NFL Insider: Who’s hot, who’s not and more

Who’s hot

St. Louis Rams rookie running back Tre Mason, inactive the first four games of the season, has started the past five games. He has 405 yards and two touchdowns in that span, with 10 catches for 99 yards. For the season, the former Auburn star has 562 yards and has averaged 4.6 yards per attempt.

Who’s not

Minnesota Vikings receiver/kick returner Cordarrelle Patterson played only three offensive snaps and four on special teams last week. He is averaging only 25.5 yards and no touchdowns on kickoff returns and has only 30 receptions and one touchdown.

Numbers game

96 Consecutive punt returns by Cincinnati’s Adam Jones without a fair catch before he signaled for one last week against Tampa Bay. It was his first fair catch since November 2006.

2015 NFL Draft

Dane Brugler of CBS Sports and NFLDraftScout.com gives his top-10 senior safeties and top-five underclassmen at the position for the 2015 draft:

Senior safeties

1. Cody Prewitt, Mississippi, 6-2, 220, 4.62

2. Kurtis Drummond, Michigan State, 6-1, 200, 4.59

3. Derron Smith, Fresno State, 5-11, 200, 4.57

4. Jaquiski Tartt, Samford, 6-1, 218, 4.62

5. Eric Rowe, Utah, 6-1, 205, 4.49

6. Erick Dargan, Oregon, 5-11, 212, 4.59

7. Anthony Harris, Virginia, 6-0, 190, 4.55

8. Jermaine Whitehead, Auburn, 5-11, 201, 4.56

9. Adrian Amos, Penn State, 6-0, 215, 4.62

10. Jordan Richards, Stanford, 5-11, 208, 4.59

Draft-eligible underclassmen

1. Landon Collins, Alabama, 6-0, 215, 4.53

2. Gerod Holliman, Louisville, 6-0, 202, 4.54

3. Chris Hackett, TCU, 6-1, 196, 4.68

4. Durrell Eskridge, Syracuse, 6-2, 207, 4.58

5. Karl Joseph, West Virginia, 5-10, 200, 4.63

Blitz

No team has clinched a playoff berth, and 26 teams remain in contention.

The Jacksonville Jaguars enter Sunday’s game as 4.5-point underdogs, making them underdogs in 41 consecutive games.

The San Diego Chargers have three sacks in their past five games.

The Denver Broncos are allowing only 4.69 yards per play, the fewest in the league.

Bills rookie receiver Sammy Watkins has only 13 catches for 105 yards and no touchdowns his past four games.

Eagles running back LeSean McCoy needs 48 yards to replace Wilbert Montgomery as the team’s all-time career rushing leader. McCoy, 26, has 6,491 yards.

The New York Giants have 20 players on season-ending injured reserve. That number, the most in the NFL, translates to approximately 37 percent of an active 53-man NFL roster and averages out to 1.25 players lost due to injury per week during the season.

Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger had a 110.6 passer rating with 22 touchdowns and three interceptions the first nine games. He has a 79.3 rating, with four touchdowns and five interceptions the past three.

Bengals receiver Mohamed Sanu has a perfect 158.3 career passer rating. He is 5 of 5 for 177 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions, including 3-of-3 for 79 yards and a touchdown this year.

The Philadelphia Eagles have held their past seven opponents to 3.7 yards per carry, the fifth-best average in the league over that period.

The Green Bay Packers are 6-0 at home this season. They have not lost at Lambeau since falling to the San Francisco 49ers 23-20 in the wild-card round last January.

The Indianapolis Colts have nine games with 400-plus net yards of total offense this season. That’s a franchise single-season record.

Ravens coach John Harbaugh is 8-4 against AFC East teams in his career.

The Miami Dolphins have allowed 478 rushing yards the past two weeks. This season, they have given up four 100-yard rushers — Jacksonville’s Denard Robinson (108), Kansas City’s Knile Davis (134), Denver’s C.J. Anderson (167) and the Jets’ Chris Johnson (105) .

The Patriots and the Chargers both have 17-3 home records in the month of December since 2009.

Information from The Sports Xchange was used in this report.

This story was originally published December 6, 2014 at 7:47 PM with the headline "NFL Insider: Who’s hot, who’s not and more."