AFC
Baltimore Ravens
Lamar Jackson (BAL) vs. DAL: 15/20 Passing, 186 Yards, 2 TD, 0 INT | 6 Carries, 50 Yards
Bom dia, Dallas! Nobody laid a hand on Lamar Jackson. Zero sacks in an entire football game, which almost never happens to him, and five incompletions in twenty throws. Derrick Henry did the labor, 26 carries of it, while Lamar picked his moments. The 49-yarder to Rashod Bateman was one. So was the little 4-yard flip to Chris Moore in the third. The one that should have won it was a 2-yarder to Matthew Hibner with a minute and a half left, 31-28. Dallas would respond with a game-tying drive on a 23-yard Brandon Aubrey field goal with seven seconds on the clock. I was told Lamar isn’t clutch. If that’s true, explain this.
LAMAR JACKSON FINDS A RECEIVER AND CALLS TIMEOUT WITH ONE SECOND LEFT!#NFL pic.twitter.com/lxPauAT6cg
— TSN (@TSN_Sports) September 27, 2026
Which meant Tyler Loop had to walk out and bury a 56-yarder at the horn. He did. Fifty rushing yards on six carries too. The designed-run stuff still isn’t back, and on a day where he averages 9.3 a throw and gives away nothing, I can live with that.
Buffalo Bills
Josh Allen (BUF) vs. LAC: 16/26 Passing, 204 Yards, 0 TD, 2 INT | 8 Carries, 22 Yards, 2 TD, 1 Fumble (Lost)
Two interceptions. No touchdowns. Four sacks. A lost fumble. Josh Allen won by eight. Buffalo’s first quarter was three drives long and not one of them reached midfield. The best of them died at their own 47 when Cook put the ball on the ground. Both of Allen’s picks went to the same guy, Chargers rookie Genesis Smith, and both were meant for DJ Moore, which is either a coverage problem or a stubbornness problem. Tuli Tuipulotu got the fumble out on a scramble in the fourth. And he still scored twice from a yard out. One tied it at 10 before the half. The other, at 7:35 of the fourth, won it. Go find the 4th-and-6 from the Chargers 43 with 11:15 left, too. He throws a 43-yard strike. Dawson Knox holds somebody. Gone. Sixteen of 26 for 204, and a team that trailed most of the day hung 14 on them in the final quarter. You cannot bench this man.
Cincinnati Bengals
Joe Burrow (CIN) vs. PIT: 28/37 Passing, 282 Yards, 3 TD, 0 INT | 2 Carries, 13 Yards, 1 Fumble (Lost)
Twenty-eight of 37, 282 yards, three touchdowns, no picks. Joe Burrow lost. Chase got the first one from 3. Higgins took a 28-yarder with 34 seconds left in the half. Gesicki finished the set from 25 early in the fourth, Cincinnati led 27-24, and it felt over. Boswell tied it from 36. Then, 53 seconds on the clock, Burrow gets hit and the ball comes loose and Sebastian Joseph-Day is lying on it at the Cincinnati 49. Boswell from 33. Ballgame. He was sacked one time all afternoon. That was the one.
Cleveland Browns
Deshaun Watson (CLE) vs. CAR: 16/30 Passing, 144 Yards, 2 TD, 0 INT | 1 Carries, 17 Yards
Watson threw a bad one deep right. Akayleb Evans had it in the end zone, easily, and for about two seconds Cleveland had handed the game away. Then the flag came in on Bobby Okereke for roughing the passer. Interception gone. So was Watson, who got up slow and walked off. One penalty and he lost a snap instead of the football. He came back and won the thing, which nobody in that stadium expected. Both touchdowns went to Harold Fannin, who was so uncovered on the 2-yarder it barely counted as a throw, and then the 14-yard winner with 1:48 left plus the two-pointer to Denzel Boston, 21-18. Somewhere in the middle Cleveland called a designed quarterback draw and Watson ran directly into one of his own blockers and slogged forward like a man crossing a marsh. Sixteen of 30 for 144. Two sacks. Two Szmyt field goals. The Browns are 2-1.
