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Inside the Numbers: Darius Slayton-Daniel Jones connection
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Inside the Numbers: Darius Slayton-Daniel Jones connection

*Tyrone Tracy's 129 rushing yards were the highest total ever by a Giants in their first career start; The previous record was held by Andre Brown on September 20, 2012 with 113 yards in Carolina.

*Tracy averaged 7.2 yards on his 18 carries. It was the highest average by a Giants running back with at least 18 attempts since Saquon Barkley averaged 9.1 yards per carry at Tennessee on Sept. 11, 2022, and the highest by a Giants rookie since Eddie Price on Dec. 3 averaged 8.7 yards per carry. 1950, against the New York Yanks. Tracy's 7.2-yard average was the most by an NFL rookie since Miami's De'Von Achane averaged 11.3 yards (18 carries for 203 yards) against Denver on September 24, 2023.

*Jones completed 23 of 34 passes for 257 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions, for a passer rating of 109.6. This was the first time since December 21, 2014 that the Giants had a player with a passer rating over 100, a player with over 100 rushing yards and a player with over 100 receiving yards in St. Louis. In a 37-27 win over the Rams, Eli Manning had a 148.8 rating, Andre Williams ran for 110 yards, and Odell Beckham, Jr. (148) and Rueben Randle (132) each had more than 100 yards.

*Jones has played three games this season with two touchdown passes, no interceptions and a passer rating of at least 100.0, tying him with Tampa Bay's Baker Mayfield for the most such games in the NFL this season. Jones has achieved this feat ten times in his career. Eli Manning did it a career-high 38 times, including six times in 2009.

*The win in Seattle was Jones' third game this season with more than two touchdown passes and no giveaways (interceptions or fumbles). He played three such games in the first five seasons of his career, including two in 2022.

*Jones threw two touchdown passes in one game for the 16thTh time in his career. He has thrown four scoring passes twice and five touchdowns once. Jones has never finished a game with three touchdown passes.

*The Giants are 17-16-1 in games in which Jones starts and doesn't have an interception, and 7-23 when he throws an interception.

*The Giant' recorded seven sacks in Seattle and leads the NFL with 22 sacks, two more than the Minnesota Vikings. The 22 sacks are the second most the Giants have ever had through five games, surpassed only by their 26 sacks in 1985.

*Dexter Lawrence had a career-high 3.0 sacks in Seattle. With 6.0 sacks this season, he is one of three players ranked second in the NFL, a half-sack behind Detroit's Aidan Hutchinson.

*Lawrence's 6.0 sacks are the most by a Giants player in five games since Jason Pierre-Paul had 6.5 sacks in 2011.

*Lawrence increased his career sack total to 27.0, which ranks him 13thTh on the Giants' official career list (since 1982).

*On Sunday, the Giants' time of possession was 37:22, while the Seahawks held the ball 22:38. The plus-14:44 time of possession was the Giants' most since Nov. 29, 2020, in a win at Cincinnati. The Giants host the Bengals on Sunday night.

*Although he didn't play in Seattle, Nabers still leads the NFL with 35 receptions. The Jets' Garrett Wilson is second with 33.

*Robinson is in the four-way tie for third place with 32 catches. The Giants are the only team with two players among the top six pass catchers.

*Seattle's Rayshawn Jenkins' 102-yard fumble return is the longest touchdown in the NFL this season and the longest in the league since Jason Pinnock's 102-yard interception return score in Miami a year ago today.

*Jenkins scored after Eric Gray made a mistake at the end of a 16-play Giants drive with 10:01 left. It was the highest number of games played and the longest time the Giants had the ball since December 6, 2015, when the Giants held the ball for 17 plays and 11:21 against the Jets before Manning was intercepted by Rontez Miles No score ended a fourth down from the 4-yard line.

*The Giants had 34 rushing attempts on Sunday (including a kneel-down). This season, NFL teams with at least 30 runs are 44-10; The Giants are 20-3-1 in such games since the 2020 season.

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