Player Notes

QB Matt Ryan threw for 291 yards Sunday. Ryan led the offense over the 50 on seven of their eight possessions, but they only made it into the end zone on the Jones touchdown.

QB Dak Prescott passed for 208 yards against the Falcons Sunday. He gave the game its first touchdown with a 4-yard scamper to put the Cowboys up 12-6.

RB Ezekiel Elliott ran for 122 yards and a 23-yard touchdown Sunday. The score came after a Matt Ryan pass hit the hands of Calvin Ridley and bounced into the arms of Dallas linebacker Leighton Vander Esch for a critical interception. Elliott also led the team with seven catches for 79 yards.

PK Brett Maher hit the winning field goal from 42-yards out, and the Cowboys won 22-19 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium for their first winning streak of the season. It brings them up to 5-5 and within a game of first place in the NFC East after Washington lost to Houston.

QB Carson Wentz was intercepted three times in Sunday's loss to New Orleans and finished with 156 yards on 19-of-33 passing.

WR Tre'Quan Smith (10 catches, 157 yards, one touchdown) was the most productive of the eight receivers that Brees connected with.

WR Michael Thomas (four catches, 92 yards and a touchdown) became the first New Orleans player to have three 1,000-yard receiving seasons to start his career.

QB Drew Brees passed for 363 yards and four touchdowns on Sunday even though his completion percentage (73 percent on 22 of 30) was lower than his 78-plus percentage coming in.

RB David Johnson rushed for 137 yards on 25 carries, but also had a 57-yard touchdown run nullified back by a holding penalty in Sunday's loss to Oakland.

QB Josh Rosen completed 9 of 20 passes for 136 yards three touchdowns, two to WR Larry Fitzgerald for five 18 yards, plus a 59-yarder to WRr Chris Kirk.