Shedeur Sanders (CLE) vs. CAR: 1/1 Passing, 0 Yards, 0 TD, 0 INT | 0 Carries, 0 Yards
One snap, one throw, one completion. Shedeur Sanders came in for the single play Watson missed, hit Quinshon Judkins on a short right for no gain, and sat back down. No first-team reps since the preseason, and he leaves Sunday as the only quarterback in the league who completed every pass he threw. Undefeated. Unblemished. Worth zero fantasy points.
Denver Broncos
Bo Nix (DEN) vs. LAR: 17/34 Passing, 186 Yards, 2 TD, 1 INT | 4 Carries, 7 Yards, 1 TD
At halftime, Bo Nix had just 53 passing yards and the Broncos were down 16-0, with their drives ending in a punt, a missed field goal, and two more punts. Things turned around in the third quarter when Pat Bryant caught a five-yard touchdown pass and Nate Adkins added an eight-yard score. Nix made both two-point conversions to tie the game at 16. Early in the fourth quarter, Josh Wallace picked off Nix at the Rams’ 37-yard line. Harrison Mevis kicked a 48-yard field goal, and then Talanoa Hufanga returned an interception for a touchdown, briefly putting Nix ahead, though he never actually held the lead. Just 71 seconds later, Konata Mumpfield tied the game again. Big catches by Bryant (39 yards) and Troy Franklin (21 yards) moved the Broncos to the Rams’ 15-yard line at the two-minute warning. With 1:15 left and the Broncos trailing 26-23 at the Rams’ 11, Nix threw a short pass to Bryant that Wallace intercepted at the 8, but a pass interference call on Wallace wiped out the play. After a replay review overturned a touchdown at the 1-yard line, Nix ran it in from one yard out with 47 seconds to go.
Houston Texans
C.J. Stroud (HOU) vs. IND: 16/27 Passing, 167 Yards, 1 TD, 0 INT | 2 Carries, 10 Yards
Here is how C.J. Stroud’s only touchdown happened. David Montgomery tried to throw a pass. That went badly. The wreckage drew a defensive pass interference flag in the end zone, and Houston woke up holding first and goal at the one. Stroud sold the play action and Foster Moreau was standing there by himself. After 55 throws and nothing to show for it last week, I’ll take a gift. Twenty-seven attempts, 167 yards, longest a 28-yarder to Xavier Hutchinson, three sacks, zero turnovers. Houston even led 17-16 on a Woody Marks run with 1:48 to go. Then Spencer Shrader hit a 53-yarder with 16 seconds left and the Texans went to 0-3.
Indianapolis Colts
Daniel Jones (IND) vs. HOU: 24/36 Passing, 235 Yards, 1 TD, 1 INT | 3 Carries, 5 Yards, 3 Fumbles (2 Lost)
Daniel Jones fumbled three times, lost two, threw a pick, and won the football game. Will Anderson Jr. caused both of the lost ones. He spent the afternoon somewhere between the guard and the quarterback and Indianapolis never found an answer for him. Tyler Warren dropped one that hit him square in the hands. And the interception was a prayer, deep left, three defenders in the neighborhood and Josh Downs somewhere in there too, and Reed Blankenship came out of the pile with it at the Houston 1 without the ball ever touching grass. Twenty-four of 36 for 235. One touchdown, a 6-yarder to Keenan Allen. Four sacks. Spencer Shrader went 4-for-4, including a 58 and the 53-yard winner with 16 seconds left. The Colts are 2-1 because of their kicker and I don’t think that’s an exaggeration.
