PRO FOOTBALL : SPOTLIGHT / A GLANCE AT THIS WEEK IN THE NFL

TOP PERFORMANCES

Passing

Quarterback, Team Att. Cmp. Yds. TD JOE MONTANA, 49ers 34 25 428 5 DAN MARINO, Dolphins 55 33 427 3 DON MAJKOWSKI, Packers 43 26 335 2 KEN O’BRIEN, Jets 37 27 329 3 JIM KELLY, Bills 29 17 363 5 WARREN MOON, Oilers 42 28 338 1 MIKE TOMZCAK, Bears 25 17 290 1

Rushing

Player, Team Car. Yds. TD GREG BELL, Rams 28 221 2 BARRY SANDERS, Lions 18 126 1 NEAL ANDERSON, Bears 16 116 1 CHRISTIAN OKOYE, Chiefs 16 112 0 JAMIE MORRIS, Redskins 26 100 1

Receiving

Player, Team No. Yds. TD AL TOON, Jets 10 159 1 TROY STRADFORD, Dolphins 8 96 0 STERLING SHARPE, PACKERS 8 164 1 J.T. SMITH, Cardinals 8 87 1 JERRY RICE, 49ers 6 136 1 ART MONK, Redskins 6 114 0 MARK DUPER, Dolphins 6 113 0 ANDRE REED, Bills 5 135 2 MARK CARRIER, Buccaneers 5 120 0 MERVYN FERNANDEZ, Raiders 4 124 1

BIG PLAYS

Rod Bernstine broke three tackles on a 32-yard touchdown run with 3:13 remaining to seal San Diego’s 21-6 victory over Kansas City.

Buffalo quarterback Jim Kelly, who passed for five touchdowns in all, threw a 28-yard scoring pass to Andre Reed as the Bills defeated Houston, 47-41 in overtime.

Neal Anderson raced 53 yards for a touchdown early in the third quarter as Chicago extended its 20-13 halftime lead over Detroit and went on to post a 47-27 win.

Earnest Byner ran 12 yards for a touchdown on his first carry as a member of the Washington Redskins in a 30-7 victory over Dallas.

STRONG FINISHES

Quarterback Ken O’Brien directed the Jets to touchdowns on all four of their second-half possessions, throwing for three scores in New York’s 40-33 victory over Miami. O’Brien hit Roger Vick from 11 yards for the winning score with 1:29 left. He also connected with Johnny Hector for a 23-yard touchdown and Al Toon for a 37-yard score.

Joe Montana threw for 428 yards and five touchdowns, four in the fourth quarter, during which San Francisco twice overcame 11-point deficits. Montana hit John Taylor for 70 yards, Tom Rathman for eight, Brent Jones for 24 and clinched it with 2:02 left with a 33-yard pass to Jerry Rice, to whom he had thrown a 68-yard TD pass on the game’s first series.

Don Majkowski, who had brought the Packers back from a 21-0 deficit to a 35-34 win over New Orleans the previous Sunday, threw for 198 yards and two touchdowns in the second half of a 41-38 loss to the Rams.

STREAKS

Miami quarterback Dan Marino extended his league-record streak of consecutive games without being sacked to 15 in a 40-33 loss to the New York Jets. Marino has attempted 630 passes in that span.

After not being sacked in the first two games, Phoenix quarterback Gary Hogeboom was trapped five times by the New York Giants in a 35-7 loss. One sack, by Gary Reasons, resulted in a third-quarter safety and another by Leonard Marshall caused a near-safety.

Heading into tonight’s game against Cleveland in Riverfront Stadium, the Cincinnati Bengals have won 11 in a row at home but are 5-10 on Monday nights . . . Tampa Bay’s 20-10 victory over New Orleans was its first victory over the Saints since 1982 . . . Indianapolis posted its 10th consecutive victory over Atlanta.

Atlanta quarterback Chris Miller has not thrown an interception in his last 115 passes . . . Buffalo, which had lost five times in a row to the Oilers in Houston before Sunday’s 47-41 win, had not won in the Astrodome since 1966 . . . The Bears defeated Detroit for the 10th consecutive time . . . The Bears’ streak against the Lions is exceeded only by their 12-game winning streak against Tampa Bay.

