Best & Worst NFL Week Sixteen

We have reached a first the history of the National Football League. This is the first season in league history in which we've had an NFL game played on every single day of the week. This week saw plenty of exciting games and great storylines to talk about. One running back went off in the scoring department, while another guy saw his job taken away from him. We saw another team start on a winning streak which may have cost them going forward. More playoff spots were locked up, while other teams are still fighting it out going into the last day of the season for spots. All that and more went down during week sixteen. Here's a look at the best and worst from the week that was in the NFL.

Best: Alvin Kamara, Running Back New Orleans Saints
After the game Kamara had on Christmas Day, this one was an easy one to pick. New Orleans rolled over Minnesota to the tune of a 52-33 win and Kamara shattered a 91 year old league record. He had 22 carries for 155 yards. the Yards trailed only Jeff Wilson of the 49ers for most in the league this week. That's not the record. The record was the fact that he scored six touchdowns on the day. SIX! Nobody has done that since Ernie Nevers in 1929. Kamara also became the 4th player in league history to score six TD's in a game, and the first one to do it since Gale Sayers in 1965. By this performance it locked up the top seed in the NFC this season. the Saints are now primed and ready to rock and roll for the start of the playoffs

Worst: Dwayne Haskins, Quarterback Washington Football Team
Washington had a chance to lock up the NFC East title on Sunday against Carolina. The Football Team wasn't able to get it done, falling to the Panthers 20-13, and Haskins was a problem. He had been benched earlier this year for interception problems and other off the field issues. But with Alex Smith dealing with a calf issue, Washington had to go back to him. Against the Panthers, he threw two more picks and lost a fumble. He been in the NFL two years and still has trouble keeping a handle on the ball at this level. Its now gotten so bad in Washington for Haskins, that after the loss, Haskins was cut by the team. Now Washington faces a win and in on Sunday and have to go with either a banged up Alex Smith or Taylor Heinicke, a guy who hadn't thrown a a pass in the NFL in two years before Sunday when he took over.

Best: Jacksonville Jaguars
Jacksonville had its doors blown off on Sunday by the Bears, to the tune of a 41-17 loss. How is this putting them in the best department? Well it means a 14 game losing streak for the Jaguars and it locked up the number one overall pick will be the Jaguars in the 2021 NFL Draft. This was a Jacksonville team that beat the Colts the first game of the season and hasn't been a good team since then. This is a good thing because it puts them in the best possible spot to grab a franchise player in Trevor Lawrence. Its been a bad year for the Jaguars, but it turned out to be a very good thing to get them going in the right direction with having the first overall pick next season.

Worst: Los Angeles Rams
Things just keep going south for the Rams. First, was the gut punching loss to the Jets last week, giving New York its first win of the year. Now there was what happened this weekend. All the Rams had to do was win against Seattle and get into the playoffs. Easier said then done. Seattle rolled over the Rams 20-9, in a game in which Jared Geoff was making more bad decisions. Some of what he was doing was worse then the decisions he made against the Jets the week before. Oh and to make matters worse, during the course of the game, Geoff managed to break his thumb on his throwing hand, which is going to require surgery. All this combined has the Rams in total danger of altogether missing the playoffs.

Best: Aaron Rogers, Quarterback Green Bay Packers
A little snow in Green Bay during football season never hurt anybody. If your Aaron Rogers, it was just another day in the office, as Green Bay rolled to a 40-14 win over the Titans. Rogers went 21 of 25 for 251 yards and four touchdowns, giving him 44 TD's on the season. That total ins one behind his career high which he set back in 2011. Oh and no other quarterback in the league has thrown for more than 38 touchdowns this year. He's putting up huge numbers, and so is the Packers offense, who's the highest scoring offense in the entire league. Rogers is playing, I'll flat out say it, at an MVP level and is carrying Green Bay right now. Sure the Saints are the favorite to come out of the NFC, but Rogers is playing at a level that puts Green Bay right up there as a team that looks like they could be the one to knock the Saints off the top of the mountain.

Worst: Vegas Raiders Defense
They had a lead against Miami on Sunday, a game they had to win if they wanted to even remotely sniff staying in the playoff race. Once again, the Defense managed to fall short of its duty for the Silver and Black, as Miami walked away with a 26-25 win. What ended up killing the Raiders was a horrible facemask call late in the game that gave the Dolphins drive more life, and ended up keeping a drive going that allowed the Dolphins to hit their game winning field goal. With the loss, Vegas has been eliminated from playoff contention. There had been some hope floating around this Vegas club as the year has gone on as to whether or not that this team had what it took to get to the playoffs. With this defensive blunder late in the game, that dashed out all hope of January football