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With a third of the NFL schedule finished, franchises are starting to show their true colours

Tampa Bay and Indianapolis Colts emerged as the first teams to achieve five wins as they persisted with their notable beginnings to the campaign

The Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots are developing as competitors, while The Steelers are looking settled in the Northern division

The season looks over already for an important before the campaign Super Bowl favourites Baltimore, but could be starting to develop for Kansas City

Tampa Bay's leader Receives Most Valuable Player Chants

Is Baker Mayfield a Most Valuable Player contender? Precisely what Tampa Bay Buccaneers fans were chanting subsequent to a further all-action showing from their quarterback in a 30-19 win against the The 49ers

The quarterback is the primary reason the Bucs are five and one and he led as a leader once more, passing two scoring passes and producing all the big plays - including an incredible crucial situation run when he powered by multiple defenders to obtain a essential new set of downs

He possesses a talent that cannot be taught or trained

The quarterback's crucial performances had caused each of the four earlier successes occurring in the last minute - the more definitive manner during the weekend only enhanced his expanding Most Valuable Player claims

The Colts quarterback is a parallel resurgence narrative in Indianapolis subsequent to the Indianapolis beat the The Cardinals to reach 5-1 - their best start since the 2009 season

Running back the Colts RB is the second standout of the Colts' surprise opening, but Daniel Jones creates important moments at the correct juncture - achieving two aerial TDs and a single rushing this past Sunday

Definitely About It - New England Are Back

Occupying the position of a Patriots field general includes a special burden due to the legendary quarterback, but in Drake Maye they could finally have their next face of the franchise

In just his second campaign, Maye looks composed in the protection and is unafraid to air the pigskin long - passing touchdowns of multiple lengths and having a long completion ruled out by a violation in the weekend's victory at the The Saints

He's just the fourth different signal-caller below age 24 to achieve five in a row matches with 200-plus passing distance and a QB rating of 100 or higher

The last two featuring a primetime victory in versus Buffalo and subsequently, in the deafening atmosphere of the New Orleans stadium, demonstrate why Patriots supporters are getting enthusiastic that - under new head coach Mike Vrabel - they could be a force once more

The Seattle Seahawks equaled the The Pats on four and two as they achieved their ninth consecutive visiting contest - an impressive 20-12 win at the The Jaguars

Darnold is demonstrating the prior campaign's resurgence in Minnesota was no fluke and he has one of the best wideouts in the sport in Jaxon Smith-Njigba, who caught 8 catches for substantial yardage and a touchdown in Florida

Pittsburgh Steelers' Play-off Opportunity Emerges

The Pittsburgh Steelers progressed to four and one with a twenty-second straight at home victory versus the Cleveland Browns in the NFL season - and they appear to have an open door to the playoffs at present in a weakened division

Typically a particularly challenging divisions in football but Aaron Rodgers' four and one The Steelers look in absolute control, with their competitors everyone flagging

Cleveland have merely one success and a persistently complicated quarterback situation, while Baltimore seem completed subsequent to a 17-3 at home loss by the Los Angeles Rams reduced them to one and five

Just four teams in league all-time records have qualified for the postseason following a 1-5 start and, with the quarterback topping an elite injury list, the Ravens is unlikely to be including to that statistic

The Cincinnati Bengals lost 18-27 in Green Bay to fall to two wins, with forty-year-old Flacco not exactly a equivalent stand-in for {Joe Burrow|Burrow|