10 questions from Week 1 of the 2026 NFL season. Tap a question to reveal the answer. Hosting? One point each, 20 seconds per question, PDF below.
Opening nights
1. Sam Darnold was hurt on Seattle's opening drive of the Wednesday night kickoff game. Which backup threw the 45-yard fourth-and-1 touchdown to Jaxon Smith-Njigba as the Seahawks beat the Patriots 13-10?๏ผ
Drew Lock, who threw only three passes in all of 2025. Drake Maye was intercepted three times, the last by Josh Jobe in the end zone on New England's final drive. It was just the third Super Bowl rematch ever played in Week 1.
2. The 49ers beat the Rams 27-7 in front of 100,021 fans at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the NFL's first regular-season game in Australia. Which Rams running back scored the first NFL touchdown on Australian soil?๏ผ
Kyren Williams, on a 5-yard run. Brock Purdy threw three touchdown passes, the game averaged 18.5 million U.S. viewers on Netflix, and the crowd was the seventh-largest for a regular-season game in NFL history.
Sunday records
3. The Bears and Panthers combined for 96 points, the most ever in an NFL season opener. How many did Chicago score?๏ผ
59. The 96 combined points broke the 88 the Buccaneers and Saints put up in 2018, and 59 was Chicago's most in any game since 1980. D'Andre Swift ran for three touchdowns and Caleb Williams had two passing and two rushing scores.
4. Derrick Henry's three touchdowns against the Colts moved him past Marcus Allen into third on the NFL's career rushing touchdown list with 125. Emmitt Smith leads with 164. Who is the only other player ahead of Henry?๏ผ
LaDainian Tomlinson, who finished with 145. Henry ran for 144 yards in the 41-23 win, the first for new Ravens head coach Jesse Minter, who replaced John Harbaugh.
5. T.J. Watt's pick-six of Cooper Rush sealed Pittsburgh's 20-13 win in Atlanta and made him only the second player with 100 career sacks and 10 interceptions. Which Hall of Famer is the other?๏ผ
Julius Peppers. Watt also had two sacks and two tackles for loss. The interception was the 10th of his career, and sacks have only been an official NFL stat since 1982.
6. Buccaneers rookie Josiah Trotter became the first player ever with a sack and a pick-six in his NFL debut. His father Jeremiah was a four-time Pro Bowl linebacker for which team?๏ผ
Philadelphia Eagles. Trotter, a second-round pick out of Missouri, returned a Joe Burrow pass 38 yards in a 33-27 loss to the Bengals. His older brother Jeremiah Trotter Jr. won a Super Bowl with the Eagles.
Coaches and comebacks
7. The Cardinals upset the Chargers 26-14 to give Mike LaFleur a win in his head coaching debut. He is the first Cardinals coach to win his opener since which coach did it in 1973?๏ผ
Don Coryell. He won his debut when the franchise still played in St. Louis, and the 12 Cardinals coaches hired after him all lost their first game. LaFleur's brother Matt watched his Packers blow a 12-point third-quarter lead the same afternoon.
8. Kyler Murray's Vikings debut lasted 11 plays before a concussion. Which backup threw three touchdown passes as Minnesota scored 29 straight points to beat Green Bay 39-22?๏ผ
Carson Wentz. He went 12 of 19 for 133 yards, with two touchdowns to Justin Jefferson. Minnesota became the first team ever to trail by 12 or more with under 20 minutes left and win by 17 or more.
9. Jaxson Dart threw three touchdowns in John Harbaugh's Giants debut, a 28-20 Sunday night win over Dallas. Which former Ravens tight end caught two of them?๏ผ
Isaiah Likely. He caught all eight of his targets for 78 yards. Dart went 23 of 29 for 230 yards with no interceptions and added 54 rushing yards. It was only the Giants' third win over Dallas in their last 19 meetings.
Monday night
10. Patrick Mahomes returned from a torn ACL as the Chiefs beat the Broncos 31-10 on Monday night. He tore it in a Week 15 loss last December that also knocked Kansas City out of the playoff race. Who beat the Chiefs that day?๏ผ
Los Angeles Chargers. They won 16-13 on December 14, 2025, and Kansas City finished 6-11, its first year without a playoff berth since 2014. Mahomes ran for a 15-yard score on his first drive back, and Super Bowl LX MVP Kenneth Walker III ran for 173 yards in his Chiefs debut.
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