Week 13 NFL Preview & Capsules

NEW YORK — Nov. 26, 2024 — Since 2006, the NFL has scheduled three Thanksgiving Day games each year, and this year, the league will continue to honor and commemorate the late John Madden with the third annual John Madden Thanksgiving Celebration on Thursday, Nov. 28. For the second-consecutive season, the NFL will follow the Thanksgiving triple-header with a Black Friday game (Nov. 29) on Prime Video.

For the Week 13 capsules, click here.

For the Week 13 playoff scenarios, click here.

For Thanksgiving records, click here.

For more information on the John Madden Thanksgiving celebration, click here.

Here’s a look at a few interesting storylines entering Week 13:

• Chicago (4-7) at Detroit (10-1) (Thanksgiving, 12:30 p.m. ET, CBS): Detroit will play its 85th Thanksgiving Day game (37-45-2) dating back to 1934, while Chicago will play on Thanksgiving for the 38th time (20-15-2). The Bears have won three consecutive Thanksgiving games over the Lions (2018-19 and 2021) while Detroit is looking for its first Thanksgiving win since 2016.
  • Detroit is the fourth team since 2000 to enter a Thanksgiving game with at least 10 wins, joining the 2015 Carolina Panthers (10-0), 2011 Green Bay Packers (10-0) and 2008 Tennessee Titans (10-1).
  • The Lions, who tied a franchise record with 12 wins last year, have won at least 10 games in consecutive seasons for the first time in franchise history. Including the postseason, Detroit has rushed for a touchdown in 25 consecutive games, the longest such streak in NFL history.
  • Detroit quarterback Jared Goff has six touchdowns and no interceptions in his first three Thanksgiving games and can join Pro Football Hall of Famer Brett Favre as the only players ever with multiple touchdown passes in each of his first four games on the holiday.
  • Lions running backs David Montgomery, with 11 rushing touchdowns this season and 13 rushing touchdowns last season, and Jahmyr Gibbs, with 10 rushing touchdowns in 2024 and 10 rushing touchdowns as a rookie in 2023, are the first pair of running back teammates each with at least 10 rushing touchdowns in consecutive seasons in NFL history.
    
• N.Y. Giants (2-9) at Dallas (4-7) (Thanksgiving, 4:30 p.m. ET, FOX): Dallas will play its 57th Thanksgiving Day game (33-22-1) since 1966 while the New York Giants will play on the holiday for the 17th time (7-6-3). The Cowboys defeated the Giants, 28-20, on Thanksgiving in 2022, as Ezekiel Elliott rushed for 92 yards and a touchdown, CeeDee Lamb had 106 receiving yards and Micah Parsons recorded two sacks.
  • Lamb had his 12th career game with at least 10 receptions last week, tied with Brandon Marshall (12 games) for the second-most such games by a player in his first five seasons in NFL history. Only Michael Thomas (18 games) has more.
  • Parsons recorded his 13th career game with at least two sacks in Week 12 and tied Elvis Dumervil (13 games), Tim Harris (13) and Aldon Smith (13) for the fifth-most such games by a player in his first four seasons since 1982, when the individual sack became an official statistic. Only Pro Football Hall of Famers Reggie White (22 games) and Richard Dent (16) as well as J.J. Watt (15) and Simeon Rice (14) have more.
  • Parsons has a sack in each of his first three Thanksgiving games and can become the fifth player since 1982 with a sack in four consecutive Thanksgiving appearances, joining Greg Ellis (2004-08), Ed “Too Tall” Jones (1982-85), Tony Tolbert (1990-93) and Pro Football Hall of Famer Randy White (1982-85). He can also join White as the only players since 1982 with at least 1.5 sacks in three Thanksgiving games.

