Atlanta Falcons 5 Most Interesting Facts From 2020 NFL Season

Atlanta Falcons’ 2020 season was highlighted by their explosive offense, but will be remembered for blowing some unfortunate leads. Matt Ryan once again put up insane numbers as the most productive Falcons QB ever with the help of one of the greatest WRs in NFL history in Julio Jones, and a young stud in Calvin Ridley. Atlanta is not far off from returning to playoff contention, if they can just avoid blowing leads at historic rates like they did in 2020.

NFL Team Facts From 2020 | Atlanta Falcons Facts to Know

Here are the 5 most interesting facts from the Atlanta Falcons 2020 NFL Season:

1st Ballot HOF

Julio Jones is well on his way to Canton whenever he decides to hang them up.

Most consecutive seasons with 1,400+ REC YDS in NFL history: 1. Julio Jones (5), 2. Marvin Harrison (4), 4 different players (3)
Most career REC YDS/GP of all-time: 1. Julio (95.5), 2. Calvin Johnson (86.1), 3. Michael Thomas (85.0), 4. Antonio Brown (84.5)
Julio has the most career GP (3) with 250+ REC YDS in NFL history. No other player in NFL history has more than 1
Jones has the most REC (113) & REC YDS (3,745) on PASS ATT of 20+ YDS from 2011-2020

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Matty Production

Matt Ryan is one of the most productive QB’s in NFL history.

Most PASS YDS in a player’s 1st 13 career seasons: Ryan (54,846), P. Manning (54,828), Brees (51,081), Marino (48,841)
1 of 5 QBs (Favre, Elway, Brady, & Roethlisberger) ever with: 50,000 career PASS YDS, 1,000 RUSH YDS, & 10 RUSH TDs

Future WR1

Calvin Ridley is following Julio’s footsteps from Alabama into becoming Atlanta’s future WR1.

Most GP of 100+ REC YDS in 2020: T-1. Calvin Ridley (7), T-1. DeAndre Hopkins (7)
Most REC of 15+ YDS since 2019: 1. Calvin Ridley (67), 2. Julio Jones (63)
Most REC (89) on throws of 10+ YDS since 2019
Joins OBJ, A.J. Green, & Gronk as the only players with 7+ REC TD in each of their 1st 3 career seasons since 2010

Historical Chokers

Falcons defense couldn’t keep up with their high-powered offense, and they had some historic chokes early on.

Most losses (3) with a 98%+ win probability in the last 20 seasons. The rest of the NFL had 4 such losses combined in the 1st half
1st team to have back-to-back games in which they blew a 15+ point 4th QTR lead and lost in NFL history
Only team to lose a game despite scoring 39 PTS & committing 0 TOs in NFL history. Teams were previously 440-0

Gurley the Great

Despite his injuries and decrease in performance, Todd Gurley still had a historic young career.

Gurley & David Johnson are the only 2 players in the NFL with 3,500+ RUSH YDS & 2,000+ REC YDS since the start of 2015
5th player to record 75 TD before their 27th birthday in NFL history
Tied Eric Dickerson for the 6th most scrimmage TD (78) in a RB’s 1st 6 seasons in NFL history