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With one-third of the professional football season finished, teams are demonstrating their true colours

Tampa Bay and Indianapolis emerged as the pioneering teams to reach five victories as they persisted with their impressive starts to the season

The Seahawks and New England are developing as contenders, while Pittsburgh are seeming established in the American Football Conference North

This campaign looks over now for a major preseason title game top picks Baltimore, but could only be beginning for The Chiefs

The Buccaneers quarterback Gets Most Valuable Player Calls

Would Baker Mayfield in the running for top honors? That's what Tampa Bay Buccaneers fans were chanting after one more all-action performance from their field general in a 30-19 victory against the San Francisco

Mayfield is the main reason the Tampa Bay are 5-1 and he directed from the front again, throwing a pair of TDs and executing all the big plays - featuring an amazing third and long rush when he bulled through multiple defenders to secure a essential new set of downs

He possesses a knack that isn't coachable or instructed

Mayfield's clutch actions had resulted in every one of the four previous wins happening in the last minute - the more definitive way on Sunday further boosted his growing MVP arguments

Daniel Jones is a comparable redemption story in for Indianapolis following the Colts defeated the The Cardinals to go to five victories - their finest opening after nine years ago

Ball carrier the Colts RB is the other key player of the the team's unexpected beginning, but Daniel Jones makes big plays at the appropriate juncture - achieving two passing touchdowns and an additional running this past Sunday

Certainly About It - the Pats Are Competitive Again

Occupying the position of a Patriots quarterback includes a particular pressure thanks to the legendary quarterback, but in Drake Maye they could finally have their next franchise quarterback

In just his sophomore year, the quarterback looks composed in the passing area and is not scared to launch the pigskin long - passing touchdowns of various distances and witnessing a 61-yard pass nullified by a violation in the recent victory at the New Orleans Saints

He is only the fourth QB under 24 to record five in a row contests with over 200 throwing yards and a passer rating of 100 or higher

The previous duo including a primetime success in against the Bills and subsequently, in the intense sound of the New Orleans stadium, demonstrate the reason New England supporters are growing enthusiastic that - guided by new coach the new coach - they may be a force once more

Seattle matched the New England on four wins as they won their ninth straight visiting game - an remarkable twenty to twelve success at the The Jaguars

Darnold is demonstrating the prior campaign's comeback in Minnesota was genuine and he has one of the best pass catchers in the game in Jaxon Smith-Njigba, who made eight different receptions for 163 yards and a touchdown in the Sunshine State

Pittsburgh's Play-off Path Becomes Clear

Pittsburgh advanced to 4-1 with a 22nd successive home victory over the Cleveland in the NFL season - and they seem to have an clear path to the play-offs now in a weakened AFC North

Normally a particularly challenging sections in the league but Aaron Rodgers' 4-1 Pittsburgh seem in complete dominance, with their competitors each declining

The Cleveland Browns have just a single victory and a continuously messy quarterback scenario, while The Ravens look finished following a 17-3 at home defeat by the Los Angeles Rams lowered them to one win

Merely four teams in professional football all-time records have made the play-offs after a single victory opening and, as Jackson heading an elite casualty report, Baltimore won't be adding to that statistic

The Bengals were defeated 18-27 in Green Bay to decline to 2-4, with forty-year-old Flacco hardly a direct stand-in for {Joe Burrow|Burrow|