1) Jackson joins elite club with five-TD performance

Lamar Jackson‘s performance in 2024 may not win him his third NFL MVP, but it has added several more mentions of his name to the NFL record books.

In Week 15 against the two-win Giants, Jackson and the Ravens did not hesitate to pile on the points, as the two-time NFL MVP threw five touchdowns and the Ravens walked away from MetLife Stadium with a 35-14 win.

Jackson, who completed 21 of 25 passes for 290 yards, five touchdowns and zero interceptions, had his sixth career game with at least five touchdown passes and zero picks — moving him into the third place for the most such games in an entire career. Only Tom Brady and Drew Brees have more such games in the history of the league (each had eight such games).

The context — Brady was 40 years old when he had his sixth such game and Brees was 34.

Jackson turns 28 next month.

It was also the fifth time in Jackson’s career that he threw at least five touchdown passes and five or fewer incompletions — no one else in NFL history has more than three of those games in their career.

If his performance through the air was not enough, Jackson also added 65 yards on the ground in Week 15, moving his career total up to 6,001 rushing yards. Jackson joined Michael Vick (6,109) as the only quarterbacks in NFL history with 6,000 career rushing yards.