• Miami (5-6) at Green Bay (8-3) (Thanksgiving, 8:20 p.m. ET, NBC): Green Bay will play on Thanksgiving for the second-consecutive season and 38th time overall (15-20-2), while Miami will be featured on the holiday for the eighth time (5-2) and first since 2011. The Dolphins defeated the New York Jets, 34-13, in the first-ever Black Friday game last season.
  • During the Dolphins current three-game winning streak, quarterback Tua Tagovailoa has 812 passing yards – the most among AFC quarterbacks in the past three weeks – along with eight touchdown passes and one interception for a 117.9 rating.
  • Packers quarterback Jordan Love passed for three touchdowns with a 125.5 rating, while linebacker Rashan Gary recorded three sacks in the team’s 29-22 Thanksgiving win last season against Detroit. This year, Love can become the sixth quarterback ever with at least three touchdown passes in consecutive Thanksgiving appearances and the first since Tom Brady (2010 and 2012).
  • Green Bay running back Josh Jacobs has 944 rushing yards and seven rushing touchdowns this season and became the fourth player since 2000 with at least 800 rushing yards and six rushing touchdowns in each of his first six career seasons, joining Ezekiel Elliott, Adrian Peterson and Pro Football Hall of Famer LaDainian Tomlinson.
    
• Las Vegas (2-9) at Kansas City (10-1) (Black Friday, 3 p.m. ET, Prime Video): Kansas City head coach Andy Reid became the third coach all-time with 19 seasons with 10-or-more wins, joining Bill Belichick (20 seasons with 10-or-more wins) and Pro Football Hall of Famer Don Shula (20).
  • Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes recorded his 99th win (including the postseason) as a starting quarterback last week and with his next victory, can tie Tom Brady (100 wins) for the most wins, including the postseason, by a starting quarterback in his first eight seasons in NFL history.
  • Mahomes has 73 career games with at least two touchdown passes and surpassed Pro Football Hall of Famer Dan Marino (72 games) and Russell Wilson (72) for the second-most such games by a player in his first eight seasons in NFL history. Only Pro Football Hall of Famer Peyton Manning (74 games) has more.
  • Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce has 11,897 regular-season receiving yards and surpassed Antonio Gates (11,841 receiving yards) for the third-most regular-season receiving yards by a tight end all-time. Only Pro Football Hall of Famer Tony Gonzalez (15,127 receiving yards) and Jason Witten (13,046) have more.
  • Las Vegas rookie tight end Brock Bowers has 74 receptions this season – the most by a Raiders rookie all-time, tied with Jeremy Shockey (74 receptions in 2002 with the New York Giants) for the third-most receptions by a rookie tight end in NFL history. Only Sam LaPorta (86 receptions in 2023 with Detroit) and Keith Jackson (81 in 1988 with Philadelphia) have more.
    
• Philadelphia (9-2) at Baltimore (8-4) (Sunday, 4:25 p.m. ET, CBS): The Eagles have won seven consecutive games, the second-longest active winning streak in the NFL, and last week, became the second team in NFL history with at least 150 rushing yards and multiple rushing touchdowns in six consecutive games, joining the 1949 Philadelphia Eagles.
  • Baltimore leads the NFL with 2,162 rushing yards (in 12 games, 180.2 per game) this season while Philadelphia ranks second with 2,127 rushing yards (in 11 games, 193.4 per game). Sunday’s matchup will mark the first time that the top two rushing offenses will meet in Week 13 or later of a season since Week 15, 2016 (also Philadelphia at Baltimore).
  • Philadelphia running back Saquon Barkley registered a career-high 302 scrimmage yards in Week 12 – the ninth-most in a game in NFL history – and 198 scrimmage yards in Week 11, becoming the third player in NFL history with 500 scrimmage yards in a two-game span, along with Pro Football Hall of Famers Walter Payton (1977) and Ollie Matson (1954).
  • Included in his career-high and franchise-record 255 rushing yards last week, Barkley became the sixth player in NFL history to record multiple rushing touchdowns of 70-or-more yards in a game, joining Pro Football Hall of Famers Lenny Moore (1956) and Barry Sanders (1997) as well as John Fuqua (1970), Frank Gore (2009) and Maurice Jones-Drew (2009).
  • Barkley leads the NFL with 1,649 scrimmage yards this season, the second-most scrimmage yards by a player in his first 11 games with a team in NFL history, trailing only Pro Football Hall of Famer Eric Dickerson (1,726 scrimmage yards with the Los Angeles Rams).
  • With Barkley and Baltimore’s Derrick Henry (1,421 scrimmage yards, second-most in the NFL), it will mark the first meeting between the top two leaders in scrimmage yards in Week 13 or later of a season since Week 14, 2009 (Tennessee’s Chris Johnson and the St. Louis Rams’ Steven Jackson).
  • With Barkley (1,392 rushing yards, most in the NFL) and Henry (1,325 rushing yards, second-most), it will mark the first meeting between players each with at least 1,300 rushing yards in a season since Week 16, 2012 (Minnesota’s Adrian Peterson and Houston’s Arian Foster).
  • Baltimore quarterback Lamar Jackson leads the NFL with 3,053 passing yards and leads all quarterbacks with 599 rushing yards this season. Jackson and Philadelphia’s Jalen Hurts are two of the six quarterbacks in NFL history with three career seasons with at least 3,000 passing yards and 500 rushing yards, along with Cam Newton (six seasons), Russell Wilson (five), Josh Allen (four) and Randall Cunningham (three).
  • Jackson leads the league with a 117.9 passer rating and is the first player since 2020 (Patrick Mahomes and Aaron Rodgers) with at least 3,000 passing yards and a passer rating of 115-or-higher entering Week 13.
• Bounce back teams: Seven teams that missed the postseason last year – Denver (7-5) and the Los Angeles Chargers (7-4) in the AFC, and Arizona (6-5), Atlanta (6-5), Minnesota (9-2), Seattle (6-5) and Washington (7-5) in the NFC – have a winning record.
  
