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By the numbers: Week 14

3: Lions players with at least 10 tackles in Sunday's loss to Minnesota – Safety Tracy Walker (13), linebacker Jahlani Tavai (11) and safety Tavon Wilson (11). Tavai is the first rookie linebacker to have multiple 10-plus-tackle games since Ernie Sims in 2006.

Minus-3: Detroit's turnover differential on the season, which is tied for 20th in the league. How important is this stat? Here are the teams that rank in the top 10 in turnover differential, and their records: New England: plus-19 (10-3), Pittsburgh: plus-12 (8-5), Green Bay: plus-11 (10-3), New Orleans: plus-11 (10-3), Seattle: plus-11 (10-3), Baltimore: plus-8 (11-2), Kansas City: plus-7 (9-4), San Francisco: plus-6 (11-2), Tennessee: plus-5 (8-5), Minnesota: plus-5 (9-4).

7.0: Sacks on the year for defensive end Trey Flowers, which ranks in the top 20 in the NFC. He's just a half sack away from tying his career high of 7.5 sacks in 2018. Detroit squares up against the league's leading sacker this Sunday in Tampa Bay's Shaq Barrett (15.0).

8: Rushing yards needed by running back Bo Scarbrough (301) to pass Kerryon Johnson (308) as Detroit's leading rusher on the year. The Lions have five players – Johnson, Scarbrough, J.D. McKissic (203), Ty Johnson (185) and Jeff Driskel (151) – with at least 150 rushing yards on the season.

10: Wide receiver Kenny Golladay caught his 10th touchdown of the year vs. the Vikings. That leads the NFL and is one more than teammate Marvin Jones Jr. and Tampa Bay's Chris Godwin (9). With the Lions hosting the Bucs this week, the top three receiving touchdown leaders will be at Ford Field Sunday. Jones was placed on IR Tuesday, so his touchdown total will end at 9.

Golladay (1,008) and Godwin (1,212) are also just two of the seven receivers in the NFL with at least 1,000 yards on the year.

20.6: Percent of the time this season the Lions have blitzed on 3rd and 5-plus yards, according to NFL Matchup statistics, which is the third fewest in the NFL behind Pittsburgh (19.2 percent) and Carolina (17.2). Baltimore has the league's highest percentage at 62.7 percent.

61.2: Percent of the time an opponent scores a touchdown on the Lions once reaching the red zone. Only Tennessee (64.9), Houston (67.5) and Oakland (68.1) allow a higher percentage of red zone touchdowns.

70: Walker is the third player in team history with 70 tackles, five defended passes, one interception and one forced fumble in either of their first two seasons.

90.0: Rushing yards allowed per game in Detroit's last five contests, which ranks sixth in the NFL. That number was 133.4 through their first eight games. Detroit's defense has been much better against the run over their last five.

106.0: Despite missing the last five games due to a back injury, quarterback Matthew Stafford's 106.0 passer rating is still the sixth highest in the NFL.

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