Stroll-off Sunday: 3 video games finish with TDs on 1 day for 2nd time

An inexplicable botched lateral, a deflected pick-6 and a landing run offered one of many rarest days in NFL historical past.

For the second time ever Sunday, three NFL video games ended with a profitable landing on the ultimate play on the identical day.

Chandler Jones returned a fumble 48 yards for a TD to finish regulation and carry Las Vegas over New England, Rayshawn Jenkins had a pick-6 in additional time to push Jacksonville previous Dallas, and Jerick McKinnon scored on a 26-yard run in OT to present Kansas Metropolis a win over Houston.

In line with the Elias Sports activities Bureau, the one different day three video games ended with a go-ahead landing got here on Sept. 17, 1995, when Emmitt Smith (TD run in OT for Dallas vs. Minnesota), Rod Smith (TD catch to finish regulation for Denver vs. Washington), and James Hasty (pick-6 in OT for Kansas Metropolis vs. Oakland) did it.

Essentially the most inconceivable one on Sunday might need been the win for Las Vegas. The Raiders practically blew their record-setting fifth recreation after main by 13 factors earlier than getting bailed out in a wild end in opposition to New England.

Las Vegas tied the sport with 32 seconds left and it appeared headed for additional time when the Patriots known as a working play from their 45 with three seconds remaining.

However inexplicably, Rhamondre Stevenson lateraled the ball to Jakobi Meyers, who then tried to throw it again throughout the sector to quarterback Mac Jones.

Chandler Jones caught the lateral and returned it for the game-winning rating.

In line with Elias, it was simply the third fumble restoration landing on the ultimate play of regulation in AFL-NFL historical past, with the Raiders and Patriots additionally concerned within the different two.

In 1978, Raiders tight finish Dave Casper recovered a fumble in the long run zone to beat the Chargers on a play memorialized because the “Holy Curler” recreation.

The Patriots did it in 1960 in opposition to the New York Titans when Chuck Shonta returned a fumble 52 yards for the profitable rating in a 28-24 win.

Mixed with Jenkins’ pick-6, it marked the primary time because the merger that there have been two game-winning defensive scores on the ultimate play in a single week.

COMEBACK QBs

Main an epic comeback is nothing new for Kirk Cousins, and being a part of a crew that blew an enormous lead is acquainted territory for Matt Ryan.

So maybe it was applicable they have been the 2 quarterbacks who took half within the NFL’s largest comeback ever when Cousins and Minnesota rallied from 33 factors right down to beat Ryan and Indianapolis 39-36 in additional time Saturday.

No crew had come again from no less than 24 factors down in a regular-season recreation since Cousins did it in Week 7 of the 2015 season with Washington in opposition to Tampa Bay. Groups had been 0-346 when trailing by 24 in between these two rallies.

Cousins engineered his seventh fourth-quarter comeback of the season, one shy of the document set by Matthew Stafford in 2016.

The Vikings turned the third crew to win no less than 10 video games in a season determined by eight factors or fewer, becoming a member of the 2019 Seahawks and 1978 Oilers. Minnesota is 10-0 in these one-score video games.

Ryan by some means finds himself on the improper finish of those epic comebacks, having been on the Atlanta crew that blew a Tremendous Bowl-record 28-3 lead in opposition to New England following the 2016 season.

Ryan is the one quarterback since no less than 1950 to lose two begins after his crew led by no less than 25 factors within the common season or playoffs.

TRIPLE THREAT

New Orleans’ Taysom Hill joined some choose firm together with his 68-yard landing go to Rashid Shaheed in a 21-18 win over Atlanta.

That gave the Saints’ versatile playmaker 10 TD passes in his profession, together with the playoffs, to associate with his 21 landing runs and 11 TD catches.

Hill turn out to be the third participant in NFL historical past with no less than 10 touchdowns working, passing and receiving, becoming a member of Frank Gifford (46 receiving, 34 speeding, 14 passing) and Charlie Trippi (24 speeding, 16 passing, 11 receiving).

TOM NOT TERRIFIC

Tom Brady is hitting a number of new lows in his twenty third season.

After the Bucs blew a 17-point result in Cincinnati on Sunday, Brady has misplaced eight video games as a starter for the primary time in his profession.

Brady’s 4 residence losses are essentially the most he is ever had in a season, and he misplaced at residence for the primary time ever when main by no less than 17 factors. Brady additionally had his first profession recreation with a number of interceptions and misplaced fumbles.

RUNNING QBs

Jalen Hurts and Justin Fields are working their method into the document guide.

Hurts ran for 3 extra touchdowns Sunday in a Philadelphia Eagles win over Fields and the Chicago Bears, giving him 13 on the season.

Hurts additionally threw for 315 yards, becoming a member of Dak Prescott (Sept. 20, 2020, vs. Atlanta) and Jack Kemp (Oct. 26, 1963, vs. the Patriots) as the one gamers to throw for no less than 300 yards and run for 3 scores in the identical recreation.

Hurts, who additionally ran for 3 TDs in a recreation in opposition to New Orleans in 2021, joined Daunte Culpepper, Johnny Lujack and Tobin Rote as the one QBs with no less than two video games with three or extra speeding touchdowns.

Hurts’ 13 landing runs this season are one shy of Cam Newton’s document set in 2011.

Fields ran for 95 yards within the recreation to present him 1,000 on the season, becoming a member of Lamar Jackson (1,206 yards speeding in 2019 and 1,005 in 2020) and Michael Vick (1,039 in 2006) as the one QBs to succeed in 1,000 yards speeding in a season.

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