Jordan Ta’amu’s 300-yard performance highlights UFL Week 5 storylines

At the midpoint of 2025 UFL Season, DC defenders QB Jordan Ta’amu has become the best player in the league.

Ta’amu continued his printing game during the weekend, taking his team back from a 15-point deficit in the second medium to achieve a 37-33 return victory over Arlington’s renegades on Sunday.

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Ta’amu launched for a 308 yards of the league and ran for 37 more and a score. With his effort, Ta’amu helped lead the defenders to the greatest victory in the history of UFL. The Ole Miss product leads the League in Air Yardas (1,213) and TouchDowns passengers (nine).

“That’s incredible,” Ta’amu said after the game. “I love making history.”

The defenders recovered from an impressive defeat of week 4 to San Antonio Brahmas (1-4) and improved the best 4-1 of the League in the year with victory. Meanwhile, Arlington fell to 3-2, also with the defensive star Ajene Harris publishing six combined cups, an interception and a forced loose ball.

In another action, the Memphis Showboats (1-4) won his first victory of the season, 24-20, in excess against the defending champion Birmingham stallions (3-2) Friday. Otherwise, the St. Louis Battlehawks (3-2) hero by little of the Michigan Panthers (3-2) Saturday 32-27.

Closing things, the Houston Roughnecks (2-3) He took care of businesses against the Brahmas (1-4) on Sunday 27-3.

Here is a look at other stories of week 5:

Hakeem Butler Shines in Bow Win for Battlehawks

In his first return game since week 1 after dealing with a persistent problem of hamstrings, Butler showed why he is the offensive player of the current UFL year. The large body receiver represented two long touchdowns for St. Louis-one for 67 yards and the other in an inverse pass of Blake Jackson’s partner for 57 yards, since the Battlehawks remained in 32-27 in the United States.

“It was fun to be there,” Butler said after the game. “I was more ecstatic by the blockade and just be hitting the boys than even catching the ball.”

Making his first openings instead of an injured Manny Wilkins, the QB Max Duggan was 9 of 12 for 124 aerial yards and a touchdown. Duggan also rumbled for 70 yards by land and two scores.

The Michigan corridor, Taua Taua, totaled 74 yards and two touchdowns in the defeat, while the Panthers QB Bryce Perkins continued their impressive game, completing 21 or 25 passes for 235 yards and two touchdowns.

Explosive plays dominate week 5

Butler’s great moves were part of a bigger trend or UFL offenses that create explosive plays over the weekend. The eight teams were combined for a maximum of 59 plays of more than 20 yards in week 5.

Those numbers included 10 touchdowns of at least 20 yards.

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The score continues to rise too. After averaging 40.5 points combined in week 4, the games in week 5 averaged a combined total or 50.8 points per contest. The crimes seem to have Caht with the defenses when we enter the second half of the season.

QB Winn dressing table Showboats guide to win for the first time

He took longer to do it, but Memphis’s interim coach Jim Turner took his team to his first victory, a 24-20 victory on Friday night over Birmingham. In his first start, Winn finished 17 of 29 by 235 yards high by a 78 -yards from Monster A Deerson in the opening driving and without interceptions.

The great play for the showboats was a 108-yard touchdown return in a 63-yards lost field of Birmingham Harrison Mevis’s kicking at the end of the first half, which gave Memphis a 17-3 advantage in part time.

The stallions surpassed the 17-3 showbats in the second half to force extra time. However, Birmingham could not become any of his two -point attempts in extra time, while Memphis had two successful two -point conversions.

Making its first start of the season for the stallions, QB Cookus completed 15 or 33 passes for 145 yards, two touchdown passes and an interception.

What about the stallions?

After a three -game winning streak, Birmingham lost her second game of the season this week at home against the showboats previously without victories.

Last season, the stallions lost only one game throughout the year on their way to a third consecutive title of the Spring Football Championship. Birmingham lost only four games in the last three years by entering the UFL 2025 campaign. However, it seems that other teams have reached the full list of talent that Birmingham coach of Birmingham, Skip Holtz, has gathered.

The careless injuries and the game have also affected the stallions, who are tied in the leadership of the league in gifts (nine) and are third in the league with 38 sanctions accepted for 290 yards.

“I think there is much more parity, but we have also had 10 headlines that lose a game,” said Holtz. “We are in our third Quarterback after four games. There is no continuity. I feel that every week we are starting again. There are all these distractions … My frustration is not so lost, do you know what I mean?

“It’s not”, well, everyone is updating. “We have to obtain some consistency, and that is probably the bone that the differentiation between this team and the teams adjusts in years.”

Roughnecks are rolling

Curtis Johnson has officially gathered his first two -game winning streak as a chief coach at the UFL. After going 1-9 last season and losing their first three games this year, the Roughnecks improved 2-3 with a convincing road victory over the Brahmas.

With the San Antonio fighting offensive, the local product Kellen Mouth was replaced in quartback by the guarantees Jarrett guarantees in the third quarter. Gareran was not much better, completing 6 or 15 passes for 29 yards.

However, Houston’s QB Jalan McClendon had another solid performance, with 22 of 32 passes for 171 yards. Defensively, the Roughnecks kept the Brahmas to 118 total yards in their first game.

“We are in a surprising distance to achieve our goal,” said Johnson. “And I think we have definitely triggered some impulse (in our team). It’s not just winning, but we won it. It was quite convincing today.”

Eric D. Williams He has reported about the NFL for more than a decade, covering the Los Angeles Rams for Sports Illustrated, Los Angeles Chargers for ESPN and the Seattle Seahawks for Tacoma News Tribune. Follow it in @Reric_d_williams.

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