Week 6 shook up the league with big upsets and some monster plays. Below we'll look at some of the top plays from Week 6 as if we are in the film room. Enter All-22, an exclusive NFL Pro feature that allows its subscribers to watch film like the pros do. Sign up for NFL+ Premium to gain access.
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Atlanta's offensive line has been an iron curtain all season long, and this play is no exception. With help from the OL, Bijan Robinson slips through the A-gap and past the Bills' front seven practically unscathed. The Buffalo defense allows a league-low 32.5% of rushes between the tackles, meaning it's very good at stopping this exact type of play. The Falcons' offensive line, however, pulled up and said, "not today," and Robinson, who's having a monster year, took advantage of the moment with the longest run (and touchdown) of his career.
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Behind just about every elite fantasy running back -- or technically, in front of them -- is a strong offensive line. Robinson's was so good on this play, that he was a full 30 yards down the field before first contact. As a result, he was able to build up enough speed (20.17 mph to be exact) to torch Cole Bishop's approach angle, then easily shed his attempted tackle. From there, it was a casual stroll down the sideline for a 14.1-point fantasy play early in the game.
Perhaps the craziest part is that if you remove this play entirely, Robinson still scored 21.7 fantasy points in Week 6. He hasn't scored fewer than 16 fantasy points in any single game this year and is the RB1 overall in points per game. It's hard to argue there's a better all-around player in fantasy, and he might now be a front-runner for Offensive Player of the Year.
George Pickens strikes again! Dak Prescott did a good job at dropping the ball where he needed to, but Pickens really shined here. He covered 58.03 yards on an in-breaking route with cornerback Jaycee Horn hot on his heels (committing a defensive holding penalty against him, no less). Horn's attempt at deflecting Prescott's perfect pass fails -- he ends up eating turf -- and Pickens turned and burned. Carolina's free safety dropped into coverage, and Pickens hurdled him like he had springs in his cleats. In fact, I'm not sure we will see a cleaner hurdle this season than the one we saw from Pickens on Sunday. That extra effort earned Dallas an extra 12 yards and put the Cowboys inside the 10-yard line.
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The silver (and blue) lining in CeeDee Lamb's absence this past month has been the breakout connection between Prescott and Pickens. Only three QB-WR duos have hooked up for more fantasy points so far this season: Sam Darnold and Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Matthew Stafford and Puka Nacua, and Jared Goff and Amon-Ra St. Brown. Prescott has logged a 134.1 passer rating and a +10.0% completion rate over expected when targeting Pickens.
Also, while you might think of the big-bodied receiver as merely a jump-ball specialist, he's logged 173 yards after catch, with +79 YAC over expectation (second-most among wide receivers behind DK Metcalf). Among the 30 players with 40+ targets this year, Pickens' 2.5 fantasy points per target is the top of the table. His target share may drop a little upon Lamb's return, but the Cowboys' offense is absolutely humming -- and their defense is not -- so he should remain a strong fantasy asset the remainder of the season.
The Bucs are down their two veteran receivers (Mike Evans and Chris Godwin) their star rookie (Emeka Egbuka) and their RB1 (Bucky Irving) and still are able to execute at such a high level. First-year Oregon product Tez Johnson steps up majorly here -- he tops 20mph on a go route right past the Niners' Cover 3 defense -- and Baker Mayfield leads him right into the paint, which is par for the course at this point. Every week, Tampa Bay proves that it is the team to beat in the NFC.
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Roughly 2.4 seconds into this play, Johnson threw his arm up knowing he had a 45-yard touchdown, and less than a second later, Mayfield locked on for the launch. The ensuing pass traveled 48.6 yards of air distance and arrived when Johnson still had 3.4 yards of separation from the nearest defender. Incredibly, Johnson snagged the ball while leaping at 19.74 miles per hour before tumbling into the end zone for the score.
The biggest takeaway from this play and the last few weeks in general: Mayfield is locked in. He's maintained an elite touchdown rate (6.2%) and yards per attempt (7.9) despite a slew of injuries to his receivers, and he's massively improved his interception rate from 2.8% last year (resulting in a league-high 16 picks) to just 0.5% this year. Mayfield is the first QB since Patrick Mahomes in 2020 to throw 12+ touchdowns and one or fewer INTs through the first six weeks of a season. He's encroaching on Mahomes and Josh Allen in the 2025 MVP race and is the fantasy QB3 behind just those two guys. Especially when (or if) he gets Evans, Godwin and Egbuka all healthy at once, Mayfield will be awfully hard to stop.
There is a lot to love about this play. Let's start with Jaxson Dart. His scramble at the beginning of this play, against the Eagles' pass rush no less, looked reminiscent of Patrick Mahomes. When the pocket collapsed and the play began to unravel, Dart kept it going -- that's the Mahomes way. He sends a dart (no pun intended) toward Wan'Dale Robinson on an out route, who then out-maneuvers and out-hustles the Eagles secondary with the help of some downfield blockers. There is a lot of football left to play, but the Giants are slowly emerging as a gritty team that you can't count out.
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The New York Giants are fun. No if's, and's or but's about it. And Dart is at the center of that fun. On this play, he scrambled for 16.2 yards, bought 6.02 seconds before releasing the pass and threw it 28 yards in the air while running 12.85 miles per hour. And while Robinson technically had 3.7 yards of separation from the nearest defender when the pass arrived -- just 2.3 yards from the sideline -- he had Andrew Mukuba draped on him by the time he actually secured the catch. Fortunately, Robinson has 172 yards after the catch this year, which is top 10 among wide receivers, and he flashed the reasons why on this touchdown.
With Malik Nabers done for the year, Dart is going to need Robinson to produce through the air, and Robinson will need Dart to continue improving as a passer to be relevant for fantasy. But with connections like this -- and the five others the duo made on Thursday night -- that dream could quickly become reality. Both should be rostered in your league … though both are questionable plays against the Broncos defense next Sunday.
