Josh Allen ran for a 26-yard landing on fourth down with 2:17 left, sealing the Buffalo Payments’ 30-21 win over the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs on Sunday and handing the two-time defending Tremendous Bowl champions their first lack of the season.
James Prepare dinner rushed for 2 touchdowns and Allen threw a 12-yard TD go to Curtis Samuel for Buffalo (9-2), which closed the hole on Kansas Metropolis (9-1) within the race for the AFC’s high seed.
Patrick Mahomes and Chiefs had been the NFL’s final undefeated crew and eventually ran out methods to eke out one-score victories and overcome second-half deficits. The Chiefs had received 15 straight, together with playoffs, since they fell 20-14 to the Las Vegas Raiders on 17 December 2023.
The Payments have received six straight and moved nearer to their sixth straight AFC East title.
Inexperienced Bay Packers 20-19 Chicago Bears
Jordan Love ran for a go-ahead landing within the closing minutes, and the Inexperienced Bay Packers held on to beat the Chicago Bears 20-19 on Sunday when Karl Brooks blocked Cairo Santos’ 46-yard area objective try as time expired.
The Packers (7-3) made simply sufficient performs to keep away from falling farther behind Detroit and Minnesota within the NFC North and beat the last-place Bears (4-6) for the eleventh straight time, the longest streak by both crew within the storied rivalry.
Love put Inexperienced Bay on high 20-19 when he scored from the 1 with 2:59 left. That landing was arrange by a 60-yard go to Christian Watson, who bought up after making a lunging catch and ran all the best way to the 14. The 2-point conversion failed.
Inexperienced Bay then sacked Caleb Williams on the primary two performs of the subsequent possession. The Bears regrouped and drove all the best way to the 28, solely to finish a chaotic week with their fourth straight loss when Brooks bought by the middle of the road and blocked Santos’ kick.
Cincinnati Bengals 27-34 Los Angeles Chargers
JK Dobbins rushed for a 29-yard landing with 18 seconds remaining, and the Los Angeles Chargers beat the Cincinnati Bengals 34-27 on Sunday evening after squandering a 21-point third-quarter lead.
Justin Herbert handed for 297 yards and two touchdowns, and rushed for 65 yards because the Chargers (7-3) received their fourth straight. Dobbins ran for 2 TDs.
Joe Burrow handed for 356 yards and three touchdowns, however the Bengals (4-7) suffered one other excruciating loss. They’ve 5 defeats by seven factors or fewer.
After its offense stalled for a lot of the second half, Los Angeles went 84 yards on 4 performs in 26 seconds on the decisive drive. Ladd McConkey, who had six receptions for a career-high 123 yards, had 28- and 27-yard grabs earlier than Dobbins scored his eighth landing of the season.
Dobbins additionally scored from 1 yard out within the second quarter to increase Los Angeles’ result in 21-6. He completed with 56 yards on 11 carries.
Las Vegas Raiders 19-34 Miami Dolphins
Tua Tagovailoa threw three landing passes, De’Von Achane ran for a rating, and the Miami Dolphins beat the Las Vegas Raiders 34-19 on Sunday to win their second straight sport.
It was one other robust victory for the Dolphins (4-6), who haven’t matched their offensive fireworks from final season however are coming off a gritty Monday evening win over the Rams. The Raiders (2-8) misplaced their sixth straight sport.
Tagovailoa led the Dolphins down the sphere with lengthy, methodical drives – three of them greater than seven minutes – that every one resulted in scores, as Miami scored 30 factors for the primary time this season.
Tagovailoa accomplished 28 of 36 passes for 288 yards with touchdowns of 1 and 57 yards to tight finish Jonnu Smith, and an eight-yard TD to receiver Tyreek Hill. Hill caught seven passes for 61 yards and has scored in consecutive video games for the primary time this season. Smith had a season-high 101 yards receiving.
The Raiders trailed 24-14 within the fourth quarter after Achane ran for a 2-yard rating that added to his 17 carries for 73 yards.
Cleveland Browns 14-35 New Orleans Saints
Taysom Hill capped a 138-yard, three-touchdown efficiency on the bottom with a 75-yard scoring run, and the New Orleans Saints improved to 2-0 below interim coach Darren Rizzi with a 35-14 victory over the Cleveland Browns on Sunday.
Hill’s two different touchdowns went for 10 and 33 yards – the second on fourth and brief – to greater than stability out his two turnovers on an interception and fumble. The 34-year-old Hill additionally moved into ninth place in franchise historical past with 44 complete TDs, 4 behind receiver Eric Martin.
Hill additionally accomplished an 18-yard go and returned a kickoff 42 yards.
Derek Carr handed for 248 yards and two touchdowns for New Orleans (4-7), highlighted by Marquez Valdes-Scantling’s 71-yard catch and run on a brief crossing route.
Jameis Winston handed for 395 yards and two TDs for the Browns (2-8) in his return to the town he referred to as residence for the earlier 4 NFL seasons.
Indianapolis Colts 28-27 New York Jets
Anthony Richardson ran for a four-yard landing, his second of the sport, with 46 seconds left in his return to the beginning position to elevate the Indianapolis Colts to a 28-27 victory over Aaron Rodgers and the New York Jets on Sunday.
With the Jets main 27-22 after Anders Carlson’s 35-yard area objective with 2:41 remaining, Richardson – benched for 2 video games in favor of Joe Flacco – marched the Colts down the sphere.
He linked with Alec Pierce for 39 yards after which Josh Downs for 17 yards to place the ball on the 10. Three performs later, Richardson took off to the fitting and bumped into the top zone for the go-ahead rating. Jonathan Taylor was stuffed on the two-point attempt – giving Rodgers and the Jets one final probability, however with no timeouts left.
