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With a third of the NFL season finished, teams are demonstrating their actual capabilities

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Indianapolis Colts became the first franchises to achieve five wins as they persisted with their notable starts to the season

The Seattle Seahawks and The Patriots are developing as contenders, while The Steelers are looking established in the Northern division

The schedule seems concluded already for an important before the campaign Super Bowl top picks the Ravens, but could be starting to develop for Kansas City

Tampa Bay's leader Gets MVP Calls

Could Baker Mayfield a Most Valuable Player contender? That is exactly what Bucs supporters were yelling subsequent to another all-action display from their signal-caller in a 30-19 victory over the The 49ers

The 30-year-old is the main reason the Buccaneers are with five wins and he led from the front again, passing a pair of TDs and producing all the big plays - including an incredible crucial situation carry when he barged past several opponents to get a crucial new set of downs

He has a knack that isn't coachable or instructed

Mayfield's crucial plays had resulted in all four earlier victories happening in the dying moments - the more definitive approach this past Sunday further boosted his growing top performer claims

Daniel Jones is a comparable comeback tale in with the Colts subsequent to the Colts overcame the Arizona to reach five and one - their best opening since nine years ago

Ball carrier Taylor is the other star of the the team's unexpected beginning, but Daniel Jones produces significant plays at the appropriate time - recording dual passing touchdowns and a single rushing this past Sunday

Certainly Regarding This - The Patriots Are Competitive Again

Occupying the position of a New England Patriots quarterback involves a unique pressure due to the former Patriot, but with Drake Maye they could at last have their next franchise quarterback

Following merely his second season, Drake Maye seems poised in the passing area and is unafraid to launch the ball downfield - throwing TDs of multiple lengths and witnessing a long completion nullified by a penalty in the weekend's victory at the New Orleans Saints

He becomes the fourth signal-caller below age 24 to achieve five consecutive games with more than 200 passing yards and a passer rating of 100 and above

The last two including a national television victory in Buffalo and subsequently, in the intense noise of the Saints' home, illustrate the explanation for Pats fans are becoming excited that - with recently appointed leader Vrabel - they might be back in business

Seattle joined the Patriots on 4-2 as they secured their ninth in a row road contest - an impressive twenty to twelve win at the Jacksonville

The quarterback is demonstrating the previous season's comeback in Minnesota was not accidental and he possesses among the top wideouts in the game in Smith-Njigba, who caught eight different catches for substantial yardage and a TD in Jacksonville

The Steelers' Playoff Path Becomes Clear

The Steelers progressed to 4-1 with a 22nd consecutive straight home success versus the Cleveland Browns in the NFL season - and they seem to have an open door to the play-offs at present in a softer AFC North

Normally one of the toughest groups around but the quarterback's 4-1 Pittsburgh look in absolute command, with their rivals each declining

Cleveland have merely one win and a constantly messy QB situation, while the Baltimore Ravens look done for following a seventeen to three home setback by the Los Angeles Rams lowered them to one win

Just four franchises in NFL all-time records have qualified for the play-offs after a single victory start and, with Lamar Jackson topping an premier casualty report, Baltimore is unlikely to be including to that statistic

Cincinnati fell 18-27 in Green Bay to drop to two wins, with 40-year-old the quarterback not quite a equivalent substitute for {Joe Burrow|Burrow|