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About three hours Thursday Night Football matchup between the San Francisco 49ers and Oakland Raiders, it was announced that C.J. Beathard would not be able to play and Nick Mullens would get his first NFL start for the 49ers at quarterback. The undrafted second-year player started the year on the 49ers' practice squad, but after Jimmy Garoppolo's ACL tear and beathard's hand injury, he was thrust into the primetime spotlight.
Let's take a look at the numbers at an exciting 34-3 win for the 49ers and their young quarterback and an ugly loss for the Raiders.
49ers by the numbers
2-7: The 49ers won their second game of the year! The first came in Week 2 with Garoppolo at quarterback and it was not until Week 9 that the 49ers got to win No. 2 with Mullens. Meanwhile, the Raiders are a sad 1-7.
75: In his first-ever NFL regular-season start, Mullens orchestrated a six-play, 75 yard touchdown drive to start the game. His first throw was an 11 yard pbad to Marquise Goodwin, and the drive was capped with a 24-yard touchdown pbad to Pierre Garcon. It was the first of many impressive drives for Mullens on the night.
7: Pbades it took before Mullens threw his first incompletion. He was six of six to start the game.
141.1: Mullens finished the first half with a remarkable pbad rating. He completed 12 of 17 pbading attempts for 167 yards, and two touchdowns through two quarters. Meanwhile, Derek Carr was 11 of 15 for 116 yards and a 95.4 pbad rating in the first half. Who's the undrafted player in his first start and who's the quarterback we have $ 125 million contract?
71: After San Francisco smoked and recovered the ball on the first play of the second half, Mullens threw an amazing 71-yard pbad to George Kittle (which he caught with one hand) and then threw the tight end to a five-yard touchdown pbad two plays later.
3: The number of touchdown pbades Mullens threw in the 49ers' win, which is the same number of touchdown pbades the Bills have this season.
151.9: Somehow, Mullens would improve on his first-half rating and finished the game just a few points shy of a perfect rating. Southern Mississippi Quarterback Finished 16 of 22 pbading for 262 yards and three touchdowns. And, a couple of those incompletions were drops from his receivers.
Raiders by the numbers
3: The number of points and punts for the Raiders in the first half.
1: Scoring Drives for the Raiders, who scored a field goal on their day and went on to six times, take a knee to the end, turn the ball over on the down, and miss a field goal.
2: The number of quarterbacks who played on Thursday for the Raiders. Oakland had backup AJ McCarron enter the game with 11:45 remaining in the fourth quarter. He would not do anything, just one pbad for eight yards on three attempts.
14.4: The combined pbading ratings of Carr (95.1) and McCarron (42.4) was 137.5, 14.4 less than that of Mullens' pbading rating.
20: The Raiders had 20 total net yards (242) than Mullens had pbading yards (262).
34-3: The final score in a memorable debut for Mullens and another sad chapter in the Raiders' first season under head coach Jon Gruden.
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