In his second NFL season, Falcons running back Devonta Freeman hadn’t started a game before Week Three. He has now started two in a row. And, according to the NFL, he’s the first player at least since the merger to score three touchdowns in each of his first two NFL starts.
With seven total touchdowns this year, Freeman is the first player since Chargers running back LaDainian Tomlinson in 2005 to rush for at least seven touchdowns in the first four games of a season.
Also, and as Field Yates of ESPN noted during the game, Freeman is the first player to score three touchdowns in consecutive weeks since Tomlinson in his MVP season of 2006.
Freeman also has 252 yards rushing, four more than he had in 16 games as a rookie in 2014.
More importantly, the Falcons are 4-0 with five winnable games coming up before their Week 10 bye.