Despite 33 seasons of combined NFL experience between them, Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady have met only once as starters prior to this week. That puts them among other notable, infrequent QB matchups like Joe Montana vs. Dan Marino (once), John Elway vs. Dan Marino (twice), and Brett Favre vs. Peyton Manning (twice). Rodgers won the lone head-to-head meeting between the two future Hall of Famers in Week 13, 2014.

The Vikings may be on the outside looking in in the NFC playoff picture at the moment, but history is on their side. Adam Thielen (925 receiving yards) and Stefon Diggs (587 receiving yards) are the NFL's top receiving duo. The NFL's top receiving duo has made the playoffs and reached at least the divisional round in six of the last seven seasons.

Through eight games, Todd Gurley is averaging 143.9 scrimmage YPG, 26.14 fantasy points per game and has 15 touchdowns. The most fantasy points scored in a single season in NFL history is 425.10 by the NFL Network's LaDainian Tomlinson in 2006. Through his first eight games that season, LT was averaging 143.9 scrimmage YPG, 25.14 fantasy PPG and had 14 touchdowns.

James Conner ranks second in the NFL this season with 9 rushing touchdowns. That matches Hall of Famer Franco Harris (1976 season) for the most rush TD by a Steelers player in the first seven games of a season in team history and also matches Le'Veon Bell's career high for an entire season (9 rush TD in 2017).

This is the first game in NFL history in Week 9 or later featuring two teams each averaging 33+ points per game. The latest two teams averaging 33+ PPG had met in a season prior to this matchup? Week 6 (2007), when Tom Brady and the Patriots defeated Tony Romo and the Cowboys, 48-27.

Patrick Mahomes has five games this season with 4+ passing touchdowns, the most in the first half of a season by any player in the Super Bowl era. Since returning to the NFL in 1999, the Browns have four individual 4+ pass TD games from all their QBs combined.

Adam Thielen leads the NFL catching a remarkable 76.9 percent of his targets 10 or more yards downfield. He has 5 touchdowns on such receptions and has generated a 157.9 passer rating on such attempts, which also leads the NFL.

Philip Rivers has thrown 6 TD and 0 INT for a 127.1 passer rating on deep passes (20+ air yards). That's the fifth-highest deep passer rating this season, but the Seahawks allow the third-lowest passer rating on deep passes this season (61.9). They have only allowed 3 deep TD passes this season, but two of them came vs Matthew Stafford and the Lions in Week 8.

If active this week, new Texans wide receiver Demaryius Thomas will be the first player since cornerback Darrelle Revis in 2013 to start at least 75 games with one team, be traded, and then face his former team in his first game after being traded.