his follow up season in 2008 was even more impressive, as he was simply used by the Minnesota Vikings even more, his 2007 rookie season was a perfect way for a rookie to announce their presence in the league.