{"id":159251,"date":"2025-09-21T17:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T17:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/159251\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T17:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T17:23:09","slug":"week-3-nfl-highlights-best-plays-moments-and-touchdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/159251\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 3 NFL highlights: Best plays, moments and touchdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758475389_429_espn_generic_m.jpg&#038;h=80&#038;w=80&#038;scale=crop.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\"\/><\/p>\n<p>NFL NationSep 22, 2025, 03:05 AM<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-font-after icon-close-solid-after\" href=\"#\">Close<\/a>NFL Nation is made up of 32 team-specific reporters who cover the NFL year-round across ESPN.com, ESPN television shows, ESPN Radio, ESPN+ and social media platforms. It was established ahead of the 2013 season.<\/p>\n<p>There are 18 teams in action during Sunday&#8217;s early window of Week 3 in the 2025 NFL season, and we have the best highlights, touchdowns and moments from all of them.<\/p>\n<p>The first set of games is headlined by a pair of 2-0 teams, as <a data-player-guid=\"20c41c33-a33f-6dc2-7e1f-0771e39ce49a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/12483\/matthew-stafford\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Stafford<\/a> and the Rams are in Philadelphia to face <a data-player-guid=\"caceb80c-6350-a107-9fcf-7c7bd1b4edd8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4040715\/jalen-hurts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Hurts<\/a> and the Super Bowl champion Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>The Browns (0-2) are hosting the Packers (2-0), showcasing two of the NFL&#8217;s elite defensive stars in Cleveland&#8217;s <a data-player-guid=\"031d8156-6271-ea30-409f-137309621805\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3122132\/myles-garrett\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Myles Garrett<\/a> and Green Bay&#8217;s <a data-player-guid=\"19e0d5a6-9c4e-83d1-c9c2-5cfa322727f5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4361423\/micah-parsons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Micah Parsons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, we&#8217;re seeing how backup quarterbacks fare, with Commanders&#8217; <a data-player-guid=\"33be1f4a-d812-75b9-7b7c-5319d2a7113a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/2576980\/marcus-mariota\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marcus Mariota<\/a> filling in for <a data-player-guid=\"f03f3238-b035-6f0e-5844-1529ca021c3a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4426348\/jayden-daniels\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jayden Daniels<\/a> (knee), the Bengals&#8217; <a data-player-guid=\"9b5cc348-8b21-7070-a660-a5a7e059b1a5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3886812\/jake-browning\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Browning<\/a> filling in for <a data-player-guid=\"e6957db5-5b2e-a82d-c788-d889115d9772\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/3915511\/joe-burrow\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Burrow<\/a> (toe) at the Vikings, who have <a data-player-guid=\"ed28fa2c-63a1-8258-b6b0-618e79d3e363\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/2573079\/carson-wentz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carson Wentz<\/a> starting in place of <a data-player-guid=\"460fbf74-c64d-3862-b942-852d104e94dd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4433970\/jj-mccarthy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">J.J. McCarthy<\/a> (ankle).<\/p>\n<p>Here are the top plays from Sunday, and be sure to keep checking back once the afternoon games and &#8220;Sunday Night Football&#8221; kick off.<\/p>\n<p>Week 3 highlights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL NationSep 22, 2025, 03:05 AM CloseNFL Nation is made up of 32 team-specific reporters who cover the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-159251","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\/159251","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=159251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}