Patriots' running back Jonas Gray was so dominant on Sunday night against the Colts that he's still gaining yards. He finished the game with 199 yards rushing and 4 touchdowns on 38 carries, but an NFL stat correction on Tuesday changed his total to 37 carries for 201 yards and 4 touchdowns - giving him the two extra yards that allowed him to officially have a 200-yard rushing day against the Colts' defense.
The NFL rightly identified a play in the fourth quarter in which the Colts stopped Gray for a loss of two yards, but the Colts were flagged for two penalties on the play. They were offsides, which was declined, and they also had a face mask penalty on Erik Walden, which was accepted. That wiped out the carry for negative two yards by Gray, thus increasing his total to 201 yards - and meaning that zero of his 37 recorded carries went for negative yards.
Ultimately, this doesn't mean much - it's only two yards - but it does put Gray over the 200 mark, which is a nice milestone for the back. In fact, his impressive performance in which he burst on to the scene has garnered plenty of national attention, including landing him on the cover of Sports Illustrated this week:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Jonas Gray is on this week's cover, because... of course he is! <a href="http://t.co/6cz27HfbU0">http://t.co/6cz27HfbU0</a> <a href="http://t.co/CqekXjYQPb">pic.twitter.com/CqekXjYQPb</a></p>— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) <a href="https://twitter.com/SInow/status/534738760119107584">November 18, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
As far as that Colts defense goes? Yeah, it's bad.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>2014 Colts: 1st defense in NFL history to allow a 500-yard passer (Ben) and 200-yard rusher (Gray) in same season. <a href="https://twitter.com/mchappell51">@mchappell51</a></p>— Scott Kacsmar (@FO_ScottKacsmar) <a href="https://twitter.com/FO_ScottKacsmar/status/534870916099223553">November 19, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" lang="en"><p>I can verify 2014 Colts are first team since 1960 to allow a 6 TD passer and 4 TD rusher in the same season. <a href="https://twitter.com/boileralum1">@boileralum1</a></p>— Scott Kacsmar (@FO_ScottKacsmar) <a href="https://twitter.com/FO_ScottKacsmar/status/534879780215488512">November 19, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Colts?src=hash">#Colts</a> Points allowed in last 8 losses: 42 (NE) 51 (PIT) 30 (PHI) 31 (DEN) 43 (NE) 42 (CIN) 40 (ARI) 38 (STL) AVG - 39.6</p>— Scott Kacsmar (@FO_ScottKacsmar) <a href="https://twitter.com/FO_ScottKacsmar/status/534889129314897920">November 19, 2014</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Jonas Gray entered the game with zero career touchdowns and rushed for four against the Colts, becoming the first player since 1921 to rush for four in a game after having zero entering it. He was named the AFC's Offensive Player of the Week for his performance. While he's taken the NFL world by storm this week, he'll face a much tougher task going forward - namely, that he won't be playing against the Colts defense.