Some weeks the NFL hands you one big story. This week it handed you four, and they all landed inside about 48 hours of each other.
The Buffalo Bills injury news cycle this week is a little bit of everything at once: DJ Moore missing back-to-back practices with a shoulder issue, a receiver room thinning out, and right in the middle of it, Josh Allen having maybe the signature individual performance of his career. That's the NFL in October. Nothing stays simple for long.
Buffalo Bills Injury News: Josh Allen Solves Overtime While DJ Moore Sits
Allen walked into the Monday night game against the Rams carrying a number that should embarrass a quarterback of his caliber: 0-7 in overtime for his career, playoffs included, the worst mark in NFL history by CBS Sports Research's count. He walked out 37-34 winners at SoFi Stadium, and he did it the way Allen does most things lately: with his legs. Twenty-one carries, 121 yards, a touchdown, his second-highest single-game rushing total ever and a season high. Buffalo moved to 4-1.
That win was also his 100th career victory, which makes him just the fourth quarterback, after Mahomes, Wilson and Brady, to reach triple digits within his ninth season. And buried inside the box score is a stat line that's never happened before: Allen has now rushed for a touchdown in each of Buffalo's first five games this season, the first quarterback in league history to open a year that way. He already owns the single-season rushing touchdown record for a quarterback (15 in 2023, tied with Jalen Hurts) and the career record, which sat at 79 heading into 2026 and climbed to 81 after Week 1.
Meanwhile the Moore absence is the other half of the Bills story this week, a reminder that even a team riding its best quarterback stretch in years is managing bodies, not just box scores. Depth is the quiet current running under every roster in the league right now, and Buffalo's receiver room is feeling it in real time even as the quarterback position carries the offense.
Jordan Love Writes Himself Into Lambeau Lore
Green Bay's 31-7 handling of Chicago at Lambeau Field produced the best statistical day of Jordan Love's career: 367 yards, 25-of-31 passing, two touchdowns, no interceptions, an 80.6 percent completion rate against a division rival. The number that makes it a real piece of franchise history, not just a good Sunday, is who it passed. Lynn Dickey threw for 345 against the Bears at Lambeau back in 1983. Aaron Rodgers topped that in 2021 with 341. Love blew past both.
check the almanac: that Rodgers mark stood for five seasons before Love erased it, a reminder that even a franchise with a Hall of Fame quarterback on its résumé can still be waiting on its best single game against a rival.
| Lambeau passing day vs. Bears | Yards | Season |
|---|---|---|
| Lynn Dickey | 345 | 1983 |
| Aaron Rodgers | 341 | 2021 |
| Jordan Love | 367 | 2026 |
Love's been the subject of plenty of patience-testing conversation in Green Bay since taking over for Rodgers, and a day like this doesn't end the conversation. It does change the tone of it.
The Cardinals Blink First: Marvin Harrison Jr. Headed to Houston
Arizona traded the No. 4 overall pick from the 2024 draft to the Texans this week, sending Marvin Harrison Jr. to Houston for a 2027 second-round pick and a seventh-rounder, with a 2027 sixth going back to Arizona. For a player who came out of Ohio State as one of the most hyped receiver prospects in years, it's a jarring outcome barely two seasons in.
The decline is stark when you put it next to the number. Through 33 games with Arizona, Harrison caught 108 passes for 1,578 yards and 13 touchdowns, a reasonable foundation. In 2026 before the trade, across four games, he had five catches for 85 yards and a single touchdown on 13 targets, numbers that got him inactive before they got him traded.
| Marvin Harrison Jr. | Receptions | Yards | Touchdowns |
|---|---|---|---|
| Career with Cardinals (33 games) | 108 | 1,578 | 13 |
| 2026 before trade (4 games) | 5 | 85 | 1 |
There's a human-interest wrinkle here that makes the trade feel less like a salvage job and more like a reset: Harrison reunites with C.J. Stroud, his quarterback at Ohio State. Whether that chemistry translates to an NFL offense that's already functioning fine without him is the thing to watch, not a guarantee.
Elsewhere Around the League
The Chargers' freefall continues. An 0-5 start, their worst in recent franchise memory, has the front office reportedly weighing aggressive moves before the November 10 trade deadline, with a veteran like Khalil Mack mentioned as someone who could be had in a sell-off. That's a franchise deciding, in real time, whether this season is worth fighting for.
In San Francisco, Deebo Samuel's hamstring injury from Week 5 against Seattle is expected to keep him out multiple games, with Week 9 floated as a realistic return window after the 49ers' Week 8 bye. Samuel had been productive again in his return to San Francisco, 16 catches, 206 yards, three touchdowns through the air plus 78 rushing yards, before the hamstring intervened. Depth at receiver is becoming the league-wide theme of this October, and the 49ers are the latest team living it.
What I'm Watching Next
Buffalo is back in action Sunday at Las Vegas, and the question is simple: does Allen's legs stay this involved in the offense, or was SoFi Stadium a product of a specific game plan against a specific Rams front. Arizona gets the Rams on Sunday as well, its first game post-Harrison, worth watching for how the offense redistributes those targets. And keep an eye on San Francisco's receiver corps as that Week 9 return window for Samuel approaches; a team can only ask so much patience of a passing game before it needs its players back.
Nothing about this stretch of the season is settled. That's what makes the middle of October worth paying attention to in the first place.