{"id":131667,"date":"2025-09-10T02:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T02:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/131667\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T02:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T02:04:07","slug":"aussie-nfl-wrap-up-how-did-jordan-mailata-tory-taylor-and-more-perform-in-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/131667\/","title":{"rendered":"Aussie NFL wrap-up: How did Jordan Mailata, Tory Taylor and more perform in Week 1?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL season is officially under way with four Australians opening their campaigns in an action-packed Week One slate.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a time of optimism for every franchise as Super Bowl 59 is still within the set of plausible outcomes for all 32 teams.<\/p>\n<p>Find out how every Australian NFL player performed below.<\/p>\n<p>Aussie NFL Wrap-up: Week OneJordan Mailata &#8211;\u00a0Philadelphia Eagles<\/p>\n<p>Fresh off of becoming the first Australian to play in a winning Super Bowl side, Jordan Mailata was strong in a spiteful clash with their divisional rivals &#8211; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/nfl\/dallas-cowboys\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The towering left tackle received an 86.4 overall Pro Football Focus (PFF) grade in the Eagles&#8217; 24-20 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Quarterback Jalen Hurts was kept relatively clean as the Cowboys only recorded one sack on 23 drop backs.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Faalele &#8211;\u00a0Baltimore Ravens<\/p>\n<p>Faalele had mixed results in his side&#8217;s heartbreaking defeat in Sunday Night Football against Josh Allen and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/nfl\/buffalo-bills\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Bills<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Ravens right guard recorded a\u00a059.9\u00a0overall PFF grade as quarterback Lamar Jackson was forced to scramble out of the pocket on multiple occasions as he tried to avoid the Bills&#8217; rush &#8211; ultimately taking\u00a0two sacks.<\/p>\n<p>On a positive note,\u00a0Faalele was a run-blocking force as he cleared the way for star back Derrick Henry to rush for 169 yards and two touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Dickson &#8211;\u00a0Seattle Seahawks<\/p>\n<p>The Seahawks veteran was solid with the boot in his side&#8217;s 17-13 defeat at home to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/au\/nfl\/san-francisco-49ers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco 49ers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dickson had five punts for an average of 51.8 yards, landing two inside the 20. He also sent a\u00a0torpedo flying for a long of 58 yards.<\/p>\n<p>Tory Taylor &#8211;\u00a0Chicago Bears<\/p>\n<p>Taylor was inconsistent in his first start of the 2025 season, on six attempts he averaged just 44.3 yards and landed one punt inside the opposition 20.<\/p>\n<p>His longest punt went for 56 yards which puts him right in the middle of the league for Week One. He&#8217;s now tied for 15th place.<\/p>\n<p>How to watch the NFL in Australia<\/p>\n<p>Every NFL game this season can be watched in Australia live on NFL Game Pass, via\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nflgpi.prf.hn\/click\/camref:1101lAYcW\/pubref:nflgpien\/ar:site-au-acdf2cf7974e4eac5de28254\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DAZN<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL season is officially under way with four Australians opening their campaigns in an action-packed Week One&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-131667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}