Jacksonville Jaguars
Trevor Lawrence (JAX) vs. NE: 19/29 Passing, 182 Yards, 3 TD, 1 INT | 4 Carries, 25 Yards
I wasn’t ready to bury Trevor Lawrence. He made sure of it. Three touchdowns on 29 attempts in a 35-6 wipeout. Cameron got the first from 12. The Meyers throw later in the second was the one worth rewinding, a dart from 10 out with no room to work with. Washington closed the door from 17 in the third, 21-3, and nobody needed to watch the rest. One sack. Twenty-five yards on the ground. One pick, thrown for Brenton Strange in the second, and it was Patriots corner Marcus Jones who came away with it at the Jacksonville 33. Four tuddys in Week 1. None in Week 2. Three here. Nobody said this was going to be relaxing.
Kansas City Chiefs
Patrick Mahomes (KC) vs. MIA: 20/24 Passing, 246 Yards, 2 TD, 1 INT | 1 Carries, 1 Yards
Four incompletions. That’s the whole afternoon. Patrick Mahomes went 20 of 24 and nobody got near him, a week after he threw it 47 times. The 48-yarder to Kelce on the opening series set the tone. Walker took a 5-yarder in the second. Kelce got the closer from 11 with 2:55 to play. Jacob Rodriguez picked one off at the Miami 29 in the second quarter and that is the entire ledger. Five touchdowns across two weeks, 3-0, and I haven’t heard the word knee in a month.
Las Vegas Raiders
Kirk Cousins (LVR) vs. NO: 22/33 Passing, 248 Yards, 3 TD, 0 INT | 3 Carries, 3 Yards
I have no more jokes. Kirk Cousins is 3-0. Down 27-22 going into the fourth. Two touchdowns inside three minutes. Cody White from 4. Then Bowers from 4. Thirty-five to 27, go home. Bowers made his season debut and caught ten balls for 116, which probably deserves its own article somewhere else. Mayer had the earlier one from 3. Mike Washington Jr. broke a 36-yard run. Matt Gay hit three field goals. Somehow this team is undefeated. Twenty-two of 33 with eleven misses, nothing thrown to the other team, two sacks, and three touchdown passes in each of the first three weeks. I have called him a bye-week body three times now. I’m done doing that.
Los Angeles Chargers
Justin Herbert (LAC) vs. BUF: 20/34 Passing, 226 Yards, 1 TD, 1 INT | 4 Carries, 17 Yards
Up 10-0. Up 13-10 into the fourth. Zero and three. Justin Herbert missed fourteen of 34 throws and the only one anybody will remember went deep middle for Marquez Valdes-Scantling with the Chargers still in front. C.J. Gardner-Johnson took it. Buffalo scored 14 points after that. The touchdown was a 1-yarder to Keaton Mitchell on the opening drive, back when this looked like a completely different afternoon. Longest throw of the day was 29 to Tre’ Harris. Everything else stalled out, so Cameron Dicker kicked three times. Two sacks, 226 yards. Last week I said I was near the door. I’m in the hallway with my coat on.
Miami Dolphins
Malik Willis (MIA) vs. KC: 20/36 Passing, 210 Yards, 0 TD, 1 INT | 9 Carries, 56 Yards, 1 Fumble (Lost)
Nine carries, 56 yards. Malik Willis finally ran it like the guy everybody drafted. Miami scored ten points. He threw 36 times for 210 and none of them found an end zone. Sneed recovered a fumble in the second. Karlaftis picked him off in the fourth. The 44-yarder to Chris Bell was the only throw that went anywhere at all, and Ollie Gordon II scored the Dolphins’ lone touchdown on the ground. Three weeks in: two total scores, never more than 13 points in a game, 0-3. The legs are the only thing keeping him rostered anywhere.
New England Patriots
Drake Maye (NE) vs. JAX: 14/25 Passing, 199 Yards, 0 TD, 2 INT | 4 Carries, 18 Yards, 2 Fumbles (1 Lost)
Drake Maye was 6 of 10 with three minutes left in the half and the one good thing he had done was a 38-yard shot deep left to DeMario Douglas. Then it got away from him. DaVon Hamilton scooped a first-quarter sack fumble at the Jacksonville 42. He very nearly threw a pick with the ball still leaving his hand and got saved only because the defender who almost had it drew a flag. Right before halftime he put one in the end zone meant for Efton Chism III and Travis Hunter turned it into a touchback. J. Jones got the second one in the third. Three sacks. Two picks. A fumble. Thirty-five to six. Two straight weeks without a passing touchdown, one in three games.
