As the season drags on and the playoff picture begins to take focus, the 2025 NFL campaign is shaping up to be a year marked by a changing of the guard.

More than half of the league’s current division leaders are teams on a 5-plus-year division championship drought.

With Thanksgiving drawing near and the long grind of the season starting to take its toll, time will tell which of these contenders has the moxie to take it across the finish line.

Here’s what you may have missed on Week 11’s Sunday.

The day began with a piece of NFL history in Madrid. The Miami Dolphins and Washington Commanders met in the league’s first ever regular season game in Spain.

A general view shows the Santiago Bernabéu stadium before the NFL game between Miami Dolphins and Washington Commanders on November 16. Oscare Del Pozo/AFP/Getty Images

Playing at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, the home ground of European soccer giant Real Madrid, the Dolphins prevailed over the Commanders 16-13 in overtime.

The game featured plenty of kicking – an ironic turn of events in the soccer-mad nation – as the Dolphins and Commanders combined for five field goals and just two touchdowns.

In the end, it was a 29-yard kick in OT from Miami’s Riley Patterson that lifted the Dolphins to the win.

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In one of the league’s most heated rivalries, the Pittsburgh Steelers blasted the Cincinnati Bengals 34-12 to press their advant

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