Stats, stats and more stats. That's what is all about. And when you're coming off as unpredictable an NFL season as we saw in 2015, well, there's going to be more than a few wild stats that are great fodder for the water cooler. More to the point, there's 101 ... at least in this column. So sit down in front of your laptop, or dial up your smart phone and be prepared to be amazed, mystified and maybe a little shocked at our latest edition of the 101 Football Facts.Special thanks to NFL researchers extraordinaire and for their help with this column.A total of 11 quarterbacks threw for 30 or more touchdowns in 2015. That is the most in a single season in NFL history. The previous high was nine, which was set in 2014. The NFL also saw a league-record 842 touchdown pa ses thrown, which is 35 more than the previous record that was also set in 2014.Teams threw the football 59.1 percent of the time this season, which is the highest percentage since 1995.There were 23 quarterbacks who scored 200-plus fantasy points in 2015, which is the most in a single season in NFL history. Also, the top 10 fantasy players overall were all quarterbacks. That's the first time it's happened in the era.The 2015 season also saw 17 signal-callers reach the 250-fantasy point plateau, which marks the fifth consecutive season that number has increased. That total has also more than doubled since 2010, when eight quarterbacks finished with 250-plus fantasy points. Collectively, quarterbacks set an all-time single-season record for fantasy points with 8,300. The previous record was 7,836, which was set in 2014.A total of 20 quarterbacks finished in the top 25 in fantasy points in 2015, which is the most in NFL history. Of the top 15 fantasy quarterbacks, 10 were drafted in the ninth round or later. This includes , who finished with the most fantasy points (389.08) in the league.Two quarterbacks (, Newton) scored 40-plus fantasy points in a single game this season. Both of those performances came against the (Brees, Week 8; Newton, Week 15). The third-best performance from a quarterback came from signal-caller . He scored 38 fantasy points in Week 8 ... against the in the same game that Brees recorded his 40 points.Aside from Brees and Newton, the only other player to score 40-plus fantasy points in a single game was rookie running back . He accomplished that feat against another NFC East team, the , in Week 15. Newton outscored him by 0.70 points that week.Newton became the first quarterback in NFL history to have 35-plus pa sing touchdowns and 10-plus rushing touchdowns in a single season. He also had an NFL-leading 389.1 fantasy points, which is the sixth-most scored in NFL history. The most fantasy points recorded in a single season was 425.1 by LaDainian Tomlinson in 2006.In his first five NFL seasons, Newton has scored more fantasy points (1,627.60) Hector Perez Jersey than any other player in NFL history. (1998-2002) is second ... he scored 1,279.30 fantasy points in his first five seasons.After finishing in the top two in fantasy points in each of the previous three campaigns, Brees failed to finish among the top five for the second straight season. Although he led the NFL in pa sing yards (4,870) and finished sixth in fantasy points, Brees recorded his fewest pa sing touchdowns in the last eight years.Manning threw the second-most interceptions (17) this season, despite starting just nine games. He averaged 9.1 fantasy points per game, which ranked 40th among quarterbacks and just below . His previous low for a campaign was 15.1 in 2005.From 2013-2014, Manning scored 20-plus fantasy points a total of 21 times. He scored 20 or more points just once in 2015, and scored fewer than 12 points in six different games. finished with 4,436 pa sing yards (second-most in his career) and 35 touchdown pa ses (career-high), but he barely cracked the top 10 in fantasy points among quarterbacks with 287.54. In 2009, that would have been good enough to finish third overall at the position. is the first quarterback in NFL history to record 4,000 pa sing yards, 30 pa sing touchdowns and 500 rushing yards in a single season. In his first nine games of 2015, Wilson averaged 15.80 fantasy points and was on pace to finish with 252.80 points. That would have ranked him 18th among quarterbacks. His production soared in the final seven weeks, however, as Wilson averaged 27.72 fantasy points and finished third among quarterbacks with 336.26 points.Wilson had as many touchdown pa ses (28) in his last 11 games as has in his entire career (28 touchdown pa ses in 29 games). finished seventh in fantasy points among quarterbacks in 2015. He had finished no worse than second in five of the previous six seasons. The only season he finished outside of the top two prior was in 2013, when