Tommy DeVito (NE) vs. JAX: 3/5 Passing, 30 Yards, 0 TD, 0 INT | 1 Carries, 2 Yards
Six minutes left, down 35-6. That is the Tommy DeVito hour. Three completions, 30 yards, one carry for two. Tommy Cutlets remains beloved and irrelevant.
New York Jets
Geno Smith (NYJ) vs. DET: 31/37 Passing, 321 Yards, 3 TD, 0 INT | 2 Carries, 12 Yards, 1 Fumble (Lost)
Thirty-one of 37. Three touchdowns. Three hundred twenty-one yards. Eighty-four percent. A loss. The dart to Kenyon Sadiq from 24 was the early one, and Sadiq finished 7-105-1. Ruckert took a 4-yarder. Then Wilson from 23, plus the two-pointer to Sterling Shepard, and the Jets were level at 24 with four minutes left. Detroit scored. Then Chuck Clark hit him at the Detroit 41, thirteen yards backward, ball on the ground, 51 seconds on the clock. That’s the game. Five sacks and 44 yards worth of them. He had one passing touchdown through two weeks and threw three in an afternoon. Nobody’s calling him Meh-no Smith today.
Pittsburgh Steelers
Aaron Rodgers (PIT) vs. CIN: 19/34 Passing, 292 Yards, 3 TD, 1 INT | 3 Carries, 10 Yards
Look who woke up. One passing touchdown in two games. Three in this one, and two of those came in the first quarter alone, Roman Wilson from 38 and Skowronek from 23, 14-7 before anybody had settled into their seat. He should have had four. Metcalf was standing wide open in the end zone in the second and Rodgers put it nowhere near him, then finally connected with him from 6 in the third like he’d been meaning to get around to it. The long one was 47 to Darnell Washington in the fourth. Jordan Battle picked him off before halftime. Two sacks. Two hundred ninety-two yards and three scores on 34 throws is the discount double-check I said was gone for good. Boswell finished it from 33 at 2:15 after Cincinnati coughed it up.
Tennessee Titans
Cam Ward (TEN) vs. NYG: 23/36 Passing, 181 Yards, 1 TD, 1 INT | 1 Carries, 2 Yards
Shut out for three quarters. Beaten 12-7 by a team that never found the end zone. Cam Ward threw it 36 times for 181 yards. Tennessee finally got on the board with 5:35 left, a 4-yarder to Wan’Dale Robinson. Then, 24 seconds to go and a real chance to steal it, he threw into the end zone and Jevon Holland caught it. Touchback. He wasn’t sacked once, which is the nicest sentence available to me. Two passing touchdowns in three games. Oh-and-three.
NFC
Arizona Cardinals
Jacoby Brissett (ARI) vs. SF: 38/52 Passing, 280 Yards, 2 TD, 0 INT | 4 Carries, 4 Yards, 1 TD
Ninety-five yards last week. Fifty-two attempts this week. Jacoby Brissett damn near stole it. Arizona was buried 23-6 in the third and then outscored San Francisco 24-13 the rest of the way. Michael Wilson from 5. Jeremiyah Love from 1. And then Brissett walked it in himself from a yard out at 2:51, 29-27, and the Cardinals were genuinely about to do this. Purdy answered. Chad Ryland hit from 49 with 34 seconds showing. Six short. Thirty-eight completions sounds enormous right up until you divide 280 by 52 and land on 5.4. Two sacks, nothing turned over, three total touchdowns. Desperation volume is still volume.
