Justin Herbert’s magnificent start to the season has hit new heights, and the Chargers are 3-0 this season \u2026 and already 3-0 against the AFC West. Herbert led back-to-back scoring drives late \u2014 the first capped by a tremendous touchdown pass to Keenan Allen, the second capped by Cameron Dicker’s game-winning field goal \u2014 as the Chargers rallied past the Broncos 23-20.<\/p>\n
Los Angeles is the first team to start 3-0 with all three wins in division play since the 2006 Bears.<\/p>\n
The Chargers led 10-0 in the second quarter after Omarion Hampton’s first career NFL touchdown. The rookie first rounder powered in from 3 yards put just after his fellow running back, Najee Harris, suffered what appeared to be a serious, non-contact ankle injury.<\/p>\n
Finally, the Broncos got things going on their penultimate drive of the half. Facing a fourth and 2 near midfield, Sean Payton called a timeout and drew up a deep ball to Courtland Sutton. The Chargers blowing the coverage \u2014 it appeared like a miscommunication \u2014 made it an easy pitch and catch, and Nix made no mistake this time for a 52-yard score.<\/p>\n
That kicked off what was a tremendous stretch sandwiching halftime for the Broncos. Down 10-7 at halftime, Denver got the ball, and JK Dobbins ripped off a 41-yard rush. Two plays later, he made another highlight-reel play, catching a backward Bo Nix pass and avoiding multiple would-be tacklers en route to a 19-yard touchdown.<\/p>\n
Derius Davis then fumbled the following kickoff return, and a Wil Lutz field goal made it 17-10, Broncos, with all 17 points having been scored in a five-minute span.<\/p>\n
Herbert and Dicker, however would prove the heroes. Halfway through the fourth quarter, he shook off a pass rusher and found Allen for a touchdown, the veteran wide receiver working back to the ball and reeling it in. Then, after Los Angeles forced a three and out, Herbert led the Chargers to the Denver 25, and Cameron Dicker nailed a 43-yard field goal as time expired.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Justin Herbert’s magnificent start to the season has hit new heights, and the Chargers are 3-0 this season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,5366,86069,17470,106118,106120,106119,106121,1256,24606,3052,593,85],"class_list":["post-159817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-broncos","tag-cameron-dicker","tag-chargers","tag-chargers-vs-broncos","tag-chargers-vs-broncos-result","tag-chargers-vs-broncos-score","tag-chargers-vs-broncos-takeaways","tag-denver-broncos","tag-justin-herbert","tag-los-angeles-chargers","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159817","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=159817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}