NFL panic season has arrived early.

It’s only Week 5, barely October; the leaves on the trees in my northern New Jersey backyard are still green, and already we’ve got everyone acting like it’s January.

Ja’Marr Chase is yelling at his head coach, and if things continue to spiral in Cincinnati, you will get to see a lot more of these dustups, thanks to the Bengals’ brutal upcoming prime-time schedule. The Jets’ Aaron Glenn is screaming so loudly through the locker room walls that if he were staying at an Airbnb, he’d be blacklisted. Robert Saleh and Liam Coen are jawing on the field like two dads at a youth soccer match.

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Who says, “I’ll f— your world up?”

I know who … stressed-out people do. (My sister-in-law Karen has four babies under 7, so I get it.)

Chicago’s Ben Johnson did his best Gregg Popovich impersonation, staring lasers through a sideline reporter during a halftime interview, and on the opposite end of the spectrum, Giants head coach Brian Daboll almost made out with Jaxson Dart, like a scene in “The Notebook,” not long after screaming, “That’s our guy!”

This was only in the past week.

The NFL is a mood, and the mood right now is panic.

So, when you see the yelling, the tweeting, the kissing, the playoff-meltdown energy, just remember: It’s only Week 5.

This week, I’ll tell you what I’m hearing on:

A jarring day for Mac Jones

Good to be boring

Philly birds want to be fed

Minnesota’s QB patience

The K.C. receiver “better than any trade”

Is MetLife turf really that bad?

Why it’s King Henry time in Baltimore

Denver says no to the “L Word”

Mac Jones faced more than the Rams

By the end of Thursday night, San Francisco’s backup quarterback Mac Jones had dragged the 49ers past the Rams and into first place in the NFC West. He did it while cramping in both his legs and arms, throwing up, downing three bananas and nursing a sore knee.

And that wasn’t even the wildest part of his day.

That morning at the team hotel in Marina del Rey, Jones told teammates he was on his balcony when he looked out at the water and saw a floating dead body. Someone called the police. As the 49ers loaded buses for the stadium, players watched investigators and even a coroner’s van pu