Atlanta Falcons
Michael Penix Jr. (ATL) vs. GB: 18/25 Passing, 256 Yards, 1 TD, 1 INT | 2 Carries, -2 Yards
Michael Penix Jr. took his first snaps of 2026 on Thursday night and Atlanta scored 35 points. Cleared from a partially torn ACL. Named the starter on Monday. Not touched by a Packer all night. Eighteen of 25, seven misses, better than ten yards a throw. Hooper got the touchdown from 5 before the half. The 68-yarder to Drake London in the fourth was the throw that made you sit up. He had the two-point conversion pass to Chris Blair as well. Xavier McKinney picked him off in the first quarter and that is the whole complaint. Bijan Robinson punched in two short ones. And for anybody still clutching a Tua share: Tua Tagovailoa was healthy, was active, and stood on that sideline the entire game.
Carolina Panthers
Bryce Young (CAR) vs. CLE: 26/48 Passing, 291 Yards, 1 TD, 1 INT | 0 Carries, 0 Yards
Forty-eight throws. One touchdown. Twenty-two misses. Ryan Fitzgerald kicked from 35, 41, 53 and 37, which tells you everything about how many Carolina drives died inside scoring range. Bryce Young also got banged up after a second-quarter sack and stayed out there, and I would guess that explains a chunk of the back half. He got home eventually. Metchie from 8 with 4:25 left, 18-13. Then the two-point try failed and that, it turns out, was the whole ballgame. Cleveland scored at 1:48 and made theirs. Sixteen seconds left. Young throws short left for Darren Waller. Ronnie Hickman ends it. Seven touchdowns in the first two weeks, and then this.
Chicago Bears
Caleb Williams (CHI) vs. PHI
The Eagles travel to Chicago on Monday night to face the Bears. Both of those teams will be covered in our Monday Night edition of What We Saw, published on Tuesday morning.
Dallas Cowboys
Dak Prescott (DAL) vs. BAL: 25/40 Passing, 276 Yards, 1 TD, 0 INT | 4 Carries, 19 Yards
Dak Prescott didn’t turn the ball over once and lost on a 56-yard field goal at the horn. Twenty-five of 40 for 276. One sack. One touchdown, a 19-yarder to Jake Ferguson late in the third, and the two-pointer to CeeDee Lamb after it made it 24-21. He found Lamb again for 49 in the fourth. Then the last eight minutes happened. Turpin ran one in from 9 and Dallas led 28-24. Aubrey tied it from 23 with seven seconds left. Loop answered from 56. Javonte Williams ran for 98 and a score. Four touchdowns last week, one this week, clean both times.
Detroit Lions
Jared Goff (DET) vs. NYJ: 25/32 Passing, 269 Yards, 2 TD, 0 INT | 4 Carries, 6 Yards
Twenty-five of 32. Seven misses. Nothing given away. Jared Goff nearly had Sam LaPorta at the back of the end zone, then came back and dropped one on Amon-Ra St. Brown along the right side inside two minutes of the half. Four yards, easy. He hit Isaac TeSlaa for 49 in the fourth. And after the Jets tied it 24-24 with four minutes to go, Goff answered with an 11-yard touchdown to Jahmyr Gibbs at 2:25. Gibbs also ran it 20 times for 99 and two more scores, so it was really his afternoon more than anybody’s. Two sacks. Six touchdowns and zero interceptions across two weeks.
Green Bay Packers
Jordan Love (GB) vs. ATL: 28/53 Passing, 312 Yards, 2 TD, 1 INT | 1 Carries, 0 Yards, 1 Fumble
Fifty-three attempts. Twenty-five of them hit nobody. Five-point-nine yards a throw in a 35-14 beating. Jordan Love hit Christian Watson from 4 on the opening drive. Green Bay did not score again until 8:18 of the fourth, a 15-yarder to Matthew Golden with the thing long decided. The 45-yarder to Golden in the first was the only deep ball all night that actually landed. Xavier Watts picked him off at the Atlanta 3 with 1:18 left. One sack. One fumble he managed to hang onto. Three hundred eighty-seven yards, then 145, now 312. The production has never once matched the volume.
