With their 30-19 win over the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers moved to 5-1 on the season, the best record in the NFC and tied with the Indianapolis Colts for the best record in the NFL. **The start also matches the best record after six games in franchise history, as this is the sixth time the Buccaneers have achieved a 5-1 mark**. In each of the other five seasons – 1979, 1997, 2002, 2005 and 2021 – the team went on to make the playoffs, winning its division in all but the '97 campaign.
Dating back to the 2021 season, when the Buccaneers began their current run of four straight NFC South division titles, the team has held at least a share of the NFC South lead for 64 of the last 78 regular-season weeks. In 2024, the Buccaneers entered their Week 11 bye with a 4-6 record. **Since then, the team has gone 11-2 in regular-season play, the best record in the NFL in that span**.
Quarterback **Baker Mayfield** [heard "MVP!" chants](https://www.buccaneers.com/news/baker-mayfield-awes-teammates-with-mvp-caliber-play) from the Raymond James Stadium crowd on Sunday during another dominant performance that included 17 completions in 23 attempts for 256 yards, two touchdowns, no interceptions and a 139.0 passer rating. A week after completing 87.9% of his passes and averaging 11.5 yards per pass attempt in a win at Seattle, Mayfield completed 73.9% of his passes and averaged 11.1 yards per attempt against the 49ers. **That made Mayfield the nine quarterback in NFL history to complete at least 82% of his passes and average at least 11 yards per pass attempt over multiple games in a single season**. The other eight to do so were Jared Goff, Brock Purdy, Ryan Tannehill, Alex Smith, Peyton Manning, Kurt Warner, Rob Johnson and Ken Anderson.
Mayfield's touchdown passes of 34 yards to wide receiver **Kameron Johnson** and 45 yards to wide receiver **Tez Johnson** increased his season total to 12. Since he arrived in Tampa in 2023, Mayfield has thrown 81 regular-season touchdown passes, tied for the most in the NFL in that span.
**Most Touchdown Passes, NFL, 2023-25**
1t. Baker Mayfield, Buccaneers: 81
1t. Jared Goff, Lions: 81
3\. Lamar Jackson, Ravens: 75
4t. Josh Allen, Bills: 66
4t. Jordan Love, Packers: 66
Heading into a pair of games on Monday night to finish Week Six, Mayfield's 12 touchdown passes are tied for the third most in the NFL, and he has countered that with just one interception. **Mayfield is currently the only quarterback in the league with at least 12 touchdown passes and one or fewer interceptions**. Mayfield ranks in the top five in the NFL in the following categories:
Touchdown passes: t-3rd (12)
Touchdown/interception ratio (min. 5 TDs): 1st (12.0)
Touchdown pct.: t-4th (6.2%)
Passing yards: 4th (1,539)
Interception pct.: t-4th (0.5%)
Average pass length: 3rd (8.64)
Passer rating: 5th (108.5)
Mayfield only scrambled once in Sunday's win over the 49ers, but it was a doozy. With his team clinging to a one-point lead in the third quarter and facing a third-and-14, Mayfield escaped two defenders deep in the backfield and took off to his left, getting around another 49er defender and just extending the ball past the line to gain as he was finally brought down. According to NFL Next Gen Stats, Mayfield ran for 27 yards after contact on the play. It was the 11th first down he has produced this season on 22 carries. **Among all NFL quarterbacks with at least 10 runs in 2025, Mayfield is tied with the Colts' Daniel Jones in percentage of runs that end in first downs, at 50%**. Only the Saints' Spencer Rattler (57.7%) has a higher percentage.
Tez Johnson's 45-yard scoring grab in the third quarter was his first career touchdown. It was also **the third scoring pass of 40 or more yards produced by Mayfield this season, the most by any quarterback in the NFL**. Kam Johnson's touchdown reception in the second quarter was not only his first NFL score but his first NFL _reception_. He finished the game with a team-high four catches for 64 yards, filling the void after red-hot rookie wideout **Emeka Egbuka** was knocked out for the second half with a hamstring injury.