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With a third of the professional football campaign completed, teams are starting to show their real potential

The Buccaneers and Indianapolis Colts emerged as the first clubs to achieve five wins as they continued their remarkable beginnings to the campaign

The Seahawks and New England are developing as contenders, while Pittsburgh are seeming settled in the Northern division

This campaign appears over already for one of the big preseason title game favourites Baltimore, but things just be getting going for The Chiefs

Tampa Bay's leader Gets Most Valuable Player Shouts

Could Baker Mayfield in the running for top honors? That is exactly what Tampa Bay Buccaneers fans were shouting following one more all-action showing from their signal-caller in a successful outcome over the The 49ers

Mayfield is the main reason the Tampa Bay are with five wins and he led with authority once more, throwing two touchdowns and executing all the big plays - featuring an amazing crucial situation rush when he barged through multiple defenders to secure a vital new set of downs

He demonstrates a ability that you can't teach or coach

Mayfield's clutch plays had led to each of the four previous wins happening in the dying moments - the more decisive manner on Sunday further boosted his increasing Most Valuable Player arguments

Indianapolis's signal-caller is a similar redemption tale in Indianapolis following the The Colts beat the Arizona to go to five and one - their best beginning after 2009

Rusher Jonathan Taylor is the second star of the Colts' unexpected opening, but the quarterback creates significant moments at the correct juncture - registering two throwing touchdowns and a single ground on Sunday

No Maye-be About It - New England Have Returned

Serving as a New England signal-caller includes a unique expectation thanks to the former Patriot, but through Drake Maye they may eventually have their future face of the franchise

In just his second season, Maye looks poised in the protection and is not scared to throw the pigskin downfield - delivering TDs of various distances and seeing a 61-yarder nullified by a violation in Sunday's win at the The Saints

He's just the fourth different signal-caller below age 24 to record five consecutive matches with 200-plus throwing yards and a QB rating of triple digits

The most recent pair being a primetime success in Buffalo and subsequently, in the intense noise of the Superdome, demonstrate why New England faithful are getting enthusiastic that - guided by recently appointed coach the new coach - they might be a force once more

The Seahawks matched the The Pats on four wins as they won their ninth in a row visiting game - an remarkable twenty to twelve success at the Jacksonville

Darnold is demonstrating last year's improvement in for Minnesota was genuine and he possesses a premier pass catchers in the game in the receiver, who secured eight receptions for substantial yardage and a TD in Jacksonville

Pittsburgh Steelers' Playoff Route Opens Up

The Pittsburgh Steelers progressed to four wins with a twenty-second consecutive home win versus the Cleveland Browns in the NFL season - and they appear to have an favorable opportunity to the playoffs at present in a softer division

Normally among the most difficult sections in the league but Rodgers' four-win Steelers seem in complete control, with their opponents each declining

The Browns have only a single victory and a persistently complicated QB circumstance, while the Baltimore Ravens seem completed subsequent to a seventeen to three at home loss by Los Angeles dropped them to one and five

Merely four clubs in NFL all-time records have qualified for the playoffs subsequent to a one and five opening and, while Jackson leading an all-star injury list, Baltimore will not be contributing to that record

The Cincinnati Bengals lost 18-27 in against the Packers to decline to 2-4, with 40-year-old Joe Flacco not quite a direct stand-in for {Joe Burrow|Burrow|