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Inside the Numbers: Darius Slayton-Daniel Jones connection
*Tyrone Tracy’s 129 rushing yards was the highest total ever by a Giants back in his first career start; Andre Brown held the previous record with 113 yards at Carolina on Sept. 20, 2012.
*Tracy averaged 7.2 yards on his 18 carries. It was the highest average by a Giants running back with at least 18 attempts since Saquon Barkley averaged 9.1 yards a carry at Tennessee on Sept. 11, 2022, and the highest by a Giants rookie since Eddie Price averaged 8.7 yards on Dec. 3, 1950, vs. the New York Yanks. Tracy’s 7.2-yard average was the highest by an NFL rookie since Miami’s De’Von Achane averaged 11.3 yards (18 carries for 203 yards) vs. Denver on Sept. 24, 2023.
*Jones completed 23 of 34 passes for 257 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions for a passer rating of 109.6. This was the first time the Giants had a player with a 100+ passer rating, a player with 100+ rushing yards and a player with 100+ receiving yards since Dec. 21, 2014, in St. Louis. In a 37-27 victory against the Rams, Eli Manning had a 148.8 rating, Andre Williams ran for 110 yards, and Odell Beckham, Jr. (148) and Rueben Randle (132) each exceeded 100 receiving yards.
*Jones has three games this season with two touchdown passes, no interceptions and a passer rating of at least 100.0, tying him with Tampa Bay’s Baker Mayfield for the most such games in the NFL this season. Jones has accomplished that feat 10 times in his career. Eli Manning did it 38 times, including a career-high six times in 2009.
*The win in Seattle was Jones’ third game this season with 2+ touchdown passes and no giveaways (interceptions or fumbles). He had three such games in the first five seasons of his career, including two in 2022.
*Jones threw two touchdown passes in a game for the 16th time in his career. He has thrown four scoring passes twice and for five touchdowns once. Jones has never finished a game with three touchdown passes.
*The Giants are 17-16-1 in games Jones starts and is not intercepted and 7-23 when he throws an interception.
*The Giant’ recorded seven sacks in Seattle and lead the NFL with 22 sacks, two more than the Minnesota Vikings. The 22 sacks are the second-most the Giants have ever had through five games, topped only by their 26 sacks in 1985.
*Dexter Lawrence had a career-high 3.0 sacks in Seattle. With 6.0 sacks this season, he is one of three players tied for second in the NFL, a half-sack behind Detroit’s Aidan Hutchinson.
*Lawrence’s 6.0 sacks are the most by a Giants player through five games since Jason Pierre-Paul had 6.5 in 2011.
*Lawrence raised his career total to 27.0 sacks, which places him 13th on the Giants’ official career list (since 1982).
*On Sunday, the Giants’ time of possession was 37:22 time, while the Seahawks held the ball for 22:38. The plus-14:44 time of possession was the Giants’ largest since Nov. 29, 2020, in a victory in Cincinnati. The Giants host the Bengals Sunday night.
*Although he did not play in Seattle, Nabers still leads the NFL with 35 receptions. Garrett Wilson of the Jets is second with 33.
*Robinson is in a four-way tie for third with 32 catches. The Giants are the only team with two players among the top six pass-catchers.
*The 102-yard fumble return by Seattle’s Rayshawn Jenkins is the longest touchdown in the NFL this season and the longest in the league since Jason Pinnock’s 102-yard interception return score in Miami a year ago today.
*Jenkins scored after Eric Gray fumbled at the end of a Giants’ drive in which they ran 16 plays and took 10:01 off the clock. It was the most plays run and time consumed in a Giants possession that did not end with a score since Dec. 6, 2015, when they held the ball for 17 plays and 11:21 against the Jets before Manning was intercepted by Rontez Miles on a fourth down from the 4-yard line.
*The Giants had 34 rushing attempts Sunday (including one kneel-down). This season, NFL teams with at least 30 rushes are 44-10; the Giants are 20-3-1 in such games since the 2020 season.