Rodgers was sacked by Kwity Paye and fumbled on the primary play, however the Jets recovered. After Corridor had an 11-yard catch and a delay-of-game penalty was referred to as on the Colts’ EJ Pace, Rodgers was sacked once more by Paye – sealing the win for the Colts (5-6), who snapped a three-game skid.
Richardson, the No 4 total decide final yr and the league’s second-youngest beginning QB, had maybe his finest sport within the NFL – and it got here in opposition to the league’s oldest quarterback within the 40-year-old Rodgers. Richardson completed 20 of 30 for 272 yards and a landing to Downs and ran for 32 yards and the 2 scores on 10 carries.
Minnesota Vikings 23-13 Tennessee Titans
Sam Darnold overcame an early fumble by throwing for 246 yards and two touchdowns and operating for a rating and the Minnesota Vikings beat the Tennessee Titans 23-13 Sunday.
Darnold had been picked off 5 instances over the earlier two video games, matching his complete over the primary seven video games of the season. Then his toss to Aaron Jones on the Vikings’ third offensive play was fumbled and recovered by Jeffery Simmons for the Titans.
The quarterback answered proper again to assist the Vikings (8-2) win their third straight and enhance to 5-0 in opposition to AFC groups this season. He discovered Jordan Addison for a 47-yard catch-and-run landing because the Vikings didn’t path once more as they scored 16 straight for a 16-3 halftime lead.
Andrew Van Ginkel had his two sacks on back-to-back performs as Minnesota completed with 5. Pat Jones II additionally had two. Harrison Smith clinched the win with an interception with 1:50 left, giving the Vikings’ followers that turned this right into a close to residence sport one more reason to rejoice chanting “SKOL”.
The Titans (2-8) misplaced their second straight and went winless in opposition to the NFC North.
Jacksonville Jaguars 6-52 Detroit Lions
Jared Goff threw two of his 4 landing passes to Amon-Ra St Brown, David Montgomery and Jahmyr Gibbs mixed for 3 dashing touchdowns, and the Detroit Lions routed the Jacksonville Jaguars 52-6 on Sunday.
The NFC-leading Lions (9-1) have received eight straight and 9 of their first 10 video games in a season for the primary time since 1934.
Detroit’s successful margin of 46 factors was the most important in franchise historical past, and it handed Jacksonville their biggest-ever defeat. The Lions additionally set a franchise report in complete yards with 644.
The Jaguars (2-9) have misplaced 4 consecutive video games for the second time this season and 14 of 17 since final yr, a collection of slumps that will value coach Doug Pederson his job.
Jacksonville rookie Cam Little made a career-best 59-yard area objective on the game-opening drive and closed the primary half with one other area objective.
Los Angeles Rams 28-22 New England Patriots
Matthew Stafford threw for 295 yards and 4 touchdowns, together with a 69-yard rating to Cooper Kupp on the second play of the second half to assist the Los Angeles Rams draw back and beat the New England Patriots 28-22 on Sunday.
New England trailed 14-10 after Rams kicker Joshua Karty’s 26-yard field-goal try on the finish of the primary half clanged off the fitting upright. Los Angeles acquired the kick to start out the second half, and on second down Stafford discovered Kupp close to midfield; Patriots cornerback Jonathan Jones dove for the go and missed, leaving nobody between Kupp and the top zone.
The Patriots drove into Los Angeles territory, with a first-and-goal from the Rams 5, however settled for a area objective. On the Rams’ subsequent possession, Stafford discovered Colby Parkinson within the nook of the top zone to make it 28-13.
A missed additional level and a false begin on fourth-and-1 doomed two Patriots’ makes an attempt to return again. New England bought the ball again at their very own 10 with 2:14 left and one timeout for one final attempt, however Kamren Kinchens intercepted Drake Maye to ice it.
Seattle Seahawks 20-17 San Francisco 49ers
Geno Smith scored on a 13-yard scramble with 12 seconds remaining and Seattle snapped a six-game dropping streak in opposition to San Francisco with a victory.
Smith accomplished seven of eight passes for 65 yards to get the Seahawks (5-5) in place to attain after taking on at their 20 with 2:38 remaining. He then ran it in in opposition to a depleted protection for the 49ers (5-5) that sorely missed injured edge rusher Nick Bosa on the ultimate drive.
The win moved Seattle right into a three-way tie for second place within the NFC West with San Francisco and the Rams, a sport behind Arizona. The Niners have misplaced three division video games, blowing fourth-quarter leads in all of them after dropping video games earlier this season to the Rams and Cardinals.
Atlanta Falcons 6-38 Denver Broncos
Bo Nix threw for 307 yards and a season-best 4 touchdowns, Javonte Williams bought a push throughout the objective line from a half-dozen of his teammates, and Denver rolled previous Atlanta.
Nix, who was 28 for 33, joined Corridor of Famer Peyton Manning as the one rookie QBs in NFL historical past to throw for 200-plus yards with two or extra touchdowns in 4 consecutive residence video games.
The Broncos (6-5) snapped a two-game skid and made it an sad homecoming for security Justin Simmons, who spent his first eight seasons in Denver earlier than the Broncos unloaded his $18.5m wage final winter. Simmons signed a one-year, $7.5m cope with the Falcons (6-5), who’ve misplaced two in a row.
Simmons had 5 tackles and tried to cease Williams on the five-yard line, holding his floor for a second or two as reinforcements arrived from each groups for a shoving match that resembled a rugby scrum. The Broncos received it after they shoved Williams into the top zone to finish his 14-yard scoring run that gave Denver an early 14-3 lead.