Los Angeles Rams
Matthew Stafford (LAR) vs. DEN: 30/55 Passing, 390 Yards, 2 TD, 2 INT | 2 Carries, 13 Yards
With 4:49 left and the Rams clinging to a 19-16 lead at the Denver 38, Matthew Stafford fired a short pass left to Kyren Williams. Suddenly, Talanoa Hufanga intercepted it at the 34 and blazed 66 yards the other way, ending a drive that had begun with Davante Adams’ electrifying 49-yard catch, his longest of the night. Denver surged ahead 23-19. Stafford threw 55 times, just one fewer than his first two weeks combined. He racked up 390 yards at 7.1 per attempt but was sacked four times. The Rams built a 16-0 halftime cushion thanks to Tyler Higbee’s 5-yard touchdown and three Harrison Mevis field goals. The second half brought a tense stalemate with three straight punts, the last coming just 10 seconds into the fourth. Denver roared back with 16 third-quarter points to tie it. After the pick-six, Stafford answered with three sharp completions to Konata Mumpfield: 21, 9, and a 48-yard touchdown at 3:38 to reclaim the lead, 26-23. Bo Nix punched it in from the 1 with 47 seconds left. On the final snap, Stafford launched a deep shot right for Adams, but Hufanga struck again. That’s three interceptions in three games for him. Despite outgaining Denver 482 to 257, the Rams fell by four.
Minnesota Vikings
Kyler Murray (MIN) vs. TB: 15/29 Passing, 168 Yards, 1 TD, 1 INT | 2 Carries, 17 Yards
Fourteen of Kyler Murray’s 29 throws hit nobody. He cleared concussion protocol, got his job back, and the Vikings won 23-16 mostly without him. A hundred sixty-eight yards. Three sacks. A third-quarter pick by A’Shawn Robinson. The good part was genuinely good, a 41-yard strike to Jordan Addison late in the second for a 17-10 lead. It was also the last touchdown Minnesota scored all night. Reichard handled the rest of it from 54, 56 and 43. Myles Price’s 86-yard punt return did more damage than the quarterback did. Minnesota is 3-0.
New Orleans Saints
Tyler Shough (NO) vs. LVR: 29/42 Passing, 255 Yards, 4 TD, 1 INT | 1 Carries, 36 Yards, 2 Fumbles (2 Lost)
An Honest Abe. Two lost fumbles. One interception. Every giveaway in the fourth quarter. Juwan Johnson took two of the scores, from 2 and from 1. Fant got the other pair, from 3 and from 16. New Orleans led 27-16 in the third and looked like a real football team. Then Koonce came off the edge at 13:04 and the ball was on the ground and Maxx Crosby was on top of it. Hunter Masses picked him off at 8:03. Jeremy Chinn got him at 2:21 and Las Vegas fell on that one too. Nineteen unanswered points. He also broke a 36-yard scramble, because of course he did. Olave went 9-107. The fantasy line was a gift. The film is a horror movie.
New York Giants
Jameis Winston (NYG) vs. TEN: 14/22 Passing, 118 Yards, 0 TD, 0 INT | 2 Carries, 14 Yards
Jaxson Dart is gone for the regular season. Knee. Opening drive of the Week 2 Monday night loss to the Rams. So Jameis Winston has the huddle, and his first start went 14 of 22 for 118 yards, no touchdowns, and, read this part slowly, no interceptions. He did botch a handoff with Cam Skattebo on New York’s own 1, which is how teams lose football games, and somehow the Giants kept it. They won 12-7 without ever reaching the end zone. Dominic Zvada went 4-for-4, from 39, 27, 39 and 30. Three sacks. Longest throw of the day was a 30-yarder to Skattebo. A clean Jameis is a headline. A 118-yard Jameis is a wire guy.
