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The CLEVELAND BROWNS (2-2) enter Week 6 with the top-ranked defense in the league (196.8 yards allowed per game), while the SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS (5-0) rank third (266.8 yards allowed per game). The 49ers also lead the league in scoring defense, allowing 13.6 points per game, while the Browns rank tied for second, allowing 15.0 points per game.
When the two clubs meet in Cleveland on Sunday (10:00 AM PT, FOX), it will mark the first game since 2013 (New England at New Orleans in Week 6) featuring two teams that are each allowing 15 points or fewer per game in Week 6 or later.
Since 2021, Cleveland defensive end MYLES GARRETT leads the NFL with 37.5 sacks, while San Francisco defensive lineman NICK BOSA ranks third with 35.5. Since entering the league in 2017, Garrett ranks second in the league with 80 sacks.
With a sack on Sunday, Garrett, who turns 28 later this season, can surpass Pro Football Hall of Famer REGGIE WHITE (80 sacks) for the most sacks by a player prior to his 28th birthday since 1982, when the individual sack became an official statistic.
The players with the most sacks prior to their 28th birthday since 1982:
| Player | Team | Sacks |
| Myles Garrett | Cleveland | 80 |
| Reggie White | Philadelphia | 80 |
| Derrick Thomas | Kansas City | 77 |
*Turns 28 on Dec. 29, 2023
49ers Look to Continue History Streaks
The 49ers have won 15 consecutive regular-season games since Week 8 of the 2022 season and have scored at least 30 points in each of their past eight wins.
With 30 points at Cleveland on Sunday, the 49ers can become the fifth team in NFL history to score 30 points in nine consecutive regular-season games, joining the 1999-2000 ST. LOUIS RAMS (14 consecutive games), 2010-11 NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS (13), 2012-13 DENVER BRONCOS (11) and 2006-07 NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS (nine).
The teams to score at least 30 points in the most consecutive games in NFL history:
| Team | Seasons | Games |
| St. Louis Rams | 1999-2000 | 14 |
| New England Patriots | 2010-11 | 13 |
| Denver Broncos | 2012-13 | 11 |
| New England Patriots | 2006-07 | 9 |
| San Francisco 49ers | 2022-23 | 8* |
*Active streak
San Francisco can also become the second team in NFL history to score at least 30 points and allow less than 30 points in each of their first six games of a season, joining New England in 2007.
Quarterback BROCK PURDY is expected to make his 11th career regular-season start on Sunday. He has won each of his first 10 career regular-season starts and with a win against Cleveland, would join BEN ROETHLISBERGER (15 consecutive wins to begin his career) as the only quarterbacks to begin their careers since 1970 to win each of their first 11 career starts.
Purdy leads the NFL with a 123.1 passer rating this season and is one of two quarterbacks (C.J. STROUD) without an interception (minimum two starts). Purdy can become the second player in NFL history with no interceptions and a passer rating of 90-or-higher in each of his team's first six games of a season, joining RUSSELL WILSON in 2019.
Running back CHRISTIAN MCCAFFREY leads the NFL with 678 scrimmage yards and ranks tied for first in both scrimmage touchdowns (eight) and rushing touchdowns (seven) through the first five weeks of the season. In Week 6, he can become the second player since 2000 to record a rushing touchdown in each of his team's first six games of a season, joining Pro Football Hall of Famer LADAINIAN TOMLINSON (2005).
Dating back to Week 13 of the 2022 season and including the postseason, McCaffrey has recorded at least one scrimmage touchdown in 14 consecutive games. With a touchdown on Sunday, he would become the fourth player in NFL history to register a touchdown in 15 consecutive games, including the postseason, joining Pro Football Hall of Famers LENNY MOORE (17 consecutive games from 1963-64), JOHN RIGGINS (15 consecutive games from 1982-83) and O.J. SIMPSON (15 consecutive games from 1974-75).
The players with the most consecutive games with a touchdown, including the postseason, in NFL history:
| Player | Team | Games (Dates) |
| Lenny Moore | Baltimore Colts | 17 (Oct. 27, 1963 – Dec. 13, 1964) |
| John Riggins | Washington | 15 (Jan. 15, 1983 – Nov. 27, 1983) |
| O.J. Simpson | Buffalo | 15 (Dec. 12, 1974 – Dec. 20 – 1975) |
| Christian McCaffrey | San Francisco | 14* (Dec. 4, 2022 – current) |
| Emmitt Smith | Dallas | 14 (Oct. 8, 1995 – Jan. 28, 1996) |
*Active streak
McCaffrey has 12 career games with both a rushing touchdown and a receiving touchdown and with another such game, he can surpass Pro Football Hall of Famer LENNY MOORE (12 games) and BRIAN WESTBROOK (12) for the second-most such games in NFL history. Only Pro Football Hall of Famer MARSHALL FAULK (15 games) has more.