  • Los Angeles Chargers (7-4) at Atlanta (6-5) (Sunday, 1 p.m. ET, CBS): Since entering the NFL in 2020, Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert has 19,627 passing yards and can surpass Jameis Winston (19,737 passing yards) for the second-most passing yards by a player in his first five seasons in NFL history. Only Pro Football Hall of Famer Peyton Manning (20,618 passing yards) has more.
    • Falcons running back Bijan Robinson ranks fifth in the NFL with 1,142 scrimmage yards this season and has seven games with at least 100 scrimmage yards, tied for the second-most in the league this season. Robinson has 103 receptions and 2,605 scrimmage yards since entering the NFL last season and is the first running back under the age of 23 since Saquon Barkley with at least 100 receptions and 2,500 scrimmage yards.
      
  • Arizona (6-5) at Minnesota (9-2) (Sunday, 1 p.m. ET, FOX): Cardinals tight end Trey McBride ranks second among tight ends in receiving yards (685) and third in receptions (61) this season and can join Travis Kelce (10 consecutive road games from 2019-20) as the only tight ends in NFL history with five-or-more receptions in 10 consecutive road games
    • Vikings wide receiver Justin Jefferson ranks second in the NFL with 939 receiving yards in 2024 and can become the fourth player in NFL history with at least 1,000 receiving yards in each of his first five career seasons, joining Mike Evans, A.J. Green and Pro Football Hall of Famer Randy Moss.
       
  • Seattle (6-5) at New York Jets (3-8) (Sunday, 1 p.m. ET, FOX): Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald is the only first-time head coach and one of four head coaches in his first year with a team – along with Atlanta’s Raheem Morris, the Los Angeles Chargers’ Jim Harbaugh and Washington’s Dan Quinn – to have a winning record in 2024. In seven consecutive seasons (2017-23), a first-time head coach has led his team to the postseason in his first season with a club. 
    
  • Tennessee (3-8) at Washington (7-5) (Sunday, 1 p.m. ET, CBS): Commanders rookie quarterback Jayden Daniels has 2,613 passing yards and 556 rushing yards this season and became the fourth rookie quarterback in NFL history with at least 2,500 passing yards and 500 rushing yards, joining Robert Griffin III (2012), Kyler Murray (2019) and Cam Newton (2011). 
    
  • Cleveland (3-8) at Denver (7-5) (Monday night, 8:15 p.m. ET, ESPN/ABC): Broncos rookie quarterback Bo Nix has eight touchdown passes with no interceptions for a 118.6 rating in his past three starts and joined Dak Prescott (Weeks 9-11, 2016) are the only rookie quarterbacks in NFL history with eight-or-more touchdown passes and zero interceptions in a three-game span.

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