1,000-yard rushers are keeping pace with 1,000-yard receivers for a change in the NFL

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Led by free-agent bargains Saquon Barkley and Derrick Henry, the number of big-play running backs is rivaling the number of high-production wide receivers for a change.

With two weeks remaining in the season, there are 11 players who have reached the 1,000-yard milestone in both rushing and receiving, a far cry from the pattern in recent seasons.

The last time there were as many 1,000-yard rushers as receivers in an entire season came in 2010 when there were 17 of each. While that might not happen this season, with more pass catchers nearing the mark than runners, it does figure to be far closer than it has been the last decade when there were more than twice as many receivers (233) hitting the mark than runners (110).

The running renaissance is being led by Barkley and Henry, who have elevated their teams with their big-play ability after signing deals that are far smaller than the ones that go to top wideouts.

The Eagles' Barkley leads the NFL in rushing with 1,838 yards and could become the ninth player in NFL history to reach 2,000 yards in a season. He still has an outside shot at breaking Eric Dickerson's single-season record of 2,105 in a 16-game season in 1984. Barkley needs 268 yards to break that in a 17-game season.

Barkley has been a big-play threat all season, including a 68-yard TD run on Sunday against Washington. He's the first player in NFL history with at least four TD runs of 65 yards or more in the same season.

The Ravens' Henry has 1,636 yards rushing, making this the first season since 2012 with multiple backs topping the 1,600-yard mark. Henry became the fifth player to top 1,500 yards at least four times in a career and is one shy of Barry Sanders' record of five. Dickerson, Walter Payton and Edgerrin James also did it four times.

Washington's Jayden Daniels and Las Vegas' Brock Bowers are on the verge of some record-setting rookie seasons.

Daniels threw five touchdown passes to lead the Commanders to a 36-33 comeback win over Philadelphia that snapped Washington's 98-game losing streak in games the team trailed by at least 13 points in the fourth quarter.

Daniels threw for 258 yards and ran for 81 more, joining 2015 MVP Cam Newton as the only players NFL history with at least 250 yards passing, 75 yards rushing and five TD passes in a game.

Daniels has 737 yards rushing this season and needs just 79 more to break the record of 815 that Robert Griffin III set for Washington in 2012. Daniels is already just the second rookie QB to win 10 starts and produce at least 4,000 yards rushing and passing, joining Andrew Luck, who did it in 2012 for Indianapolis.

Bowers had 11 catches for 99 yards for the Raiders on Sunday to tie Anquan Boldin for the third-most catches in a season by a rookie with 101. Bowers needs five more catches in the final two weeks to break Puka Nacua's record set last season for the Rams. Malik Nabers of the New York Giants also could do it; he has 97 catches this season.

Bowers' 1,067 yards receiving are 9 shy of matching the rookie record for tight ends set by Hall of Famer Mike Ditka in 1961 for Chicago.

In a record-setting season for long kicks, no one has done it quite at the level of Dallas' Brandon Aubrey.

Aubrey has made an NFL-record 14 field goals from at least 50 yards, one more than Houston's Ka'imi Fairbairn has made.

Those two account for 27 of the record 173 field goals of at least 50 yards, beating the record of 158 set just last season. There already have been twice as many field goals from at least 50 yards this season as there were as recently as 2019, when there were just 84.

Aubrey made two kicks from 58 yards, one from 53 and another from 49 this past week, to set another record. His 36 made field goals have combined for 1,636 yards for the most yards on made field goals in any season, topping Justin Tucker’s 1,601 in 2016 for Baltimore.

San Francisco's latest loss extended an odd streak of feast or famine for the franchise after the 49ers were assured of a losing season.

Over the last 22 seasons, San Francisco has had a winning record just seven times but made it to the NFC title game or Super Bowl in each of those seasons.

The Niners are tied for the ninth-fewest seasons with a winning record in that span but have the second-most conference championship game appearances, trailing only the 12 for New England.

Falling flat following a Super Bowl loss isn't new for the 49ers, who went 6-10 in 2020, the season after losing to Kansas City in the Super Bowl.

The only other teams in the last 17 seasons to have a losing record the season after playing in the Super Bowl are the 2022 Rams (5-12) and the 2016 Panthers (6-10).

Green Bay delivered the NFL's first shutout of the season.

The Packers beat New Orleans 34-0 on Monday night to make sure the 2024 season wouldn't be the first in NFL history without a shutout.

The previous low in any season was two, which has happened five times overall and twice in the Super Bowl era, in 2015 and 1994.

This was the latest in a season for the first shutout, with the NFL having never gone more than eight weeks into a campaign without a team getting blanked. That last happened in 2010.

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Green Bay Packers safety Zayne Anderson (39) celebrates his interception during the second half of an NFL football game against the New Orleans Saints, Monday, Dec. 23, 2024, in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)

San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan leaves the field at the end of an NFL football game against the Miami Dolphins, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024, in Miami Gardens, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Dallas Cowboys place kicker Brandon Aubrey (17) kicks a field goal as punter Bryan Anger (5) holds, under pressure from Tampa Bay Buccaneers cornerback Zyon McCollum (27) in the first half of an NFL football game in Arlington, Texas, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeffrey McWhorter)

Las Vegas Raiders tight end Brock Bowers (89) runs with the ball against Jacksonville Jaguars cornerback Jarrian Jones (22) during the second half of an NFL football game Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/David Becker)

Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels (5) running with the ball during the second half of an NFL football game against the Philadelphia Eagles, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024, in Landover, Md. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

Baltimore Ravens running back Derrick Henry busts a long run against the Pittsburgh Steelers during the second half of an NFL football game, Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley (26) running with the ball during the first half of an NFL football game against the Washington Commanders, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024, in Landover, Md. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)

An Azerbaijani airliner with 67 people onboard crashed Wednesday near the Kazakhstani city of Aktau, leaving at least 32 survivors, according to officials. More than 30 people may be dead.