he mi sed seven games with a broken collarbone.The fantasy postseason has not been kind to Rodgers in the last two years. In fact, he's scored fewer than 15 Steve Pearce Jersey fantasy points in four of the last six games he's started in Weeks 14-16. That includes three performances with 10.1 or fewer points.In 2015, , , , , and were among the 24 quarterbacks who scored more fantasy points than Rodgers from Weeks 14-17.Winston set ' franchise records for most pa sing yards (4,042) and touchdown pa ses (22) by a rookie. He finished 13th in fantasy points among quarterbacks (274.98), the highest total for a rookie signal-caller since , and all finished in the top 10 in 2012. scored 343.7 fantasy points at 38-years-old, making him the oldest player in NFL history to score at least 335 fantasy points in a single season.While Brady averaged 26.63 fantasy points in his first seven games of the season, his production dropped during the second half. In fact, he averaged 17.48 points over the final nine weeks including an average of 15.95 points in the fantasy playoffs (Weeks 14-16).The finished the 2015 campaign with a mere 11 touchdown pa ses. During the fourth quarter alone, Brady threw a combined 12 touchdown pa ses during the course of the season. averaged a mere 12.17 fantasy points per game prior to his "You Like That!" game against the in Week 7. Including that game and throughout the rest of the regular season, Cousins averaged 22.04 fantasy points per game.Over the final four weeks of the NFL's regular season, Cousins scored the second-most fantasy points in the NFL (108.40). In fact, his point total was more than double the output of Rodgers (50.26) during that time span. Cousins had 12 touchdown pa ses and one interception, while Rodgers to sed just five scoring strikes and had three picks.Based on ADP (average draft position), was one of the best values in among quarterbacks. Despite going undrafted in most leagues (ADP in 15th round), Bortles finished fourth in fantasy points in the NFL. He had 35 touchdown pa ses in 2015, which is now a single-season franchise record for the .Jacksonville was a hotbed for fantasy points in 2015. Bortles set single-season franchise records in pa sing yards (4,428) and touchdown pa ses (35), tied for the league lead with 14 touchdown catches (franchise record), and caught a touchdown in seven consecutive games (Weeks 3-10). That is also the longest streak in franchise history.The longest rush of the 2015 campaign belonged to rookie quarterback , who scored on an 87-yard touchdown (14.7 fantasy points) run against the in Week 13. Believe it or not, but that was more points than running back scored in any single game the entire season.Teams ran the football 26.3 times per game, which is the lowest mark since 1932. Games also averaged only 217.7 rushing yards, which is the lowest total this century and the sixth-lowest since 1932.Running backs scored a combined 8,236 fantasy points this season, which is the second-fewest since 2002.Of the top 15 running backs based on rushing yards in 2014, not one player saw an increase in that category this season. Seven running backs broke 1,000 rushing yards, the fewest since 1991.A record 18 quarterbacks outscored the top-scoring running back () this season. The previous record was six, set in 2012 and matched in 2014.Freeman finished with 243.90 fantasy points, which is the lowest point total for the top running since Charles White scored 207.5 points in 1987. A total of 15 running backs reached the 150-fantasy point plateau this season, which is the lowest number since 1996.Freeman and were the lone running backs with 200-plus fantasy points in 2015. That hasn't happened since 1987 when White and Herschel Walker were the lone 200-point runners. That was almost 30 years ago.Freeman's 243.9 fantasy points ranks 159th among running backs for a single-season total in NFL history. He doesn't have much of a chance to finish first in fantasy points at his position in 2016, however, as no running back has ranked in that top spot in back-to-back seasons since LaDainian Tomlinson did it in 2006-07.Peterson was the lone running back with 300-plus rushing attempts in 2015, which is the fewest number of running backs to reach that mark since 1990. He led the NFL with 1,485 rushing yards in 2015, making him just the third player in NFL history to lead the league in rushing yards after his 30th birthday.Peterson also rushed for more yards than seven different NFL teams this season.Peterson has now finished in the top 10 in fantasy points among running backs in eight of his nine NFL seasons. The only time he fell short was his suspension-shortened 2014 campaign.Peterson will be 31-years-old at the start of the 2016 season. Only two running backs have finished among the