NFL Week 7 · chalk talk

Two unbeatens erased. Minnesota stands alone at 6⁠–⁠0.

On one Sunday, Seattle held Kansas City to three points and Atlanta forced four turnovers against San Francisco. That leaves the Vikings as the league's last undefeated team, with Dallas at Philadelphia still to play tonight.

Monday, October 26, 2026 · results through Sunday Night Football

The two zeros that fell

Kansas City and San Francisco entered Sunday without a loss. Neither left that way.

Sunday Night · Lumen Field
SEA 20 · KC 3

Seattle's defense smothered the Chiefs: 213 total yards, no trips inside the red zone, and the deepest Kansas City got was the Seattle 27. Patrick Mahomes was pressured on 8 of 15 first-half dropbacks and threw an interception before the break.

  • Jaxon Smith-Njigba: 9 catches, 150 yards, 129 of them in the first half. He leads the NFL with 867 receiving yards and 8 receiving touchdowns.
  • Kenneth Walker III, the league's rushing leader coming in, managed 36 yards on 14 carries against his old team.
  • Seattle has now gone 36 straight games without allowing a 100-yard rusher. Seahawks 4⁠–⁠3, Chiefs 5⁠–⁠1.
Early window · Atlanta
ATL 29 · SF 20

The 49ers outgained Atlanta 400 to 295 and still lost, because the Falcons took the ball away four times: two Brock Purdy interceptions and two fumbles. San Francisco was already without Nick Bosa, Deebo Samuel and Mike Evans, and Christian McCaffrey left with a thigh injury.

  • Michael Penix Jr.: 25 of 34, 213 yards, 3 touchdowns, no interceptions, and pressured on only 3 of 34 dropbacks.
  • Kyle Pitts caught a touchdown for the third straight game; Drake London and Nick Muse (his first career TD) also scored.
  • Falcons 3⁠–⁠4, 49ers 6⁠–⁠1.

The whole slate

Winners circled. Times Central. Byes: Bills, Jaguars, Chargers, Commanders.

Numbers worth chalking up

35⁠–⁠0

Cincinnati's second half

Fifty-nine yards and no points before halftime in Baltimore, then five touchdowns. Burrow finished 22 of 30 for 292 yards and four scores.

4 straight

Nabers at 100+

Malik Nabers caught 7 passes for 111 yards, his fourth straight 100-yard game, the longest active run in the league.

62 + 52

Bo Nix, both ways

A 62-yard touchdown run and a 52-yard touchdown pass. NFL.com counts him as the fifth QB in a century to do both from 50+ in one game.

85.2%

Minnesota's blitz rate

The Vikings blitzed Daniel Jones on 85.2% of his dropbacks, the highest rate of the Next Gen Stats era. Jones finished 13 of 22 for 108 yards.

12.3

Points allowed per game

The Vikings' league-low defensive average. Blake Cashman had 12 tackles and two sacks against the Colts.

5 for 5

Watson's winning drives

Deshaun Watson has led a game-winning drive in every Cleveland win this season. The Browns are 5⁠–⁠2.

The magnet board

Flip the switch and watch the magnets slide. Arrows show each team's change in place within its division. Gray magnets were on a bye; Dallas and Philadelphia play tonight.

Ordered by win percentage (a tie counts as half a win). Teams level on percentage keep the order of the source table; these are not official tiebreakers. "Before" records come from CBS Sports' standings after Thursday's game, with Chicago and New England rolled back one game.

Still to play

Sources

  1. NFL.com: Week 7, what we learned from Sunday's games
  2. ESPN: Week 7 Sunday takeaways and questions
  3. ESPN: Seahawks hand Chiefs first loss
  4. Yahoo Sports: Seahawks dominate Chiefs, win 20-3
  5. ESPN: Bears 30, Patriots 24 recap
  6. Bleacher Report: Week 7 takeaways for every team
  7. FootballDB: 2026 Week 7 scores
  8. Pro Football Reference: 2026 Week 7
  9. CBS Sports: NFL standings
  10. Yahoo Sports: Week 7 live updates, injuries and byes