NFL Week 4 Workforce of the Week: Puka Nacua Highlights Sunday’s Prime Performers

Every week, we’ll supply up the easiest of the NFL for a given week, sort of just like the fantasy soccer staff you wished you had.

We’ll decide one quarterback, two operating backs, two receivers and a good finish – OK, that is sounding lots like a super-hindsight fantasy soccer staff – as a option to look again on the weekend that was.

We have now a well-known face that stood out at broad receiver, and one other return performer at operating again. Let’s break it down.

QB Patrick Mahomes, Chiefs

Can it actually be 48 video games because the final time Mahomes had 4 or extra landing passes and no interceptions? 

It looks as if there’s an AFC playoff preview each week, and Ravens vs. Chiefs was undoubtedly one. Mahomes confirmed the Chiefs are higher than their file would present, getting them again to 2-2 with 270 yards and landing passes to 4 gamers. 

Mahomes’ 4 landing passes have been greater than his first video games mixed. I am not saying they’re the outdated Chiefs, however they’re nonetheless harmful.

Patrick Mahomes regarded like his outdated self on Sunday in an enormous win over the Ravens. (Michael Owens/Getty Pictures)

RB Ashton Jeanty, Raiders

That is what Las Vegas anticipated when it drafted Jeanty No. 8 general — 138 yards speeding and three complete touchdowns, though all of it got here in an in depth loss to the Bears. 

Jeanty had a 64-yard landing run and caught two quick scoring passes. He had extra complete offense (155 yards) Sunday than in his first three video games mixed, and thrice as many touchdowns. 

If the Raiders can simply get Geno Smith to cease throwing interceptions, they might have a enjoyable staff this season.

RB Bijan Robinson, Falcons

Is Robinson the perfect all-purpose again within the league? He ran for 75 yards and a landing Sunday and had one other 106 yards receiving, giving him 181 yards from scrimmage. 

Robinson is now the NFL chief there with 584 yards in 4 video games, forward of the 49ers’ Christian McCaffrey (530) and on tempo for two,482 yards of complete offense over a 17-game season. The NFL season file is 2,509, set by Chris Johnson in 2009. One thing to observe …

WR Puka Nacua, Rams

It isn’t simply Nacua getting 13 catches for 170 yards and a landing, it is doing that on 15 targets – that is an 87% catch charge, which is wonderful when the opponent is aware of you are getting the ball as usually as does. 

Nacua has had a prolific begin to the season. His 42 catches are 11 greater than some other participant within the league, and his 503 yards are 101 greater than anybody else. That places him on tempo for every kind of record-breaking – 178 catches for two,138 receiving yards. We’ll say he wants multiple landing, however hey, that is one thing to enhance upon.

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WR George Pickens, Cowboys

Pickens has 4 touchdowns in his first 4 video games with Dallas, together with two in Sunday evening’s sport in opposition to Inexperienced Bay to associate with eight catches for 134 yards. It is simply the second multi-touchdown sport of his four-year profession, and the second-most yards he is had. 

Pickens is but to have greater than 5 touchdowns in a season, so that is the sort of manufacturing that the Cowboys have been hoping for once they traded three draft picks to the Steelers. Every rating solely helps his market worth as top-of-the-line free brokers obtainable subsequent spring, when he’ll command $25 million or extra per yr.

TE Dallas Goedert, Eagles

Can two touchdowns get you on the listing if each have been … underhand throws? Goedert had two goal-line scores out of tush push variations – a sideways sling from Jalen Hurts after which a standard shovel go within the Eagles’ 31-23 win over the Bucs. Goedert already has three scores this season, and that matches his most in any season since 2021. 

Honorable point out right here goes to rookie Tyler Warren, who caught 5 passes for 70 yards and someway managed a speeding landing in a cameo as a fullback.

Greg Auman is an NFL Reporter for FOX Sports activities. He beforehand spent a decade masking the Buccaneers for the Tampa Bay Instances and The Athletic. You possibly can observe him on Twitter at @gregauman.

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