top three in fantasy points at the position at 31 years of age or older. Those two backs were John Riggins (1983) and Floyd Little (1973). Curtis Martin came close in 2004, but he finished 3.4 points behind Tomlinson for the No. 3 spot. (age 32) finished fourth in fantasy points among running backs this season, despite the fact that he touched the ball fewer than six times in five different games. Those contests occurred when was back from his two-game suspension and before he injured his knee.In the five games that Bell was active (not including the game he was injured in Week 8), Williams scored a total of 4.3 fantasy points. He averaged 17 points in the games without Bell, which projects to 272.1 points over a full season. That total would have ranked Williams No. 1 among running backs in points, ahead of both Freeman (-28.7) and Peterson (-41.4). appeared on the most NFL.com fantasy championship rosters (31.1 percent) this season. Based on his ADP, Johnson was drafted in Round 15.Some of the running backs picked ahead of Johnson on NFL.com include , , , and .Johnson had the best fantasy performance from a running back in 2015, as he rushed for 187 yards, scored three touchdowns and piled up 40.9 fantasy points against the (Week 15). Johnson became the first player with 150-plus rushing yards and three-plus rushing touchdowns in a game since Willis Crenshaw had 162 yards and three touchdowns in 1968 (Week 13) as a member of the St. Louis .Johnson was one of two rookies to finish in the top 20 in fantasy points among running backs, along with runner . was the lone rookie to finish in the top 20 at the position in 2014, while four finished in the top 20 in 2013.Despite the fact that he didn't start a game until Week 4, Gurley still led all rookie runners with 1,106 rushing yards. He had five games with at least 125 rushing yards as well, trailing only r Eric Dickerson for the most ever by a first-year back. He had seven such performances in 1983. was one of the bigger disappointments in , finishing 18th in points among running backs after finishing first in points the previous season. He experienced a 153.7-point decline in production compared to his final year in Dallas. Murray also averaged 0.59 points per touch last season, compared to 0.65 points in 2014.Murray collected seven total touchdowns in his first season with the , while backfield mates and combined for 13 scores. Murray also reached 17 fantasy points in a game three times in 2015. He hit that mark 12 times last season.Murray finished with 702 rushing yards this season, which was just 48 more yards than had after contact (650). led the with 769 rushing yards, making it nine straight campaigns that this franchise has been without a 1,000-yard rusher. Its last 1,000-yard back was Deuce McAllister in 2006.Ingram finished the 2015 campaign ranked 15th in fantasy points among running backs for the second straight time. That comes despite the fact that he's mi sed seven games over the past two seasons. In his five years in the NFL, Ingram has played in 14-plus games just once.Despite the fact that 41 running backs were drafted ahead of him based on NFL.com's ADP, still finished 11th in fantasy points at his position in 2015. He also led the NFL in yards after the catch with 737. That's 234 more receiving yards than had all season. Johnson, on average, was drafted 83.86 spots ahead of Woodhead. running back recorded 80 receptions this season, which is the most in franchise history. It was also more than , , and , all of whom had an ADP of Round 4 or higher in NFL.com drafts. Riddick was owned in 5.1 percent of leagues when the season ended. running Clay Buchholz Jersey back recorded 712 rushing yards in his first six NFL starts while was injured. That ranks as the most rushing yards by an undrafted player in his first six career starts since the 1970 merger.The embodied the "Next Man Up" mentality at running back in 2015. Despite losing their star running back to a serious knee ailment in Week 5, the team still tied for the most rushing touchdowns in the NFL (19).In Week 8, four different Kansas City players (, , , ) rushed for a touchdown. This marked the first time since October 2, 1960, when the franchise was known as the Dallas , that four different players rushed for at least one touchdown in the same game for a team.The were the lone NFL team that ran the football on more than 50 percent of their offensive snaps in 2015, which tied for the fewest since 1996.Despite Buffalo's dependence on the run, still finished outside of the top 15 in fantasy points at his position. Of course, that's due in part to his mi sing four games due to injuries. In the 12 games he was active, McCoy averaged 12.2 fantasy points per game. Had he started all 16 contests, he would have projected