NFL Week 7 winners: Saquon Barkley feasts on Giants, Jared Goff shines again

Cleveland Browns RB Nick Chubb

Yes, his team lost and he did not have huge numbers. But the fact that Chubb was back on the field and scored a touchdown a little more than a year after a devastating leg injury is a huge win for him and the team. The season might very well be finished when it comes to making the playoffs, but getting Chubb back is a small silver lining. 

Green Bay Packers pass defense

In what might have been one of the best quarterback matchups of the week, with Houston's C.J. Stroud going against Green Bay's Jordan Love, it was the Packers that ended up coming out on top with a 24-22 win. The Packers pass defense did an outstanding job in shutting down Stroud, limiting him to just 85 yards passing and no touchdowns while also sacking him four times. The Texans were dealing with some big injuries at wide receiver and the Packers did an outstanding job to take advantage of that and not allow Stroud or Stefon Diggs to beat them. 

Detroit Lions QB Jared Goff

Goff is not only playing the best football of his career, he is on one of the best four-game runs you could ever hope to see from any NFL quarterback.

He entered Sunday's game against the Minnesota Vikings with a passer rating over 100 in each of his previous three games, including back-to-back games with a passer rating over 150. He posted a 140.0 mark in Sunday's 31-29 win over the Minnesota Vikings, completing 22-of-25 passes for 280 yards, two touchdowns and zero interceptions. 

That included a game-winning drive in the closing two minutes to set up Jake Bates' 44-yard game-winning field goal.

With the win the Lions moved to 5-1 and took over first place in the NFC North by way of tiebreaker due to their head-to-head win against Vikings.

Washington Commanders

It is never a positive when your young franchise quarterback leaves the game with an injury, as Jayden Daniels did on Sunday afternoon for the Commanders.

What is a positive, though, is when you still have the depth to bounce back from that and beat another NFL team by a 40-7 margin. Even if that team is the worst in the NFL. That is still something. The Commanders are not just a team that lucked into a good quarterback situation. They are now a good team.

Kansas City Chiefs defense

It is time to adjust your expectations for what the Kansas City Chiefs are as a football team. Quarterback Patrick Mahomes is still one of the best players in football and can make plays when they need him to make them and win them a game. This is now a defensive team, though. The back-to-back defending champions showed that again on Sunday with a dominant defensive performance that saw them limit the 49ers offense to just a pair of touchdowns in a 28-18 win while intercepting Brock Purdy three times.

Defense took the Chiefs to the Super Bowl a year ago. It might take them back again this season.