{"id":161582,"date":"2025-09-22T18:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T18:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/161582\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T18:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T18:19:08","slug":"nfl-week-3-himmy-award-williams-rodgers-herbert-or-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/161582\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 3 ‘Himmy’ Award: Williams, Rodgers, Herbert or Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"

NFL Week 3 brought record-chasing stat lines and career highs that flipped nail-biters into comebacks and blowouts.<\/p>\n

But only one player can be “him.”<\/p>\n

Editor’s Picks<\/p>\n

2 Related<\/p>\n

Ahead of this week’s “Monday Night Football” showdown with the Baltimore Ravens<\/a> hosting the Detroit Lions<\/a>, it’s time to decide who earned the honor on Sunday.<\/p>\n

This week’s nominees for ESPN’s “HIMMY” Award are:<\/p>\n

Already made up your mind? Cast your vote below. Need a refresher first? Keep reading for each candidate’s case, then make it official.<\/p>\n

ESPN Research contributed to this story.<\/p>\n

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Stats to know: 19-of-28, 298 yards, 4 TDs<\/p>\n

Williams matched his career high with four touchdown passes as Chicago beat the Dallas Cowboys<\/a> 31-14, giving Ben Johnson his first win as an NFL head coach. Williams also posted a personal best 142.6 passer rating. After absorbing an NFL-high 68 sacks as a rookie and six more over the first two weeks, he wasn’t sacked at all in Week 3 — the first clean sheet of his pro career. By halftime, he had already thrown for 239 yards, the most he’s recorded in any half.<\/p>\n

Stats to know: 6 rec, 109 yards, 1 TD<\/p>\n

Held without a catch before halftime, Brown jumpstarted the Eagles’ second-half rally after they fell behind 26-7 against the Los Angeles Rams<\/a>. He went on to post his first 100-yard game of the season, finishing with six receptions for 109 yards and the 50th touchdown of his career. Two of his biggest grabs — a 25-yarder and a 23-yarder — both came on third-and-10, extending drives and keeping the comeback alive as Philadelphia beat the Rams 33-26 on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Stats to know: 2 FF, 1 FR, 1 INT, 2 TDs<\/p>\n

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A free agent pickup in his first season as a full-time starter, Rodgers authored a historic half for Minnesota. Per the team, he’s the first player in NFL history to score two defensive touchdowns and force two fumbles in a single game — and he did all of it before halftime.<\/p>\n

Rodgers opened with an 87-yard pick-six, later broke up an end-zone throw to Tee Higgins<\/a>, then after the two-minute warning punched the ball out of Noah Fant’s hands, recovered it and rumbled 67 yards for his second touchdown. On the Cincinnati Bengals<\/a>‘ next series, he forced another fumble — this time on Ja’Marr Chase<\/a> — which Jeff Okudah<\/a> recovered at the Vikings’ 48 and the offense soon converted into a Jordan Mason<\/a> 5-yard touchdown.<\/p>\n

Rodgers’ first half spree springboarded the Vikings to a 34-3 halftime lead that turned into a 48-10 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stats to know: 28-of-47, 300 yards, 1 TD<\/p>\n

After a shaky start with a few early misfires to Keenan Allen<\/a>, Herbert engineered the Chargers’ comeback: an 11-yard strike to Allen on 3rd-and-10, a 23-yard connection with Omarion Hampton<\/a> (23 yards), then a rolling left, back-pylon 20-yard touchdown to Allen with 2:44 left to tie it.<\/p>\n

Following Denver’s ensuing three-and-out, Herbert went 4-for-4 on the final march to set up Cameron Dicker<\/a>‘s 43-yard walk-off, sealing a 23-20 win and the Chargers’ first 3-0 start since 2002.<\/p>\n

Herbert finished the game as the youngest player ever to reach 2,000 career completions (27 years, 195 days) and the second-fastest to the mark (82 games). The game also marked three straight wins over AFC West foes to open the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NFL Week 3 brought record-chasing stat lines and career highs that flipped nail-biters into comebacks and blowouts. But…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-161582","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\/161582","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=161582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}