to finish fourth in fantasy points among all runners.There were 26 wideouts who reached 1,000 receiving yards in 2015, which tied for the most in the era (1999).Six wide receivers scored at least 200 fantasy points, which is one shy of the all-time record of seven set in 1995. led all wide receivers in fantasy points for the second straight season. He recorded four 185-yard receiving games in 2015, which is the most in a single season in NFL history.Based on the games played this season (including the game where he took over for an injured ), Brown would have projected to set NFL single-season records in targets (216), receptions (159) and receiving yards (2,132). His 273.2 fantasy points would have ranked as the third-most among wide receivers in NFL history, trailing just Jerry Rice and Randy Mo s.Brown finished with 246.2 fantasy points in 2015, which ranked him first in points among wide receivers for the second straight season. The last wide receiver to finish first in points at the position in three straight years was Rice (1993-95).Brown has now recorded the most receptions in a two-year span in NFL history (265).Brown and combined for 3,705 receiving yards this season, which is the most by two wide receivers in a single season. It is also more than any team's combined wide receivers combined.As a team, no group of wide receivers had more yards (3,689) this season than the .Jones led the league in receiving yards this season with 1,871, which is the second-most yards in a single season in NFL history behind (2012). Jones also finished second among wideouts in fantasy points, which is the first time he finished within the top seven at the position during his five-year career. wide receiver was owned on the second-most fantasy championship rosters on NFL.com (22.8 percent). While he scored fewer than 10 fantasy points in eight of his first 10 games (71.9 points), Baldwin went on to score 16-plus points in five of his final six contests (119 points).Baldwin had 10 touchdown catches from Weeks 12-15, which tied him with Rice (1987) for the most touchdown catches in a four-game span in a single season in NFL history. Baldwin scored 96.6 fantasy points over that span, which was more than Cobb had for the in his last 13 games combined (80.2). Jr. has recorded a combined 2,755 receiving yards (1,450 in 2015) in his first two NFL seasons. That surpa sed Mo s' previous total for the most receiving yards in a player's first two seasons in NFL history.OBJ has nine career games with at least 140 receiving yards, the most ever by a player in his first two NFL seasons. During this time span, he averaged 15.8 fantasy points per game, the most among wide receivers.Beckham Jr. has also scored the second-most fantasy points (427.30) in his first two seasons among wide receivers in the era, behind only Mo s (449.40).OBJ has mi sed a combined five games in his first two NFL seasons. Mo s played in all 32 games in his first two pro campaigns.In 2015, became the fourth player in NFL history to record 1,400 receiving yards at the age of 22 or younger. The other three were Mo s, and .Robinson scored double-digit fantasy points in 12 games, which was second-most among wide receivers in 2015. Robinson had 14 touchdown receptions, which is the most in a single season in Jacksonville's franchise history. posted a 100-yard receiving game with four different starting quarterbacks (, , and ) this season. He is the first player since at least 1950 to accomplish that feat. got off to a hot start in his rookie season, posting three 100-yard receiving games in Oakland's first six games. That made him the first rookie with three 100-yard receiving games in his team's first six games since Mike Ditka accomplished the feat in 1961.Cooper would post just three more 100-yard performances in his final 10 games. finished with 52 receptions in 2015, the third-most by a rookie in Minnesota's franchise history (Mo s, 1998; , 2009). Diggs also became the first rookie in franchise history to lead the team in receptions. Cris Carter led the in catches in Mo s's rookie campaign.In what was supposed to be a down season at the position, five different tight ends (, , , , ) scored 140-plus fantasy points. That's the most in NFL history.There were also four tight ends (Gronkowski, Olsen, Walker, Barnidge) who recorded 1 Derek Fisher Jersey ,000-plus receiving yards in 2015. That is also the most in NFL history.Out of the top 10 tight ends based on fantasy points this season, seven had an average draft position of Round 12 or later. That list includes Barnidge, and , who weren't even drafted in most leagues.Gronkowski finished first in fantasy points among tight ends with 183.60, which was 25.3 more than the second-best tight end (Barnidge). He also scored 27.4 fantasy