Philadelphia Eagles
Jalen Hurts (PHI) vs. CHI
The Eagles travel to Chicago on Monday night to face the Bears. Both of those teams will be covered in our Monday Night edition of What We Saw, published on Tuesday morning.
Seattle Seahawks
Sam Darnold (SEA) vs. WAS: 31/45 Passing, 379 Yards, 4 TD, 2 INT | 1 Carries, 5 Yards
Sam Darnold’s hip is fine. He rolled right on Seattle’s first touchdown and put a laser on Jaxon Smith-Njigba, and if you were worried about the injury, that answered it. He finished with 379 yards and an Honest Abe. Saubert took one from 13. JSN got another from 11. Kupp caught the last one from 7 at 2:51 and pulled Seattle within two. Nobody sacked him. Seattle also went for it on fourth and goal and Darnold scrambled himself ragged back there with nothing coming open. The picks are what buried it. Sonny Styles took the first in the third, short left, meant for JSN. Then at 3:57 Kain Medrano read a short middle throw for AJ Barner and went 50 yards the other way, and a three-point hole became a nine-point one. Twelve-game win streak, over. Fantasy day, enormous.
San Francisco 49ers
Brock Purdy (SF) vs. ARI: 15/27 Passing, 297 Yards, 4 TD, 0 INT | 2 Carries, 34 Yards
Fifteen completions. Four touchdowns. Eleven yards every time he let it go. An Honest Abe on 27 attempts, and no Cardinal touched him for the second week running. The first score was ridiculous. Two-yard pass to Mike Evans. Evans laterals it to Deebo Samuel. Eighty more yards. Evans took the next one himself from 23, and Kittle got the last two from 10 and 20, both in the fourth. San Francisco needed every single one of them, because Arizona fell behind 23-6 and then outscored them 24-13 and got within six with 34 seconds left. Nine touchdowns and one interception in three weeks. Nobody in the league is playing better.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Baker Mayfield (TB) vs. MIN: 17/34 Passing, 217 Yards, 1 TD, 1 INT | 2 Carries, 6 Yards
Six sacks. Thirty-one yards. And Baker Mayfield left the game hurt. The 40-yard bomb to Ted Hurst III in the first quarter was the last good thing that happened to Tampa all night. After that it was Chase McLaughlin kicking three times and a quarterback getting hit. The Bucs trailed 17-10 at the half, closed to 17-16 on a 54-yarder, and Reichard answered twice. At 1:54 of the fourth, Andrew Van Ginkel picked him off at the Tampa 41 and Mayfield was hurt on the play. Seventeen of 34. Exactly half. Three sacks last week, six this week. That’s a line problem, not a quarterback problem, and now there’s an injury on top of it.
Jalon Daniels (TB) vs. MIN: 0/3 Passing, 0 Yards, 0 TD, 1 INT | 1 Carries, 9 Yards
Jalon Daniels got the last two minutes and went 0 for 3 with a pick, Isaiah Rodgers taking it at the Minnesota 3 with eight seconds left. He did scramble for nine. If Mayfield can’t go, this is the Tampa Bay offense, and Emeka Egbuka managers should be sweating.
Washington Commanders
Marcus Mariota (WAS) vs. SEA: 19/31 Passing, 183 Yards, 3 TD, 0 INT | 5 Carries, 11 Yards
Jayden Daniels dislocated his left elbow in Dallas, saw specialists in New York and Los Angeles, and decided against surgery. Brace, week-to-week, no date on it. Which means Marcus Mariota just beat the defending champions. Nineteen of 31 for 183 and three touchdowns. Rachaad White got one from 6 on the opening drive. The 30-yard strike to Terry McLaurin in the third was the throw of his day. Washington led 24-17 into the fourth and needed all of it, because Darnold dropped 14 on them in the final quarter. Kain Medrano’s 50-yard pick-six was the actual difference in the football game. Two sacks. Nothing turned over. Three touchdowns on 183 yards is a strange, extremely usable afternoon.