The Patriots clinched the AFC East with a win over the Dolphins in Week 15, marking the 12th AFC East title for Bill Belichick and Tom Brady. Twelve division titles are the most by any coach/QB tandem since 1970, 5 more than the next coach/QB tandem on the list, Chuck Noll and Terry Bradshaw.

Colin Kaepernick's 18 straight games without a 4th quarter TD pass is the longest active such streak in NFL. QBs with more 4th quarter TD passes this season include Brandon Weeden (2), Jimmy Garoppolo (1) and Matt McGloin (1).

Delanie Walker is the only tight end in NFL with 140+ receiving yards in 2 games this season. Some of the big-name TEs who haven't had 1 such game this season: Jimmy Graham, Greg Olsen, Martellus Bennett, Julius Thomas and Antonio Gates.

Kansas City is the only team in NFL without a TD catch from a wide receiver this season. Despite this, they score a TD on 67.5 pct of their Red Zone drives, the 2nd highest percentage in the NFL. Since 1940, the most consecutive games without a rec TD by a WR is 20, by the 1958-59 Redskins. The 1964 New York Giants went the entire (14-game) season without a receiving TD by a WR.

With 110 receptions, KC's WRs (Dwayne Bowe, Donnie Avery, Junior Hemingway, A.J. Jenkins, Albert Wilson, Frankie Hammond Jr. and Jason Avant) have 5 fewer catches than Antonio Brown, whose 1,498 receiving yards are 128 yards more than KC's WRs. Brown's 11 TDs are 11 more than the KC WRs.

Drew Brees would need to average 321.0 YPG to get to 5,000 yards passing. Brees already has four of the eight 5,000-yard seasons in NFL history and is the only player with multiple 5,000-yard passing seasons.

Since 1995, Richard Sherman has the lowest opposing passer rating among cornerbacks (min 200 targets) at 39.2, besting Deion Sander's rating of 42.3.

In five games covering Larry Fitzgerald, Richard Sherman has been targeted 17 times. Fitzgerald has caught five of those passes for 87 yards and zero TDs. Sherman has intercepted two of those passes, allowing an opponent passer rating of 8.8 to Arizona QBs when covering Fitzgerald.

Johnny Manziel is in some Hall of Fame company; among the group of QBs in NFL history whose teams were shut out in their first career starts are Bob Griese (1967 Dolphins) and Troy Aikman (1989 Cowboys).

Jim Caldwell is the first head coach in Lions franchise history with 10-plus wins in his first season since Potsy Clark went 11-3 with the Portsmouth Spartans in 1931. Caldwell's 10 wins equal the number of wins that the last three Lions head coaches had in their first season with the team: Jim Schwartz (2-14 in 2009), Rod Marinelli (3-13 in 2006) and Steve Mariucci (5- 11 in 2003).

Caldwell holds the record for the longest winning streak for a rookie head coach from his time in Indianapolis. His 2009 Colts went 14-0 before finishing 14-2 and going to Super Bowl XLIV.

Elvis Dumervil (17.0) and Terrell Suggs (11.0) have combined for the most sacks among any duo in the NFL. Their 28.0 sacks are 4.5 ahead of the Eagles' Connor Barwin (14.5) and Vinny Curry (9).

Peyton Manning is 22-1 (.957) vs. the AFC North, which is the best record of any QB in NFL history vs. that division (minimum of 10 starts). It might not surprise readers to learn that Tom Brady ranks third on this list (19-5, .792), just ahead of Ben Roethlisberger (42-14, .750). Who ranks second? That would be Jay Cutler (8-2, .800).