Indianapolis running back Eric Dickerson totaled 80 yards rushing and failed to break a team record of 16 consecutive games with at least 100 yards he shares with former Colt Lydell Mitchell.

IN QUOTES

Minnesota Coach Jerry Burns after the Vikings were stunned by Pittsburgh, 27-14: “You can tell them, you can forewarn them but then it’s up to the players. It’s like when you can see all the warning signs on the road but you still run your car into a tree. What are you going to do?”

Add Burns: “I guess we’re not the No. 1 defense in the National Conference anymore.”

San Francisco Coach George Seifert after Joe Montana led the 49ers to a come-from-behind, 38-28 victory over Philadelphia: “I think we’ve all seen it written that Joe is the finest comeback quarterback in the game. I think he showed it today. His cool under pressure is unbelievable. His ribs were taped up, he was hurting, but he still got outside and got the job done.”

From Philadelphia Coach Buddy Ryan: “I guess they showed us why they’re world champs. Normally when you score 28 points you should win, but not when you’re up against a guy like Montana today.”

Jerrol Williams, rookie linebacker for Pittsburgh after the Steelers’ 27-14 victory over Minnesota: “We just got tired of taking the flak from people about losing. We knew we could play, we just had to get it together. It wasn’t a question of if we could play, but when we would play.”

STAR STRUCK

Actress Elizabeth Taylor got veteran NFL referee Pat Haggerty so rattled on Sunday that he let her call the opening coin toss at the NFC East Division game between Washington and Dallas.

At that point, however, the Redskins stepped in to correct the call.

“Hey, wait a minute, we’re supposed to call the toss. We’re the visitors,” the Redskins shouted after Taylor, a guest of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, called heads on Haggerty’s toss.

Embarrassed, Haggerty told Taylor: “You’ve got me all shook up.”

Haggerty tossed the coin again and let the Redskins make the call, which they correctly predicted as heads.

The original game plan had been for Taylor, in town promoting her line of perfume, to flip the coin.

INJURIES

Running back Stump Mitchell of Phoenix had to leave the game with the New York Giants after taking a hit on his left knee. Former Cardinal running back Ottis Anderson, now with the Giants, held Mitchell’s hand as his friend was being treated on the sidelines. “I told him that I love him and I wished him well,” said Anderson, who kissed Mitchell on the head just before he was taken off the field.

Quarterback Chris Chandler of Indianapolis suffered ligament damage in his left knee and said he doubts he can play next weekend. The Colts’ Eric Dickerson suffered a mild hamstring pull.

Starting quarterback Bobby Hebert suffered a concussion in the first quarter on a late hit by Tampa Bay safety Mark Robinson, but returned in the third quarter when backup John Fourcade, limping on a bad ankle, had a pass picked off by Robinson.

Running back Gerald Riggs of Washington had to sit out the second half of the Redskins’ 30-7 win over Dallas because of a bruised chest.

Detroit’s Barry Sanders, the 1988 Heisman Trophy winner, carried 18 times for 126 yards and a touchdown before leaving the game with bruised ribs in the third quarter of the Lions’ 47-27 loss to Chicago.

TONIGHT’S GAME

Cleveland at Cincinnati, 6 p.m.--Cleveland quarterback Bernie Kosar and Cincinnati’s Boomer Esiason are the top-ranked passers in the American Conference. But their defenses have hogged the spotlight so far.

The Browns’ restructured “attack” defense leads the league in forcing turnovers and has given up only 24 points in two games--the lowest total in the conference. The Bengals’ defense is next (27).

Kosar is 4-2 against the Bengals, completing 60 percent of his passes with six touchdowns. In two meetings last season, however, Kosar did not throw a touchdown pass and was intercepted twice.

The Bengals (1-1) need a victory to pull even with Cleveland (2-0) in the AFC Central Division. The Bengals will be without fullback Ickey Woods, who might be lost for the season after undergoing knee surgery this week.