points in a Week 1 win over the , which led all tight ends for a single-game performance.Gronkowski's 27.4 points in that contest were more than scored in his last five games played combined.Prior to getting injured in Week 12 against the , Graham was a monumental disappointment for fantasy fans. After being drafted in the fourth round in most NFL.com leagues (31st overall), he finished 11th among tight ends in fantasy points scored per game (6.59).Graham scored two touchdowns and 26.5 fantasy points in his first three games as a member of the . He would score a combined 46 points with no touchdowns in his last eight games played.Olsen is coming off the best statistical season of his career, posting 1,104 yards and seven touchdowns while finishing fourth in fantasy points among tight ends. He's been the model of consistency when it comes to finding the end zone, as Olsen has scored at least five touchdowns in eight consecutive seasons.A total of 44 players were drafted ahead of Olsen on NFL.com this season, a list that includes , , , and .Barnidge was one of the top draft bargains in , as he finished second in points among Derek Law Jersey tight ends despite going undrafted in virtually every league on NFL.com. He joined Kellen Winslow Jr. and r Ozzie Newsome as the only tight ends to finish with 1,000-plus receiving yards in a single season.Barnidge's 79 catches, 1,043 yards and nine touchdowns in 2015 were more than he had recorded in his first seven NFL seasons combined.Eifert mi sed three games in 2015 due to injuries, but he still finished sixth in fantasy points (139.50) at his position. If you project his totals over a full 16 games, he would have recorded 171.69 points. Only Gronkowski would have finished with more among tight ends. Reed was the tight end who appeared on the most NFL.com fantasy championship rosters (20.1 percent) in 2015. Over the final four weeks of the NFL's regular season, no tight end scored more fantasy points (67.80). In fact, Reed's point total was almost double the output of Gronkowski (36.50 points) during that time.Over the last four seasons, at least one kicker has scored 158 or more fantasy points based on NFL.com standard scoring. One kicker () reached that mark in 2015, making this the third year in a row he's finished first at the position. His 159.00 points were more than , , and recorded this season.Gostkowski led the NFL in scoring for the fifth time in his career (151 points), joining r Don Hutson (five) and Gino Cappelletti (five) as the only players to lead the league in points scored at least five times. Also, Gostkowski would have been the 13th-ranked running back, the 16th-ranked wide receiver and the second-highest scoring tight end (behind Gronkowski) based on fantasy points.In Week 4, scored 25 fantasy points against the . That was tied for the third-most fantasy points scored by a kicker in a single game since at least 1999. The best single-game fantasy performance from a kicker came in 2007, when Rob Bironas scored 28 fantasy points for the .Gostkowski (159 points), (150 points) and (147 points) all scored more fantasy points than 's projected season point total based on the production (121.5) in his first nine games. The trio also outscored five of the first 10 overall selections in 2015 drafts based on NFL.com's average draft position. The highest-scoring fantasy defense in 2014 was the with 177 points. The ranked 18th. In 2015, Denver led all defenses with 175 fantasy points. The ranked 13th, scoring 47 fewer points than the previous campaign.The led the NFL in scoring defense (17.3 PPG) for the fourth straight season. The only other team in NFL history to lead the league in scoring defense in four straight seasons is the , who did it five straight times (1953-1957). Despite this streak, Seattle's defense has not finished first in fantasy points among their position once in this span.The defense scored a total of 32 fantasy points in their first six games (5.3 FPPG) of the season, including two games with negative points. In their final 10 games, Kansas City's defense scored 128 fantasy points (12.8 FPPG). That included a two-game stretch of the fantasy postseason (Weeks 14-15) with a combined 35 points ... or three more points than in their first six contests.The defense finished the 2015 season with a league-low 64.00 fantasy points, which was three points fewer than the defense scored in the last four weeks of the season combined (67.00). On the other side of the football, the offense scored the fewest points in the NFL by more than five touchdowns (238).Michael Fabiano is an award-winning analyst on NFL.com and NFL Network and a member of the Sports Writers A sociation (FSWA) . Have a burning question on anything fantasy related? Tweet it to __ or send a question via !