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Game Notes: Redskins vs. Giants 2017

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REDSKINS-GIANTS GAME NOTES

• The Washington Redskins defeated the New York Giants, 20-10, in front of an announced crowd of 73,210 people at FedExField on Thursday.
• The Redskins are now 5-6 this season.
• The Redskins played their 10th Thanksgiving Day contest in team history. It was their first Thanksgiving Day contest against a team other than the Detroit Lions or Dallas Cowboys.
• The Redskins hosted a Thanksgiving home game for the first time in their 85-plus-year history.
• Including their Thanksgiving contest in Dallas last season, the Redskins played on Thanksgiving Day in consecutive years for the first time since 1973-74.
• The Redskins leveled their home record this season at 3-3.
• The Redskins improved to 4-5 against NFC opponents this season and secured their first victory against NFC East competition in 2017.
• The win represented Head Coach Jay Gruden's 26th career victory, tying him with Joe Kuharich for the fifth-most coaching victories in franchise history.
• The Redskins extended their streak of consecutive games with a touchdown to 47 straight contests (including postseason play), adding to the fourth-longest streak in team history. Washington entered the evening with the third-longest active streak in the NFL.
• Quarterback Kirk Cousins completed 19-of-31 passes for 242 yards with two touchdowns and one interception for a passer rating of 93.8.
• During the game, Cousins (3,038) surpassed 3,000 passing yards on the season, becoming the first quarterback in Redskins history to record three consecutive 3,000-yard passing seasons.
• Cousins started his 43rd consecutive regular season game for the Redskins, adding to the second-longest streak by a Redskins quarterback since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger, trailing only Joe Theismann (60 from 1980-84).
• On a 38-yard completion to wide receiver Jamison Crowder in the second quarter, Cousins reached the 15,000-yard career passing mark, becoming only the fifth player in team history to throw for 15,000 career yards with the Redskins, joining Joe Theismann, Sonny Jurgensen, Sammy Baugh and Mark Rypien.
• Crowder later added a 33-yard completion in the third quarter, giving him multiple 30-yard receptions in a single game for the second time this season (Week 10 vs. Minnesota).
• Crowder also caught a 25-yard reception in the third quarter, giving him three receptions of 25 or more yards in a single game for the first time in his career.
• Crowder recorded a career-high 141 yards on seven receptions, surpassing his previous career high of 123 yards set in Week 8 vs. Dallas.
• The 141 receiving yards by Crowder are the second-most by a member of the Redskins in a single game this season, trailing running back Chris Thompson's 150-yard effort against Oakland in Week 3.
• Crowder's 141 receiving yards were the most by a Redskins wide receiver since DeSean Jackson's 153-yard game against the Buffalo Bills in Week 15 of the 2015 season.
• The 100-yard receiving game was the sixth of Crowder's career and his second of the 2017 season.
• Cousins connected with Crowder on a 15-yard touchdown pass in the third quarter.
• The touchdown reception was the 10th of Crowder's career and his first of the season.
• The touchdown was Crowder's first since Week 13 of the 2016 season at Arizona.
• Running back Samaje Perine recorded 100 rushing yards on 24 carries and added 30 receiving yards on three receptions.
• Perine has now rushed for 100 yards in back-to-back games for the first time in his career.
• Perine became the first member of the Redskins to post consecutive 100-yard rushing games since Alfred Morris in Weeks 9-10 of the 2013 season.
• Perine became the first Redskins rookie with back-to-back 100-yard rushing games since Morris in Weeks 12-14 of the 2012 season.
• The Redskins gained 122 rushing yards and have now reached the 100-yard rushing mark in back-to-back games for the first time since a three-game stretch in Weeks 2-4 this year.
• Wide receiver Josh Doctson caught two passes for 28 yards, including a 14-yard touchdown reception.
• The receiving touchdown was Doctson's fourth of the season, tying him with running back Chris Thompson for the team lead.
• Running back Byron Marshall recorded his first reception as a member of the Redskins in the first quarter on a 12-yard pass from Cousins.
• Linebacker Ryan Kerrigan started his 107th consecutive regular season game, the longest active streak among active NFL linebackers. Kerrigan has not missed a start in his NFL career.
• Kerrigan recorded 2.0 sacks, his second multi-sack game of the season and his first since Week 8 vs. Dallas.
• The game was Kerrigan's 11th career contest with at least 2.0 sacks since entering the NFL in 2011.
• Kerrigan now has a team-leading 9.0 sacks this season.
• With a first-quarter sack, his eighth of the season, Kerrigan joined Jared Allen, Derrick Thomas, DeMarcus Ware and Reggie White as the only players in NFL history to record at least 7.5 sacks in each of the first seven seasons of a career since the NFL adopted sacks as an official statistic in 1982.
• Kerrigan tied Dexter Manley for the most seasons with 7.5 or more sacks in Redskins history (seven).
• Kerrigan has now recorded a full sack in back-to-back games for the first time since Weeks 2-3 this season.
• Defensive lineman Anthony Lanier II recorded his second career sack in the fourth quarter.
• Lanier has now recorded sacks in back-to-back games.
• Linebacker Junior Galette recorded his first full sack as a member of the Redskins on a fourth down sack-fumble of Giants quarterback Eli Manning in the fourth quarter.
• Cornerback Kendall Fuller sealed the victory with his team-leading fourth interception of the season on the Giants' final drive. Two of Fuller's four interceptions in 2017 have come on opponents' final offensive play of the game.
• At 22 years old, Fuller is the youngest member of the Redskins to record at least four interceptions in a season since Sean Taylor's four-interception season at 21 years of age in 2004, according to records provided by Pro Football Reference.
• With Fuller's interception, the Redskins have now intercepted a pass in four straight weeks for the first time since a five-game streak in the final five games of the 2013 season.
• The Redskins held Giants quarterback Eli Manning to 113 passing yards, his lowest total since Week 16 of the 2007 season (111, at Buffalo), a span of 155 regular season games.
• The Redskins allowed only 170 total yards, their second-fewest of the season and the third-fewest in a game in Gruden's tenure.
• Kicker Nick Rose converted field goal attempts of 28 and 33 yards. Rose is now 10-for-11 on field goal attempts since joining the Redskins in Week 7 and has converted his last seven attempts.
• Punter Tress Way recorded a career-high four punts downed inside the 20.
• The Redskins and Giants met for the 171st time, including postseason play. The Giants are the Redskins' most common opponent.
• The Redskins earned their 68th all-time victory against the Giants, including postseason play, already their third-most against any opponent.
• The Redskins have now won three of their last four contests against the Giants.
• The Redskins earned their third all-time victory on Thanksgiving, joining victories at Detroit in 1973 and at Dallas in 2012.
• The Redskins pulled their all-time Thursday record against the Giants to 2-3 and earned the franchise's first Thursday win against the Giants since a 13-3 win on Sept. 16, 1937, the Redskins' first game in Washington.


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