{"id":163622,"date":"2025-09-23T14:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T14:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/163622\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T14:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T14:06:08","slug":"nfl-week-3-awards-for-best-coach-rookie-players-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/163622\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 3 awards for Best Coach, Rookie, players, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">We\u2019re three weeks into the NFL season, and it\u2019s unclear if we\u2019ve gotten much closer to separating the wheat from the chaff in the league. Everything is still up in the air, but we has some absolutely stellar performances in Week 3 that deserve individual recognition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This week is really a case of picking out players who surprised, turning the corner for their teams in games that their team either didn\u2019t stand a chance in, or became the difference maker in a tight matchup. Here are our picls.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Best Coach of Week 3: Ben Johnson<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Week 3 was arguably the biggest test of Ben Johnson\u2019s brief head coaching career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Chicago Bears head coach passed that test with flying colors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">After being throttled by the Detroit Lions \u2014 Johnson\u2019s former team \u2014 52-21 in Week 2 the Bears were 0-2, and facing a host of questions. But the Bears bounced back in a big way Sunday against the Dallas Cowboys, dispatching the visitors by a final score of 31-14.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">But beyond all that, Caleb Williams played perhaps the best game of his career, connecting on 19-of-28 passes for 298 yards and four touchdowns. With Williams\u2019 development the biggest item on Johnson\u2019s to-do list this season, getting a much-needed win and a performance like that from his QB was a massive one-two from Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Best Rookie of Week 3: Mason Graham<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019s been really easy to overlook Graham playing on a mediocre Browns team, but this week against the Packers the rookie showed the potential he has on the Cleveland line, and the mayhem he can create alongside Myles Garrett.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Graham was an absolute difference maker. The state sheet might only show three tackles and 0.5 sacks, but his impact was absolutely ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This was the highest single game pass rush win rate by a defensive tackle this season, and it\u2019s not even close. Up to this point the season leader was Milton Williams of the Patriots in Week 2, and he had a win rate of 23%. It doesn\u2019t take a genius to work out that when you\u2019re almost DOUBLE the best player at your position leading up to that point then something is going very, very well.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Graham was a huge reason for the Packers win, and the sky is the limit for him.<\/p>\n<p>Best Offensive Player of Week 3: Caleb Williams<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This was the moment Bears fans were waiting for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The game where everything seemed to click for Caleb Williams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Everything did click for Williams on Sunday against the Cowboys, as he completed 19-of-28 passes for 298 yards and four touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In addition to the production, Ben Johnson was impressed with the operation he saw from the Chicago offense, and from Williams in particular.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cHe\u2019s doing a much better job getting us in and out of the huddle,\u201d said the Bears <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagobears.com\/news\/5-things-that-stood-out-to-ben-johnson-in-week-3-win-dallas-cowboys-caleb-williams-defense-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:head coach after the win;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">head coach after the win<\/a>. \u201cI thought we weren\u2019t as pressed on the [play] clock as maybe what we\u2019d been the first two games. We still have some room for improvement just in terms of our alignments and all being on the same page. I think there are a few plays we want back just as an entire unit that we didn\u2019t get off as clean as we wanted to from a procedure standpoint. But I do see growth there.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cAnd then in terms of the execution, he\u2019s getting a lot better, a lot more comfortable with his footwork, his repetitions, not just for the concepts that we\u2019ve been doing from the springtime to training camp, but we\u2019re putting in new ones each week. He\u2019s got a good system in place right now that he\u2019s adhering to and it\u2019s showing up on gameday where we\u2019re starting to reap some of the awards from that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Best Defensive Player of Week 3: Isaiah Rodgers<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">As we wrote on Sunday afternoon, Isaiah Rodgers almost beat the Cincinnati Bengals by himself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Yes, his Minnesota Vikings played a role, but in the first half alone Rodgers scored a pair of defensive touchdowns, first on a Pick Six of Jake Browning and later on a scoop-and-score, where he punched out the football from tight end Noah Fant and raced to the end zone with the ball to stake Minnesota to a 24-3 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Rodgers was not done, as he forced another Bengals\u2019 fumble moments later, separating Ja\u2019Marr Chase from the football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">When the game finally came to an end, Minnesota was on top by a final score of 48-10. Rodgers had a pair of touchdowns, two forced fumbles, and two passes broken up in the win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Along with the highly coveted honors he secured here.<\/p>\n<p>Best Special Teams Player of Week 3: Jordan Davis<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Sunday was filled with dramatic special teams moments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">But none was bigger than Jordan Davis blocking a game-winning field goal attempt, and returning the loose football for a touchdown to put an exclamation point on a stunning Philadelphia Eagles\u2019 comeback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In case you were wondering, Davis hit 18.59 miles per hour on the return:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Simply incredible.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>MVP of Week 3: Justin Herbert<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Los Angeles Chargers are 3-0 for the first time since 2002.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">To give that some context, Drew Brees was their starting quarterback that season, George W. Bush was in the Oval Office, and Schofield was finishing his final year of law school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Yes, it was a long time ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">But thanks to Sunday\u2019s comeback win, 23-20 over the Denver Broncos, the Chargers are undefeated through three games and sit atop the AFC West. And while Herbert struggled early in the game, in the face of Denver\u2019s imposing pass rush, he was near-perfect in the fourth quarter:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">That throw to Keenan Allen, coming with an expected completion probability of just 16.7%, was the standout moment. Not many quarterbacks in the NFL can complete that play, but Herbert delivered that moment late in the fourth quarter against one of the league\u2019s elite defenses.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, and the Chargers are also 3-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019re three weeks into the NFL season, and it\u2019s unclear if we\u2019ve gotten much closer to separating the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,4632,22816,5349,1268,1248,1252,6115,1234,1256,3055,40058,107936,55559,24606,85888,3052,31105,35193,1239,16820,593,10867,5348,1260,85,72552],"class_list":["post-163622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bears","tag-ben-johnson","tag-browns","tag-caleb-williams","tag-chicago-bears","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-cleveland","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-denver-broncos","tag-detroit-lions","tag-drew-brees","tag-isaiah-rodgers","tag-jake-browning","tag-justin-herbert","tag-keenan-allen","tag-los-angeles-chargers","tag-mason-graham","tag-milton-williams","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-myles-garrett","tag-nfl","tag-noah-fant","tag-patriots","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-sports","tag-the-packers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163622","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=163622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}