Only one player in NFL history has had a game with at least 150 rushing yards and five receptions sooner in his career than Detroit Lions running back Jahmyr Gibbs – Eric Dickerson 40 years ago on his way to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

After Gibbs ran for 152 yards and one touchdown on 26 carries and caught five passes for 37 yards in his sixth NFL game — the Lions’ 26-14 victory over the Las Vegas Raiders — Detroit coach Dan Campbell said the audience who tuned in for the NFL’s “Monday Night Football” had seen only “the tip of the iceberg” of the former Alabama running back.

“Every week, he’s just gotten a little bit better and a little bit better,” Campbell said. “And I thought last week was his best game, and this week certainly surpassed that. I think the more he gains his confidence in his own abilities in this league, he’s just going to continue to grow, and I think this was kind of the tip of the iceberg, if you will, for what he is able to do and going to be able to do, so really proud of him.”

Gibbs joined the Lions as the 12th selection in the NFL Draft on April 27, an early call that surprised even him. But Detroit remade its running-back depth chart in the offseason, trading D’Andre Swift to the Philadelphia Eagles two days after drafting Gibbs and signing David Montgomery from the Chicago Bears while losing Jamaal Williams to the New Orleans Saints in free agency.

Gibbs and Montgomery have been available in the same game three times this season. Gibbs missed two games with a hamstring injury. Montgomery has been out for three games, including the past two with a rib injury.

In the three games he’s played with Montgomery, Gibbs has 99 yards on 22 rushing attempts and 68 yards on 16 receptions. In the three games that Montgomery has missed, Gibbs has 300 yards and two touchdowns on 54 carries and 97 yards on 16 receptions.

“The more reps you get, you’re going to get more comfortable in the league,” Gibbs said. “I feel like in the beginning I was playing too fast. I was a little bit nervous and stuff. These two games helped me to progress as a player, slowed me down a little bit with my reads and all that.”

With Montgomery outweighing Gibbs by 25 pounds and the rookie coming into the NFL after catching 44 passes at Alabama in 2022, the Lions’ backfield pairing had the look of a thunder-and-lightning pairing or at least a between-the-tackles/change-of-pace duo.

Campbell said Detroit did not look at its primary ball-carriers that way.

“We’ve never felt like he was just an outside back,” Campbell said of Gibbs. “Here’s what the allure of some of the outside stuff is his speed. But sometimes he can use his speed to go downhill right now. It’s a little bit quicker to go here than it is to go here and then turn back up. We don’t feel like he’s some finesse back and that’s not his deal and he runs on his tippy toes. We think he can do it all. We think he’s a pretty good gun runner, but certainly he can run out of the dot. We feel like he’s pretty versatile that way.”

At 6-2, the Lions already have a two-game lead in the NFC North and the second-best record in the conference.

Detroit has entered its bye week. The Lions return to action on Nov. 12, when they play the Los Angeles Chargers at 3:05 p.m. CST at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California.

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Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.