Surprise, surprise.

This is the NFL six weeks into the season: Baker Mayfield is playing like the league’s MVP, the Indianapolis Colts are sitting atop the AFC and the Baltimore Ravens — a team that has made the playoffs six times in the last seven years — is tied for the second-worst record in football at 1-5. Don’t forget the Pittsburgh Steelers and their nearly 42-year-old quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who are now 4-1 and running away with the AFC North, a division the franchise hasn’t won since 2020.

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So far, chaos reigns. So do comebacks. Six weeks in, there have been 27 game-winning scores in the final three minutes of regulation or overtime, the most ever at this point in a season.

The Los Angeles Chargers used one of those comebacks to beat the Miami Dolphins and send Mike McDaniel’s team to 1-5, leading quarterback Tua Tagovailoa to offer some stunning revelations about the state of his team after the loss.

The New York Jets, meanwhile, are desperate for a change that doesn’t seem to be coming. Aaron Glenn is now 0-6 to begin his head coaching tenure after his team slogged through one of the worst passing days the NFL has seen in a quarter-century.

Mayfield’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers are one of two 5-1 teams through Sunday (the 4-1 Buffalo Bills visit the Atlanta Falcons on Monday night). The other is the Colts, who scraped their way past the Arizona Cardinals, 31-27, on a truly bizarre day for the home team. Colts backup quarterback Anthony Richardson suffered an eye injury after an accident with a stretching band in the pregame dressing room, and then starting cornerback Charvarius Ward collided with tight end Drew Ogletree during warmups, sidel