The 32 things we learned from Week 1 of the 2025 NFL season:
0. The number of career receptions – entering Sunday – by San Francisco 49ers TE Jake Tonges. But, filling in for injured star George Kittle, Tonges had three grabs in Seattle, including a game-winning 4-yard TD snag, in the Niners’ 17-13 defeat of the Seahawks.
1. As in still No. 1. If the Philadelphia Eagles can win Super Bowl 60 next February, it would mark just the second time in league history that there would be back-to-back back-to-back Super Bowl champions, the lone occurrence as of now being when the 1974-75 champion Pittsburgh Steelers followed the 1972-73 Miami Dolphins. Philly started its quest with a 24-20 win over the Dallas Cowboys on Thursday night, making defending champions 21-5 since 2000 in regular-season openers directly following a Super Sunday triumph.
1a. As in the fresh jersey number worn by newly obtained Green Bay Packers DE Micah Parsons, who was also undoubtedly the No. 1 story of the offseason following his shocking trade from the Cowboys. In Parsons’ Pack debut, creaky back and all, he registered a fourth-quarter sack of QB Jared Goff – and pressured him twice, per PFF – in Green Bay’s 27-13 statement rout of the Detroit Lions, NFC North champs the past two seasons.