The plane was en route from the Azerbaijani capital of Baku to the Russian city of Grozny in the North Caucasus.

Kazakhstan's Emergency Ministry said in a Telegram statement that those onboard included five crew. A total of 29 survivors, including two children, have been hospitalized, the ministry told Russia's state news agency, RIA Novosti.

Another Russian news agency, Interfax quoted medical workers as saying that four bodies have been recovered and emergency workers at the scene as saying that both pilots, according to a preliminary assessment, died in the crash.

The Embraer 190 aircraft made an emergency landing 3 km from the city, Azerbaijan Airlines said earlier.

Kazakhstan’s Emergency Ministry initially said 25 people survived the crash, later revising that number to 27, 28, and then 29 as the search and rescue operation continued at the site of the crash, bringing the supposed death toll down.

The Prosecutor General's Office in Azerbaijan later reported that at least 32 people survived the crash, adding that the number wasn't final. Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry said in a statement that some of them were in critical condition.

The number of survivors could mean that over 30 people may be dead.

According to Kazakhstani officials, those aboard the plane included 42 Azerbaijani citizens, 16 Russian nationals, six Kazakhstani and three Kyrgyzstani citizens, it said.

RIA Novosti quoted Russia’s civil aviation authority, Rosaviatsia, as saying that preliminary information showed that the pilot had chosen to divert to Kazakhstan's Aktau after a bird strike on the aircraft led to “an emergency situation on board”.

Mobile phone footage circulating online appeared to show the aircraft making a steep descent before smashing into the ground in a fireball. Other footage showed part of its fuselage ripped away from the wings and the rest of the aircraft, lying upside in the grass. The footage corresponded to the plane’s colors and its registration number.

Some of the videos posted on social media showed survivors dragging fellow passengers away from the wreckage of the plane.

Flight-tracking data from FlightRadar24.com showed the aircraft making what appeared to be a figure-right once nearing the airport in Aktau, its altitude moving up and down substantially over the last minutes of the flight before impacting the ground.

FlightRadar24 separately said in an online post that the aircraft had faced “strong GPS jamming” which “ made the aircraft transmit bad ADS-B data”, referring to the information that allows flight-tracking websites to follow planes in flight. Russia has been blamed in the past for jamming GPS transmissions in the wider region.

In a statement, Azerbaijan Airlines said it would keep members of the public updated and changed its social media banners to solid black. It also said that it would suspend flights between Baku and Grozny, as well as between Baku and the city of Makhachkala in Russia's North Caucasus, until its investigation into the crash had been concluded.

Azerbaijan’s state news agency, Azertac, said that an official delegation consisting of Azerbaijan’s emergency situations minister, the country’s deputy general prosecutor, and the vice president of Azerbaijan Airlines had been dispatched to Aktau to conduct an “on-site investigation”.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, who had been traveling to Russia, returned to Azerbaijan on hearing news of the crash, the president’s press service said. Aliyev was due to attend an informal meeting of leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States, a bloc of former Soviet countries founded after the collapse of the Soviet Union, in St. Petersburg.

Aliyev expressed his condolences to the families of the victims in a statement on social media. “It is with deep sadness that I express my condolences to the families of the victims and wish a speedy recovery to those injured,” he wrote.

He also signed a decree declaring Dec. 26 a day of mourning in Azerbaijan.

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to Aliyev on the phone and expressed his condolences, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

Speaking at the CIS meeting in St. Petersburg, Putin also said that Russia's Emergency Ministry sent a plane with equipment and medical workers to Kazakhstan to assist with the aftermath of the crash.

Kazakhstani, Azerbaijani and Russian authorities said they were investigating the crash. Embraer told The Associated Press in a statement that the company is “ready to assist all relevant authorities."

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Associated Press writers Jon Gambrell in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Aida Sultanova in London contributed to this report.

The wreckage of Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 lays on the ground near the airport of Aktau, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Azamat Sarsenbayev)

The wreckage of Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 lays on the ground near the airport of Aktau, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Azamat Sarsenbayev)

The wreckage of Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 lays on the ground near the airport of Aktau, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Azamat Sarsenbayev)

The wreckage of Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 lays on the ground near the airport of Aktau, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Azamat Sarsenbayev)

In this photo taken from a video released by the administration of Mangystau region, the wreckage of Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 lies on the ground near the airport of Aktau, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024. (The Administration of Mangystau Region via AP)

In this photo taken from a video released by the administration of Mangystau region, the wreckage of Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 lies on the ground near the airport of Aktau, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024. (The Administration of Mangystau Region via AP)

The wreckage of Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 lays on the ground near the airport of Aktau, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024. (AP Photo)

The wreckage of Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 lays on the ground near the airport of Aktau, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Dec. 25, 2024. (AP Photo)