AiOdds - The Week 1 Breakdown

We just shipped a way to filter our League Leaders board down to a single week instead of a full season, and within about ten minutes of playing with our own feature we had three genuinely weird stories sitting in front of us. Not vibes, not takes off a highlight reel: real Week 1 numbers, cross-checked against real final scores and our own closing lines. This is the first installment of a series we'll be running every single week this season, same format, same real numbers, whatever the board actually gives us.

The League's Top 3 Passers by Yardage All Lost

Sort Week 1's QB leaderboard by passing yards and the top three names are Tyler Shough (410 yards, 3 TD, 2 INT), Jordan Love (387 yards, 2 TD, 1 INT), and Bryce Young (361 yards, 3 TD, 1 INT). Add it up and that's 1,158 yards and 8 touchdowns between three quarterbacks in one Sunday. All three of their teams lost. New Orleans fell 31-30 to Detroit, Green Bay got run out of the building 39-22 by Minnesota, and Carolina gave up more points than Young even threw for. Padding a stat sheet and padding a win column turned out to be two completely different jobs in Week 1.

Chicago Scored 59 Points and 8 Touchdowns

The team on the other end of Bryce Young's stat line wasn't just winning, it was putting on a clinic. Chicago finished Week 1 leading the entire NFL in both points scored (59) and total touchdowns (8), and did it with a real ground-and-air split, not one gimmick score after another. D'Andre Swift alone put up 124 rushing yards and 3 rushing touchdowns in the same game. Fifty-nine points is the kind of number that usually needs a shootout on both sides to happen. Chicago just did it to somebody.

Kaelon Black Is Genuinely Stealing Touches From Christian McCaffrey

This isn't a hot take, it's the box score: rookie Kaelon Black out-carried Christian McCaffrey on the ground in Week 1, 14 rushing attempts to 10, and finished with the exact same 15 total touches once you add in the passing game. McCaffrey is not flying solo in this backfield anymore: he got to his side of that split almost entirely through the air, catching 5 of 8 targets to Black's 1 target, 1 catch, while the rookie did the early-down dirty work. That's a real workload split in Week 1 for a back who's carried San Francisco on volume alone for years, playing behind a defense that held its own Week 1 opponent to a league-low 7 points in a 27-7 road win. One game doesn't make a trend, but this is exactly the kind of workload shift that's worth checking again after Week 2.

The Week's Biggest Upset, By Our Own Numbers

A Few More Things Worth Knowing

And a small one for the kicking specialists in the room: Evan McPherson went a perfect 4-for-4 on field goals, capped by a 58-yarder, the longest make by any kicker in Week 1.

This is one week of a 17-week season, and every one of these numbers will get noisier or quieter as more games get played, which is exactly why we built the week filter in the first place, instead of only ever showing you a season-long average that hides stuff like this. We'll be back with the Week 2 Breakdown once those games are in the books.

All stats reflect official Week 1 box scores for the 2026 NFL regular season. Odds, moneylines, and win probabilities are the real closing numbers we had synced ahead of kickoff, not numbers reconstructed after the fact. filter the League Leaders board down to any week yourself. Gamble responsibly, 21+ only.